Covenant Album: “Dreams of a Cryotank”

Having listened to FLA, Delerium and Assemblage 23, I checked on the similar artists listing and came across Covenant and was intrigued by this name. I decided to purchase this CD through Amazon.com and was impressed by 'Dreams Of A Cryotank' which stirred pictures in my mind of sci-fic and fantasy ideas. And this music did not disappoint me at all. This is a quite long CD with 12 tracks. Track 11 is the extended song called 'Cryotank' and is a masterpiece of elusive industrial beats and sounds mixed with a slow beginning to a explosive end. Other songs to look out for on this momentous album are the songs; 'Shelter' that reminds me of nuclear disaster movies like 'Testament' and 'The Day After'. Another good song is the high tempo 'Wasteland' that should make it to dance lists if remixed properly fairly shortly. Also check out the bonus song on track 12 'Theremin Club Edit'now that's a dance song!

A good CD from Covenant from 1999.

I am relatively new to Covenant's music. I own "United States of Mind" and "Northern Light" besides "Dreams of a Cryotank". To be honest, "Northern Light" is probably my least favorite Covenant cd of the three I own. I consider "United States of Mind"and "Dreams of a Cryotank" to be vastly superior. I especially enjoy the aggressive sound on "Dreams of a Cryotank". The songs are not nearly as mellow as what I heard on "Northern Light". I especially enjoy the throbbing electronic beats of "Painamplifier" and the sampled vocals. The distorted vocals of Eskil Simonsson reminds on this song reminds me a bit like Ministry's AlJourgenson. I love "Theremin". It is the perfect song to kick off the album. I think Eskil sounds at the prime of his game on "Hardware Requiem". On "Dreams of a Cryotank", I didn't think Eskil sounded like anyone, namely Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan (like he did on "Northern Light"). "Dreams of a Cryotank" is what I was hoping that "Northern Light" would turn out to be but didn't. Still, Covenant is definitely becoming one of my favorite bands off the Metropolis Records label.

This was one of the first CDs I got of Covenant ( the other was Europa which came in a package that was a lot cheaper where I was than what Amazon has here )

Anyway what I'll say is that the sound is good even though the Cryotank track will have some people being impatient since it goes on for almost 26 minutes but it isn't bad - it's quite good really. Another thing is that the singer sounds like Phil Oakey of the Human League and it sometimes fun to think of the Human League Mk1 singing songs like these and Covenant singing the Human League`s back catalogue

This is, quite possibly the best release in EBM since Front 242's TYRANY FOR YOU. The music is hard edged, agressive, and very dancible. The vocals are deep and smooth(comparible to those of JL DeMEYER). This cd is the perfect introduction to the men that have taken Electronic music by storm.