Arson Cafe: Covenant - In Times Before the Light

Saturday, May 06, 2023

Covenant - In Times Before the Light

Covenant were wise to change their name into The Kovenant to separate the time they were unique and beautiful with the time they went completely off the rails.

I can't believe they also went on to pick this fine piece of work and slaughter its soul in 2002 with that horrendous re-recording.

Apart from that, one of the most amazing symphonic black metal albums from Norway and maybe generally, full of memorable tracks and great production exactly to fit its time and the perfect medieval cover.

Possibly overlooked, it's one of the classics of the late 90's and there's a few more around there that you might have also missed. [4.5/5]

Tracklist:

1. Towards the Crown of Nights

2. Dragonstorms

3. The Dark Conquest

4. From the Storm of Shadows

5. Night of the Blackwinds

6. The Chasm

7. Visions of a Lost Kingdom

8. Through the Eyes of the Raven

9. In Times Before the Light

10. Monarch of the Mighty Darkness

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Reckoning

From all the hills came screams. A piece of sky beside the crescent sun was detaching. It was a loosened circle of evening sky, suddenly lighted from the back. It was an abrupt black body out of nowhere; it was a flat disk; it was almost over the sun. That is when there were screams. At once this disk of sky slid over the sun like a lid. The sky snapped over the sun like a lens cover. The hatch in the brain slammed. Abruptly it was dark night, on the land and in the sky. In the night sky was a tiny ring of light. The hole where the sun belongs is very small. A thin ring of light marked its place. There was no sound. The eyes dried, the arteries drained, the lungs hushed. There was no world. We were the world’s dead people rotating and orbiting around and around, embedded in the planet’s crust, while the earth rolled down. Our minds were light-years distant, forgetful of almost everything.