Midnight announce album details and reveal new single

Old School Black Metal act Midnight have just revealed the details for the project's upcoming full-length album, which is to be titled "Let There Be Witchery", and scheduled for release on the 4th of March through Metal Blade Records. Leading up to the release, the label has now made the album's closing track "Szex Witchery" available for listening:

"Let There Be Witchery" will mark the project's fifth full-length album, and features the following tracklist:

1. Telepathic Nightmare
2. Frothing Foulness
3. In Sinful Secrecy
4. Nocturnal Molestation
5. More Torment
6. Let There Be Sodomy
7. Devil Virgin
8. Snake Obsession
9. Villainy Wretched Villainy
10. Szex Witchery

The label commented briefly on the album's development process:

The title is a combination of the song titles "Let There Be Sodomy" and "Szex Witchery", Athenar wanting to maintain the tradition of using six syllables. Lyrically, the record is "unfiltered savage animalisticness", and the deeper the listener delves, the dirtier they get, which is just the way it should be.

When it came to tracking the record, Athenar returned to Mercenary Studios in Cleveland, OH and producer Noah Buchanan, who makes it very easy for him to cut loose and make noise, choosing to once again record all the instruments himself despite having a live band that could step in and help out. "It’s still just me and my science project gone awry. I realize I’m musically handicapped, but there’s a charm to it."

Here's a closer look at the artwork, as designed by William Lacey, who also created the cover art for all four of Midnight's previous full-length albums:

The new album will be available in the following formats, with plenty of options for vinyl nerds:

• Jewelcase-CD
• 180g black vinyl (EU exclusive)
• Green marbled vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 666 copies)
• Indigo marbled vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 500 copies)
• Wine red marbled vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 400 copies)
• Violet marbled vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 300 copies)
• Clear lavender vinyl (Metal Blade Shop exclusive – limited to 200 copies)
• Clear lilac vinyl (High Roller Records exclusive – limited to 200 copies)
• Light grey marbled vinyl (Decibel exclusive – limited to 300 copies)
• Coke bottle clear vinyl (US exclusive)
• Purple / black blend vinyl (US exclusive)
• Clear / black haze vinyl (Band exclusive – limited to 200 copies)

Shortly after record release, the band will head out on the road with Mayhem and Watain for the "Sanguine Sodomy of North America" tour:

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Pre-orders are now available over at the Metal Blade Records store:

https://www.indiemerch.com/metalbladerecords/b/midnight