Members
Simply triad men keep around use at times ever participated within Covenant when members. Their list & contributions come when follows:

Joakim Montelius: Primary lyrics writer, music, keyboards, computers, & vocal noise. Clas Nachmanson: Keyboards, computers, & vocals. Eskil Simonsson: Main song writer, lyrics, lead vocals, keyboards, & computers.

A troika creative person characterize themselves musically when "explorers". [http://www.covenant.se/] It is as well conscious of fashion, often wearing business suits during stage performances and public appearances.

History
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, electronic music and several of its subgenres became the favorite music genre among European underground culture. It gained favor ab initio in major cities & finally trickled into a celibate's other socially secluded regions. This just released wave of music was found at different cases by a class action of immature friends residing among the shadows of Helsingborg, a scenic municipality in southern Sweden. Eskil Simonsson, Joakim Montelius, & Clas Nachmanson, trey teen using reciprocal, young curiosities for science, philosophy, and matters of existence, were enthralled by a unique presentation & the emotional content offered through the music, specifically by that of elastic like Kraftwerk, The Human League, and by EBM pioneers Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb.

A friends carried this fascination using the two to university life inside Lund, a municipality fabrication roughly L kilometres (32 miles) southeast of Helsingborg. Inside between their academic tries & discussions of worldly affairs, it assembled the little recording studio in Nachmanson's bedroom & began to experiment by owning their have musical compositions. Within 1989, a title "Covenant" was selected for the group—a title from either a unspoken, spiritual attach a trio professes to part.

When Covenant, a troika produced their number 1 publicly-freed track, "The Replicant", by invitation of Swedish record label Memento Materia. "The Replicant" was freed in the compilation album in 1992, and the track thrilled label executives, prompting the children to ask for a to the full album. Inside 1994, a class action compiled plenty songs to release a album, which became Dreams of a Cryotank. Dreams was easily received by critics & fans like, & by owning its profits, a boyhood friends decided to choose their musical efforts additional seriously. It upgraded & added additional devices, resettled their studio, & committed to tour.

Around 1995, Covenant performed at the festival inside Germany upon the asking of Off Beat Records. A band impressed Off Beat's attending A&R representative, who signed them to a record deal the following day. Excited per prospect of wide exposure, the crew eased farther out of their training pursuits & devoted themselves to completing a recently album, 1996's Sequencer.

"If Dreams of a Cryotank was impressive, then Sequencer is the band's definitive breakthrough". [http://www.covenant.se/] Using Sequencer, a band sought to improve upon a weaknesses it noticed inside Dreams by combining sequencing, diverse melodies, and dominating lyrics. It became an instant classic among several observers, a few of whom with boldness declared it "the best electro album of the decade". [http://www.subspace.se/artist/covenant.asp#] Though such a claim is arguable, a album established Covenant as an influence in the EBM scene. It would last in to become re-freed the total of days throughout the world & remains the club favorite in numerous settings.

Late in the season, San Francisco-based 21st Century Records agreed to distribute Covenant's albums in the United States, expanding the band's email in the run. When effects, a class action created the Theremin EP around 1997 specifically for an Our contries release & began to assume tour dates throughout a United states of america & Canada.

A trio's third good-length album, Europa, debuted in 1998. Europa carried Covenant's aggressive, typically distorted brand of music into the beat-caused realm of synth pop, marking a beginning of a gradual evolution in the band's collective healthy.

Covenant spent 1999 touring, changing record labels, & on the preparation of a second album. Off Beat Records created Dependent Records, a freshly sublabel, to showcase a b& and more Off Beat creative person world health organization were popular in the European EBM market. Additionally, Covenant was signed by owning Subspace Records in Sweden, effectively ending their tenure by having Memento Materia. Meanwhile, 21st Century Records ceased operations, leading the tierce to locate a newly range in America using Metropolis Records. Shortly thenceforth, a band's number 1 3 albums & a Theremin EP were imported to a United states under the Metropolis label.

United States of Mind was released around 2000, & by owning it, Covenant's tendencies strayed farther into synth pop. The survive album, Synergism, was freed late in a month; it featured tracks from either the band's number one 4 albums played in concert. A class action continued by having 2002's Northern Light, which they portrayed when getting the other somber, colder healthy compared to to their earliest offerings. In another transition between labels, a European release of Northern Weak was handled by Sony Music's Ka2 division like than Dependant or even Subspace.

Presently, a band is finalizing its sixth studio album, Skyshaper, which is scheduled for release in January of 2006.

When it prove my point to develop music together, Montelius & Simonsson develop since taken higher home around more countries; Montelius lives inside Barcelona, Spain, and Simonsson lives in Berlin, Germany. Nachmanson remains within Helsingborg.

(Note: The elaborated account of the band's history may be observed at its [http://www.covenant.se/ website].)

Discography

Full-length albums
Dreams of a Cryotank (December 1994) Sequencer (May 1996; March 1997 - 2nd ed.; July 1999 - United states version) Europa (April 1998) United States of Mind (February 2000) Synergy (November 2000) Northern Light (August 2002) Skyshaper (n/a) Singles and EPs
Figurehead (October 1995) Stalker (December 1996) Theremin EP (1997) Final Human (February 1998) Euro EP (October 1998) ''It's Ok (November 1999) Tour De Click (December 1999) Dead Stars (February 2000) 500 Leiermann (February 2000) Travelog (February 2000) Call for A Ships To Port (August 2002) Bullet (January 2003)

Other Releases
United States of Mind Limited Box (February 2000) Synergy Limited Box (November 2000) Bullet'' DVD (January 2003)