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| 4.0 excellent | Alabaster Jones | March 16th 16 |
One of the pioneers of a more accessible and club-ready style of EBM, Covenant initially started with some pretty straightforward, yet very well executed, EBM tracks on their debut, Dreams Of A Cryotank. Though the sound is a dated for 1994, the danceable and engrossing beats, rich synths, and lyrics more akin to a cyberpunk outfit make the music here very enjoyable. It's much more apocalyptic than Covenant would ever be again, especially on tracks like "Shelter". The crown jewel of the record lies with the absolutely massive closer "Cryotank Expansion", a twenty-six minute masterpiece of tense, spacey ambient, slow-burning industrial build-ups, and a final, chorus-lead trudge with a swampy and heavy beat. Though they'd go on to have a much cleaner and refined sound, Dreams Of A Cryotank is an important listen in Covenant's discography, acting as their darkest record.
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| 4.0 excellent | y87arrow | June 1st 21 |
This is too underrated on here. What's not to like? The most songs have clever song structures, take Shipwreck for example, when you expect the 2nd chorus to come, the song just goes somewhere else for a whole minute before the 2nd chorus appears. Or Hardware Requiem, it builds and builds, gets really tense until the chorus finally appears.rAnd of course the 25 minute Cryotank Expansion, I love the icy cold ambient sounds, it never gets boring to me.
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| 3.0 good | NickLizard49 | January 21st 16 |
Musically, melodically, lyrically, etc it is a very good album; but is is too old for its age: it would have been an excellent album during the eighties, not in 1993. Anyway it is a concrete proof that Covenant really had something to say.
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| 3.0 good | katkac | March 12th 22 |
| 2.0 poor | pxdash | March 24th 14 |
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