Europa

Covenant | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 13, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Metropolis Records
• ASIN: B00000JKDV
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #212,367 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Electronic Brilliance, December 19, 2000

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Jason Mineo-Goggin "twotonfld" (North Reading, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Europa (Audio CD)

Covenant first and foremost are masters of the Electro genre. Their sonic textures and melodic creativity are well conceived and executed. Now on to this CD in general - Although it doesn't have my favorite Covenant song on it (Figurehead) - I have found it to be their most complete CD. The first 5 songs are very accessible and easy to get into while the latter part of the CD exhibits Covenant's more experimental side. That part takes time to grow on you, but it eventually does.

Covenant are masters of sonic distortion. The textures they create are nothing short of brilliant and I haven't heard another group like them.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best electronic/industrial CDs ever!, February 16, 2000

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J. Feinberg (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Europa (Audio CD)

I am not a fan at all of electronic/industrial/etc.. I like punk, some goth, and some metal. But this CD is phenomenal - it combines the best of industrial with the darkness of goth, intense lyrics, heavy music, and an all around feeling of depth. I suggest this CD to anyone who likes anything from Sisters of Mercy to Kmfdm and 20 other directions from there. How often do you find a CD where EVERY song is awesome!

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like Diamonds in the Ground, February 22, 2003

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TastyBabySyndrome "Matthew Lewis, author of M... ("Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Little Tendril Baseball Team, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Europa (Audio CD)

In a world where the humdrum sounds of voices without messages and music without meaning seems to mesh hand in hand with the tastes of the listening population, there are other things, diamonds buried beneath a fragile Earth, that many people either don't hear or simply fail to recognize. I'm not certain why that is or why messages with meaning find themselves slighted in this age of pop glamorization and industry fads, but one thing is for certain. We, the listeners, are forced to peer and prod at the scene more and more, scoping out the icons that birth nations of thoughts within their outstretched hands. In their early releases, Covenant can be found as one such band, giving many things that are unique to audiences trained to feast on the simplistic diets that other EBM acts have tried to force into people's minds. Its within their lyrical workings, their beats that seem to flow, and the way that their music meshes together that makes it such an impactual force, and something I find myself listening to years after the fact.

In Europa, many heartfelt spectrums are touched upon in the conveyance of that emotional rainbow, drawing forth beats bathed in the blood of hardship and pain, love and remembrance, and especially that manufactured in defiance. These are all set to beats that keep the body sounding off without a slowdown in their inner workings, and feeding the audience that cares nothing for the message behind the motivation. Still, for the people that do, there are other factors present as well. Within the contents of "Tension," there is a cry that tells you that you aren't alone in noticing that something is amiss in the social wreckage lying about you. In "Leviathan," one of my favored tracks listened herein, there is almost an account that states that everything runs in cycles, that kingdoms rise and crumble only to be born again. In "Walls of Sound," perhaps one the best songs I've heard in quite some time, there is a notation about how we are all diamonds in the ground simply waiting to be found but that we are captives in this wailing wall of sound. Still, this is only an inkling of what is contained herein.

If you want something that has the means to captivate the mind and make the body move within the same motions, I would suggest Covenant as a band worth looking into and Europa as a wonderful starting point for the inquisitive eye. It has a little bit of everything within its nature, all of its adornments leading toward one point in space that seems to define humanity and its social spectrum, and does so in quite an array of fashions. Recommended.