How the EP "Leviathan" already indicated that the present album, the EP title track and "Wolves of the Sea" includes pursuing Alestorm their line consistently: many evocative arrangements, great Mitgröhlfaktor and issues that still quite blatantly the Gore -Verbinski films ("The Curse of the Black Pearl" - "Black Sails at Midnight") are borrowed, around adventure, danger at sea and pirate romance. Also, the structure is similar to the previous album. You start with a catchy opener ("The Quest"), followed by a title that comes along epic, dramatic, easy even greater ("Leviathan", similar to "Captain Morgan's Revenge"). Then bring you one or two titles that keep the mood up to then scale back a bit ("To the End of Our Days" - "Nancy the Tavern Wench"), then to step on the gas right again and at the end it is paraphrased again: "And now all!"
It's true: Basically Alestorm only copy themselves and one often has the impression of having very similar already heard one way or another tune on the first work. But you also have expected nothing else from them, especially since the division that serve Alestorm, leaves little room for development and they've hit the nail with the debut album already so upside down that it would have been foolhardy even manifests for pirates, of which departing. But this is just the crux: As "Captain Morgan's Revenge" was overall just something fresh, unspent and innovative, I give "Black Sails at Midnight" 4.5 of 5 stars rounded up to. 5