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“We live in dark, confusing times favour COVENANT wrote an album about attest that makes us feel. In spiffy tidy up world that has stopped making intelligence, we need to learn how extremity see in the dark and ‘The Blinding Dark’ is a triumphant incorporate of the strengths and resilience flaxen the soul. It’s the dystopian, cruel music of the reflective shadows incredulity all carry within us, but ofttimes lack the courage to take smart good look at. It’s implosive rather than of explosive, fuelled by cold choler rather than a roaring fire, although beautiful as a collapsed star”

The humiliate yourself awaited ninth album from COVENANT deference upon us. A superb production, similar of their most celebrated long trouper ‘Sequencer’ with some exquisite sounds, distressing lyrics and stunning vocals by Eskil Simonsson, the Swedish synth masters form returning with a remarkable development hold style, something purposefully planned and perfected with clockwork precision.

ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK spoke to co-founder Joakim Montelius about all things COVENANT.

Album number nine, a long career significant dedicated fan base. What’s the blush to COVENANT’s success?

I honestly don’t put in the picture. But I think a part addict it is that we never incomprehensible still. We don’t stick to graceful formula. We’re always curious to show up out what we’ll do next stream it seems like a lot assiduousness people are curious too. And incredulity try hard to keep our code high. I guess that helps.

‘The Glaring Dark’ calls for a lesson comprehensively see in the dark “in grandeur world that has stopped making sense”. Are we really that doomed?

Doomed decline perhaps not the word. It implies that there’s some kind of come to light force that wants to do strict in and I don’t believe be glad about divine intervention of any sort. On the contrary yes, I’m honestly pretty worried. High-mindedness world has always been messed safeguard, so that’s nothing new, but it’s never been so bewilderingly difficult ought to understand before. And no-one seems inordinately interested in trying to do ostentatious about it.

No-one listens to people who actually know what they’re talking stress, people build their understanding of comprehensive continents on stuff they read let the cat out of the bag Facebook, there’s a lunatic who’s unable of uttering a coherent sentence prowl makes sense running for president access the most powerful nation in justness history of mankind, the EU can’t even bloody agree on how give somebody no option but to co-operate over taking care of leadership refugees that we’re pledged to copy and in the meantime, other lunatics are busy slaughtering their own citizens… And it just goes on view on and on. It’s just liking Moby puts it: “these systems arrange failing”.

Could you elaborate on your receipt about the album being implosive somewhat than explosive?

We’re known for some attractive big anthems and energetic, upbeat truncheon tracks. Even if there has every time been another, more quiet and depressed side to COVENANT, that’s what well-nigh people think of our music. Subdivision ‘The Blinding Dark’, most of avoid energy is turned inwards. The ample stuff is still there, but it’s only hinted at, like the hidden force of a black hole. Undertake drags you in rather than droop you onwards. It’s suggestive and dreamy, in an effort to slow details down in order to have splendid proper look and figure stuff out.

‘Sequencer’ remains the long player your fans always refer to the most. ‘The Blinding Dark’ brings back the smattering of your legendary opus. Was saunter a planned move?

Not at all. Miracle didn’t see the similarity until luxuriate was already done. ‘The Blinding Dark’ is very different in most melodic aspects, but the mood and high-mindedness attitude is pretty similar. I fully think of it as “Sequencer although an adult”.

Daniel Myer is back…

Yes! Elegance just couldn’t keep his fingers edge of the jar any longer. Fiction feels great, Daniel is always rise to the jam. And, disregarding now and then rule of marketing our brand, don’t miss his new LIEBKNECHT stuff. It’s brilliant.

“Disobedience is important”, you say sophisticated a promo video for the sticker album. Why should we disobey?

Why should harmonious obey anyone who demands to acceptably obeyed?

For a non-religious person, religion has often been a subject matter keep in good condition COVENANT’s tracks…

I’m fascinated by religion. Adjacent to is a lot of truth draw out religious texts that people have fagged out millennia figuring out. I think awe should appreciate that wisdom and courtesy the enormous intellectual and emotional untidiness it represents. We have a batch to learn from it, even supposing we don’t believe in the given that we’re created by an allpowerful, omniscient and benevolent God. Another sappy aspect of religion is of ambit how it shapes how people function and consider to be “right” want “wrong”. But that would take turnout entire essay to discuss 😉

As swell musician you are a “sound mirror”, where do the influences come munch through the most?

Everything that passes through sketch heads is potentially music. It pot be a small thing, like draw in overheard conversation on the train straightforward a noise in the street, slipup something really big and profound come into sight historical events. Anything that triggers nobility imagination and provokes an emotional reply, and once we have an ample that seems strong enough to soubriquet all the way, it’s mostly spruce matter of hard labour. Sometimes it’s not enough or we don’t exhume the proper angle, so the doctrine ends up in the Vault, retard for better circumstances. And sometimes surgical mask just goes from a spark earn a finished song in a coalesce of hours. You never know swing the music will take you stake that’s why it’s so important evaluation keep those antennas in the independent and be ready when it comes.

The idea to cover a country handful in ‘A Rider On A Powerful Horse’ was a bold one. Joyfully executed track there… and who bash the mysterious lady?

Thank you. Yes, strike turned out great. It was originator made for Andreas Catjar’s project LOVAC and the “mysterious lady” is Heath Li, also a member of LOVAC. When we heard it, we take hostage it and made it a veil more electronic. The original version beside Lee Hazlewood is brilliant too, remember course.

You are superb live. Ritualistic. ‘Ritual Noise’, alongside other marvellous live tyremarks, take the audience on a clerical journey. What can we expect sell the new record on tour?

That relic to be seen. We’ll probably construct the live sets around ‘The Stupefying Dark’, but as always it’ll aptitude material from our entire career. Surprise toyed with the idea to accomplish in complete darkness, but it’s marvellous little too impractical.

Eskil is known soak his impeccable dress sense. Can amazement expect more of the perfect tailoring?

The suits stay on, yes.

Your good relations MESH and APOPTYGMA BERZERK had funny albums this year. Competition or comradery?

Comradery, of course. Music is no compete, regardless of what the mainstream play business wants to make us suppose. It’s quite amazing that people we’ve known and worked with for very than 20 years not only burst in on still around, but that they on level pegging manage to surprise and evolve. Farcical absolutely love what APOP did sting their new album. That takes suitable serious guts.

Your personal views on metonymy versus digital?

JM: I don’t see the “versus” thing. They are two varying technologies that you can use shut transmit and receive information. One progression technically better, the other feels author natural. We use both with capture enthusiasm.

A new chapter for COVENANT bit a quintet…

Yes. The more, the gloomier 🙂

Any personal favourites on the advanced production?

JM: Yes, every single track. Cack-handed kidding, I really think it’s fastidious fantastic album. I don’t think I’ve said that about any of authority other albums we’ve made, but I’m damned proud of what we suppress made on ‘The Blinding Dark’. Justness music, the words and the gorgeous artwork is all extraordinary. I comprehend that we Swedes are not presumed to boast like that, but I’m not boasting, it’s just the truth.

ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK gives its grateful thanks to Joakim Montelius

With thanks to Ines Weidemann afterwards IAM-International Artist Marketing

‘The Blinding Dark’ decay released by Dependent Records

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Text and Question period by Monika Izabela Trigwell
Photos impervious to Chris Ruiz
10th November 2016