Fear, Emptiness, Decibel: Stream Midnight’s Cover of “Too Loud (for the Crowd)” by Venom
Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel. Here’s managing editor Andrew Bonazelli…
“Don’t fuck with us / we were the first.”
If any band has a right to boast that, it’s Venom, the sloppy speed metal warriors who mainstreamed the term “black metal” without really playing much of it at all. The funny thing is, Venom didn’t say that—not exactly, at least. In “Too Loud (for the Crowd),” off 1985’s Possessed, Conrad Thomas “Cronos” Lant slurs, “don’t dictate to us / we were the first.” It’s Cleveland’s finest hooded hellions Midnight who alter it to “fuck,” manhandling “Too Loud” as only they can on their Flexi Series debut in September’s Decibel. Cocky bastards, right? And this was before LeBron came back.
If you’re unfamiliar with Midnight, you can start with Sean Frasier’s eight-star review of their sophomore full-length No Mercy for Mayhem (which leads off the September reviews section), but to us, the thing that makes the hooded Cleveland hellions so cool is that they didn’t elect to cover a Venom song from either of their two notorious Decibel Hall of Fame inductees (Welcome to Hell or Black Metal), instead going for a relatively deep cut that closes album number four. Hell, I’m so excited about it, I just puked out an 80-word sentence. Anyway, take a listen here:
As usual, this rager will only rear its deformed head in the Flexi Series, not on No Mercy for Mayhem. There are an extremely limited number of issues containing the flexi available for order here in Decibel’s webstore. Move on it now, or regret it forever.
The September 2014 issue of Decibel also features Pallbearer, Mastodon, Crowbar, and can be purchased here… but why not just get a full subscription to ensure that you never miss an issue?
