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hmm.... let me try to explain it in a few simple words...:

great music!!!!!!!
wonderful lyrics!!!!!!!!!!!
eskil`s beautiful voice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
excellent musicians!!!!!!!
fantastic liveshows!!!!!!


and the guys are soooooooooo nice and wonderful!!!!!

i love them very, very much!!!!!!!!!
covenant is my passion...

hey, there´s nothing more to say

you asked why i like covenant and the answer is simple music that never gets boring to listen to no matter how many times i play the cd and lyrics that make me think even after hearing them again and again...

niki

I just had an argument with an old friend of mine the other night about this, and he was trying to say that Covenant was boring and poorly produced...blah blah blah. I took this personally and he regretted it dammit!!
I guess the main reasons why I love Covenant have already been posted above. They have evolved with every album and their music is a relief from many artists that are popular in electronic music today. Besides the fact that they have a wonderful show!! I love them!!!

hi you all, i'm new .*waves* i usually post on weltfunk.

the reason why i love covenant is that they were the first band that i heard within the electro/industrial/ synthiepop/futurepop genre that i could really identify by sound. i feel that covenant does have a sound that is a little bit of a reference to kraftwerk but they still sound completely different than everyone else in the electronic genre; everything new sounds so refreshing. i find new meanings in the lyrics all the time. and the music is always great in clubs. i think that the first cov song i heard was 'go film' it really sets a certain mood in a club. wonderful.

and another reason i love covenant is that they played a show for me on my birthday. okay, not really me as for like 400 + other people in boston, but, it was on my birthday...i can look at it however i want!

VA

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hi you all, i'm new .*waves* i usually post on weltfunk.

and another reason i love covenant is that they played a show for me on my birthday. okay, not really me as for like 400 + other people in boston, but, it was on my birthday...i can look at it however i want!

VA

hi midorigrrrl,

welcome to our forum!!

well... i think that was a very nice "birthday-present", wasn`t it!!??

have a great time here and a lot of fun!!

best regards,

sandra

Hi all !
I'm a new member, and a new fan of Covenant from Hungary. I don't want to boring you, but, I need to tell you my (maybe common) story.
I never heard anything about Covenant till spring of this year. I saw a Dance Chart in MTVpop, and when I was seeing the actual dance hits, I heard something strange, something special, something what I waited for till that time: that was the Call the ships to port video. My chin was somewhere at "the level of the grass"... I didn't imagined why is that fantastic music is just at the place of 33th. All in all, when I ask my friend to burn a CD, I wrote him to search some Covenant tracks, of course Call the ships to port, and some random choose from the latest album Northern light. He wrote me Bullet, Invisible&Silent, Winter comes, and also Atom heart. That was the last drop in the glass, I've fallen to the world of Covenant for ever. I order the first 2 album in an online shop. When I heard Dreams of a Cryotank first time, I was a little disappointed. But when I listened it more times, I started to love it, and now that is one of my favourite albums. The Sequencer sounded better at first time, but I think the Cryotank is better. Now I'm on the hunt to the other albums, unfortunately it is very difficult to find them here in Hungary.

So, why I like their sound: first of all, generally the fantastic electric music, what brought up to heavenly floor by Eskil's fantastic voice, and the best lyrics what I ever read.

Anyway my absolute favourite is Shelter.

Thank you for your time, ciao.

hi otherwise,

welcome to our forum!!
nice to have you here!!

you don`t bore us with this story... i think it`s very interesting!!
and i hope you`ll be successful in search of the other albums!!!!! i`ll keep my fingers crossed!!!

so, have a great time here with us!!

best regards,

sandra

this is in reply to the person from hungary who is looking for covenant cds... try metropolis records in the US... they usually have a good selection of current techno and EBM and they put out a killer sampler cd each year in conjuction with hot topic retail stores... welcome to the forum... good to see more english speakers (writers)

Seems that the forum goes international now :perfekt:

Thank you all for the replies, you are great! :perfekt:
I have a -maybe dense- question to -rather- german members (mostly to Covenantgirl): the online german recordshops, for example amazon.de, are only deliver only inside Germany, or they can deliver international ? And in other hand: VISA or other bank-card is needed, or the postal-addresse is enough ? Sorry for my poor knowledge about this.

Some other thoughts about Covenant, exactly the lyrics. (I'm encouraged )
When I have heard the Call the ships to port first time, the vocal made the biggest impact in me. I didn't understand it clearly, my english wasn't/isn't good enought, but it was very interesting, it was unique among the meanless euro-trance hits, with their vokals about great nothings. So, I searched for the whole lyras of Call the ships, and of the other songs I mentioned in my last post. I found the official site, and all the lyrics. I started to read them, and a great deal of time later I had to realized that I haven't stopped the reading... They have got unbelievable value, as the greatest poets' poems. Moreover, better, because I feel that the things that Covenant try to tell us, is very close to me. The loneliness, feeling of being lost, the lack of purpose, the meanless existence... My soul is screaming for a meaning but the only answer I will ever get... So I found my deepest thoughts in Covenant's lyrics. The naked truth.
About a year ago my penfriend asked me: why is that everything what are serious, are sad ? I couldn't give her the answer. But now I think that the answer is in us: the human race is sad and lonely generally. We are the only evil animals, and we are born lost. Sorry for my dark thoughts, but I think that most of the cheerful happy stuffs what can be seen around us, are rotten inside. But we can always find a little glimmering light somewhere what helps us. Our northern light....

oh, it will better if I stop now, before this post went to a depressed kitsch philosophical essay...

thanx your time again

Hi!

Try www.indietective.de to order Music. They diliver not only in Germany:

Foreign Countries
Deliveries to foreign countries only by advance payment. For freightcharges we have to add 8,00 EUR (Europe) or ca. 20,00 EUR (Non-Europe). Please wait for your proforma-invoice and pay only by Eurocheque, International Money Order or wiretransfer to our account. If you are in hurry, send with your order a blank Eurocheque, so we can enter the right amount!

NEW! Deliveries inside Europe can also be send by Cash On Delivery (Nachnahme). The total costs are ca. 13,00 EUR + a "country own" fee. It's the fastest and easiest solution.

NEW! We accept now the following credit-cards: Eurocard/Mastercard and Visa. Please send us your credit-card number via email with the orderform (SSL-encoded transmission!) or seperate by fax (0049-511-734117). The freightcharges are 10,00 EUR inside Europe and 23,00 EUR for the rest of the world.


... Hope this helps

Dani

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Thank you all for the replies, you are great! :perfekt:
I have a -maybe dense- question to -rather- german members (mostly to Covenantgirl): the online german recordshops, for example amazon.de, are only deliver only inside Germany, or they can deliver international ? And in other hand: VISA or other bank-card is needed, or the postal-addresse is enough ? Sorry for my poor knowledge about this.

hi otherwise,

hmm... i really don`t know if amazon.de or other german online-shops deliver international... sorry...
but try what dani has suggested ( thanx sweety!! ): www.indietective.de
i haven`t thought about that...
i think it will be so much easier... also with the payment!! :-]

regards,
sandra

Thank you very much for your advices, this is the page what I have looking for!
One other question, maybe you can help me: are there any URL where I can download the Bullet and/or the Call the ships to port video ? I know that I can get them from the offical page, but they are just little .wmv files, the enjoyable playsize is like a stamp. Are they available anywhere in better quality ?

Thank you, best regards!

hmm.... you can try it from thomas`s page: http://www.plastiq-flowers.de
but it is feared that you`ll have the same problems with the quality...
( thomas, correct me if i`m wrong... )

I imagine that there is no direct link to download the videos. but I know the you can find them in the edonkey network or Soulseek (p2p) as mpg-files.

Dani

Thanx your advices again!
I found an interview with Joakim: http://www.elektrauma.de/interviewanzeig…erviewNummer=43

Perhaps you all know it, but I haven't seen any links to this one in the official page, or plastiq-flowers.de.

Otherwise

Great music, great lyrics, original in their sound and true legends in the making or even right now in electronic music.

Hi to everyone in this forum... I'm known as mike waters in the Weltfunk forum.

My german isn't so great ( Ich spreche ein bisschen... something like that ), I took some lessons a couple years back so I'll try to catch up!

Well i think you guys/gals has said it allready, it´s the music in combination with excellent lyrics, the variation between the more upbeat and mellow tunes... guess one could go on and on about this

cheers Jen