Artist description Here You can download ALL mp3's from their album "ANIMATRONIC"

Music Style Millenium Black Metal

Similar Artists Samael, Dimmu Borgir, Satyricon, Arcturus, Mayhem, Immortal, Children of Bodom

Artist History It all begun in 1992, Nagash and Blackheart started to put together low budgetdemos, which resulted in the first album In times before the lightin 1995.The music was atmospheric Black Metal with lots of melodies. But I thinkthe production was poor on that album. They got the reputation of being the mostprominent act in the norwegian metal scene. Unfortunately, at the time theirrecord label did not see the greatness in their music . The album was not officiallyreleased until early 1997 on a small record company called Mordgrimm (in england).Nagash and Blackheart had greater visions for their music, they now recruitedthree new members to form a band. Hellhammer (from Mayhem) on drums, Astennu(from Carpe Tenebrum and Dimmu Borgir) on 2nd Guitar and Sverd (from Arcturus)on Keyboards. In addition they also hired Sara Jezebel Deva (from Therion andCradle of Filth) on Starsong for the next album, the now classic albumNexus Polaris in 1998 (on Nuclear Blast) ,A masterpiece, a brilliantperformance in musicianship. The album was filled with progressive dark pulsingatmospheric metal. As Blackheart described their music; Progressive SpaceMetal, he couldnґt be more right. This is the one you should buy. Inaddition, itґs got the most beautiful cover in the music history, by AndreasMarshall.Nexus Polaris became a hit, sold over 15000 copies only in the first week whenit was released in February 1998. They followed up with a two week promotiontour, where they found themselves one of the biggest bands in the extreme metalscene. They also appeared on the Norwegian national TV with their six-episodetour documentary. They where now ready to rule the world.Unfortunately, Sverd had to part from the band, due to some personal problemsand musical differences with the other guys in the band, at the time. They hireda keyboard player (a session musician) and followed up their success. They didsome summer festivals and ended the tour in a bombastic way, headlining theIilosaari Rock Festival in Finland in front of 20000 people. Nagash now leftDimmu Borgir to concentrate on Covenant full time.Now, they started to work on new material for their upcoming album. During theirwork they found themselves nominated for a Grammy in Norway, for the besthardrock album of the year. They did not only attend the Grammy TV Show,they also won the Grammy, as the first extreme metal band ever.During the work of their next album they where standing infront of a law suiteaccording to the name of the band. There is a swedish electronic/synth bandcalled Covenant so they where forged to change the spelling of thename to Kovenant. With the new name and new musicaldirection, they parted with Astennu, who wanted to concentrate on Dimmu Borgirat that time and fired Sara Jezebel Deva. With all the new things to the bandthey decided to go all the way. Spelling KOVENANT, a new logo and even changedtheir own names too; Lex Icon (Nagash), Psy Coma (Blackheart), Von Blomberg (Hellhammer). The new album took three month to record, Prophecies Of Fire was theworking title of the album. Then they finally released the most uniqealbum they ever recorded - ANIMATRONIC in October 1999. The album isan amazing sounding album, with a very strong sound and full of creativity.Their old sound from the black metal days are still there but mixed with theindustrial sounds of today.The magic of The Kovenant takes the music further, into thenext millenium. Kovenant is the future......A new guitarist, Angel, joined the band before the US tour 2000.During May 2000 they completed their first US tour successfully,and with the new member, they headed for the european market with festivals anda tour in October with huge success. They are now preparing for the next album.

Group Members Lex Icon - Bass&Vocals; Psy Coma - Guitars; Angel - Guitars; Von Blomberg - Drums&Programming

Albums In Times Before The Light, Nexus Polaris, Animatronic, Nexus Polaris 2000

Location Oslo, Olso - Norway

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