[Cover photo credit to Dave Brodsky/My Good Eye Visuals]

Cleveland Metal band Midnight have announced upcoming covers album Steel, Rust And Disgust arriving on May 23rd, 2025 via Metal Blade Records.

The Steel, Rust And Disgust collection follows last year’s Hellish Expectations album and features ten unique cover tracks alongside two new cuts.

Athenar comments:

The idea to record an album of all cover jams with a certain theme is nothing quite new. The original title for this album was gonna be Throw Ups as an homage to the David Bowie’s Pin Ups album, also of covers. Although Throw Ups is only two syllables and I need six. I guess I could’ve called it Throw Downs Throw Outs Throw Ups, but that would be just fucking stupid.

I just wanted to record some songs by bands who shared the same sights, sounds, and sewage of my region of birth. Some of these tunes you may have heard, some you may have not. So please, do yourself a favor and check out the original versions… if you want to transform into a total fucking slimebag that is!

In advance of the record’s official release, Midnight have released the original track, “Cleveland Metal.”

Notes Athenar:

‘Cleveland’ and ‘metal.’ Those two words flow together like molten steel. This title was directly taken from a compilation album of the same name released in 1983 on Clubside Records, pre Auburn Records. The song was written as an erotic love letter to the cursed city whence I was thrusted upon and its fellow inhabitants of subhumans.

Steel, Rust And Disgust Track Listing:
01. Cleveland Metal
02. Iron Beast (Kratos cover)
03. I’m Insane (Synastryche cover)
04. Final Solution (Rocket From The Tombs cover)
05. Frenzy (Screamin’ Jay Hawkins cover)
06. Child Eaters (Rubber City Rebels cover)
07. 3rd Generation Nation (Dead Boys cover)
08. Rock N’ Roll Fever (David Allan Coe cover)
09. Carrions Keep (False Hope cover)
10. Black Leather Rock (Electric Eels cover)
11. Steel, Rust And Disgust
12. Agitated (Electric Eels cover)