Seti

Kovenant, The Kovenant | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 8, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nuclear Blast Americ
• ASIN: B00006L71U
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #299,235 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cybertrash

2. Planet Of The Apes

3. Star By Star

4. Via Negativa

5. Stillborn Universe

6. Acid Theatre

7. Perfect End

8. Neon

9. Keepers Of The Garden

10. Phantomime

11. Hollow Earth

12. Industrial Twilight

Editorial Reviews

2003 album featuring members/former members of Dimmu Borgir, Mayhem, & Arcturus. Includes two bonus tracks, 'Subtopia' & 'The Memory Remains'. Nuclear Blast.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chasing stars one riff at a time, March 24, 2006

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C. M. Gillum (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seti (Audio CD)

If you are expecting brutally heavy Black Metal or Industrial-ish Death Metal your barking up the wrong tree. If your looking for Sci-Fi based Industrial Metal then this album will most likely please you. The Kovenent have long been away from their Black Metal roots and though now and then a faster riff or more complex drumming lines occur thats about as close as it gets. Lex the vocalist of Kovenant normally sticks to a clean deeper tone through out S.E.T.I. but oftenly changes over to a high pitched growl similar to that of old Cradle of Filth. The Guitarist and Keyboardist; Psy is an especially gifted musician. all of the tracks have amazing Keyboard & Programming arrangements done mainly by Psy, From Higher pitched echo'd out space like sounds to distorted Classical Piano arrangements. Many people are supprized to find out that whom is considered to be one of Metal's greatest drummers Von Blomberg A.K.A. Hellhammer sits behind the kit for Kovenant. The beats this guy puts down are amazing and oftenly he uses Synth Pads to make some interesting tones but oftenly he just plays the classic kit and supprizing he's so good that he makes it sound excellent with the Industrial/Electronica arrangements. This is not for everyone, But alot of people can enjoy this and many do.


<-FAVOURITE-TRACKS->

-Cybertrash
-Stillborn Universe
-Acid Theater
-The Perfect End
-Keepers of the Garden


<-THE-BAND->

- Vocals & FX <> Lex Icon -

- Guitars, Keyboards & Programming <> Psy Coma -

- Drums & Percussion <> Von 'Hellhammer' Blomberg


(-ADDITIONAL-PERSONNEL-)

- Live Guitarist <> Angel

- Programming & Sound Design <> Erik Ljungren

- Bass Guitars <> Jan Kazda

- Soprano Vocals <> Eileen Kupper

- Additional Bass <> Siggy Bemm


<-OTHER->

- Recorded: May - October 2002

- Released: July 2003

- Label: Nuclear Blast GmbH

- Album Length: 1 hour 7 min. 34 sec.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh and inspiring!!, June 10, 2003

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Theobalt (Ioannina, Greece) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seti (Audio CD)

Not any more a black metal band. Combining electronic music with heavy metal and a goth atmosphere I believe that the result sounds great, fresh and kind of different from all the stereotypes we have. Only for people who want to hear something different and don't mind to expand their horizons to new roads. Heavy metal and electronic music sounds really great and nobody can blame the band for being commercial as the result is still underground!! Give it a try!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Many changes..., May 12, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Seti (Audio CD)

Lex Icon's singing is no longer in the lead of Danny Davey or Ihsahn. It's now very clean and it seems to come very close-too too close-to Jonathan Davis or Marilyn Manson. Some of the keyboards and female operatic vocals remain but the music has distanced itself from the Viking/Scandinavian essence, and is now a slow glam rock/goth pop style. A very similar change happened to Tiamat and the Gathering: Beginning as European death metal, line-up changes and progressive interests moved them to a sort of electronica/dark ambient rock.

"Star by Star" "Stillborn Universe", "Neon", "Keeper of the Gardens" and the fair Metallica cover "The Memory Remains" would be the standout, but the black metal is gone and I can't see the whole album fully appealing to anyone else but to fans of nu industrial "metal". Even this mass will be unpleased with the fact the album is not all that dark.

The best way to put it, a well-produced album that is accessible but nothing that hasn't been heard before. Three and a half stars. If you want something unique, get the gloomy Rammstein-meets-Cradle of Filth "Animatronic" by the Kovenant.