whats the story about this band? name change? mainstream? i'll check them out
They started as a two-man Norwegian symphonic Black Metal band called Covenant, and they released
In Times Before the Light, which is a rare classic. After that they picked up a few new members (Hellhammer, Sverd from Arcturus, Astennu from Dimmu), and recorded
Nexus Polaris, an album which was much more technical with lots of Dimmu and CoF influences (but it's actually really good imo).
After that, they were sued in court by a Swedish EBM band of the same name, so they agreed to chance their name from Covenant to The Kovenant.
The name change coincided with a new musical direction toward more gothic/industrial metal, after dropping Sverd and Astennu. They released
Animatronic which I still consider a great album, a good mix of gothic, industrial and black metal. It's a strange album in that it's not extreme enough for Black Metal fans but too extreme for Industrial/Gothic fans.
Later on they re-released
In Times Before the Light but with the tracks completely re-worked and overlaid with industrial and electronic effects, to turn it into a pure industrial black metal album.
Their most recent album was
SETI their worst by far as they have abandoned all traces of extreme metal and are pretty much pure industrial/gothic metal, and the album was lame, but not unlistenable.
They plan on released a double-disc album
Aria Galactica later this year, hopefully, in which they claim a return to their old glory. We'll see about that.
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