20. Midnight - Let There be Witchery

I have thrown around the terms “progressive” “intricate” and “expansive” a lot during this countdown. But sometimes there is an innate beauty to stark simplicity. Rock n’ roll is built on primal minimalism. It is not meant to be an ornate and meticulously manicured art form. It is an organic, cranial, and fundamental force, that has its roots in brutish austerity. 

Midnight strip out all the finery and fineness and take Metal back to core components. This is single-minded driving rock n’ roll. Crude and unsophisticated, it relies entirely on driving riffs and a pounding rhythm section. Motorhead were the lords and masters of rudimental and raucous rock n’ roll and you can hear their influence all the way through “Let There be Witchery”. It is a bewitchingly simple album that succeeds because it has so little to it. It is not trying to be anything but a hedonistic explosion of pulsating chords, but it is beautiful in its one-dimensional nature.