History Music / TheKovenant

* LighterAndSofter: The band has moved towards this over the years. Though ''SETI'' is by no means upbeat and cheerful on its own, compared to ''In Times Before the Light'' it is.
** In many ways the GenreShift makes it hard to quantify things. {{Industrial}} is hard/harsh in a completely different matter to BlackMetal. Most {{Industrial}} relies on very heavy, distorted drums but has a much slower pace, and BlackMetal drumming is much faster but each individual drum sound is usually significantly lighter to its {{Industrial}} equivalent. Both genres often use very harsh vocals, but these effects are accomplished in entirely different ways. So as such, calling IndustrialMetal LighterAndSofter relative to BlackMetal is in many respects an apples-and-oranges comparison. Additionally, The Kovenant were never the most violent BlackMetal band, they always used a very significant amount of lush melody.

* LastNoteHilarity: "Bizarre Cosmic Industries" is a very beautiful piece with a long piano solo and great female vocals from Sara Jezebel Deva, but for some inexplicable reason, they chose to end the song with a [[{{Narm}} rather silly]] "BOOOIIINNNGGG" sound.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: They were about a 9 for their first two albums; it varies by song on ''Animatronic'' but they've generally never been lower than a 6 on ''SETI''. But the GenreShift makes it harder to measure its hardness by the same standards.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Particularly with their first two albums, such as the tracks "Dragonstorm", "Dragonheart" and "Last of the Dragons". Some of the CD art for ''In Times Before the Light'' included a medieval-looking dragon painting.

Norwegian metal group The Kovenant, formed in 1992 by Stian Arnesen (aka Nagash, Lex Icon) and Amund Svensson (aka Blackheart, Psy Coma, Pzy Clone), was known simply as Covenant once, and even released their first two albums, ''In Times Before the Light'' in 1995 and ''Nexus Polaris'' in 1997, under the name. Trouble arose when an {{Industrial}} group also called Music/{{Covenant}} sued them and forced them to change their name. Ironically, The Kovenant changed its musical style from a Symphonic BlackMetal sound to a more electronically-influenced style (which the band called "Progressive Space Metal") shortly afterward with ''Animatronic'' in 1999, and they moved to a very IndustrialMetal-influenced sound with ''SETI'' in 2003. Along with the stylistic change, the content of their lyrics changed from being dark fantasy-based to being mainly about the negative traits of humanity and {{Religious Rant Song}}s. Songs about outer space began with ''Nexus Polaris'' and continued after the retool, but became less fantastical. Opinions differ on whether this was GrowingTheBeard or JumpingTheShark, depending on one's musical preferences.

* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: The Kovenant's version of "Space Man" by Babylon Zoo is quite a different take on the song.

Norwegian metal group The Kovenant, formed in 1992 by Stian Arnesen (aka Nagash, Lex Icon) and Amund Svensson (aka Blackheart, Psy Coma, Pzy Clone), was known simply as Covenant once, and even released their first two albums, ''In Times Before the Light'' in 1995 and ''Nexus Polaris'' in 1997, under the name. Trouble arose when an {{Industrial}} group also called Music/{{Covenant}} sued them and forced them to change their name. Ironically, The Kovenant changed its musical style from a Symphonic BlackMetal sound to a more electronically-influenced style (which the band called "Progressive Space Metal") shortly afterward with ''Animatronic'' in 1999, and they moved to a very IndustrialMetal-influenced sound with ''SETI'' in 2003. Opinions differ on whether this was GrowingTheBeard or JumpingTheShark, depending on one's musical preferences.

* ReligionRantSong: "Mirror's Paradise", "Neon", "Via Negativa"