SETI (album)
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| Studio album by The Kovenant | ||||
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Publication |
April 2003 |
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admission |
May to October 2002 |
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| Label (s) | Nuclear Blast | |||
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Title (number) |
14th |
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running time |
67:34 |
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Dan Diamond |
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Studio (s) |
Woodhouse Studios, Hagen |
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SETI (also SETI ) is the fourth and so far last studio album by the Norwegian metal band The Kovenant . It was released by Nuclear Blast in 2003 . The title stands for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence .
Creation and publication
After Animatronic , the band went on tour in the USA with Audun “Angel” Stengel from Apoptygma Berzerk as live guitarist in spring 2000, and The Kovenant toured Europe in the summer and autumn of that year. Before Lex Icon and Psy Coma started working on a new album, they remixed their debut album In Times Before the Light , which was released in 2002 on Hammerheart Records . The new album SETI (working title Cybertrash ) was recorded again in 2002 at the Hagen Woodhouse Studios. Jan Kazda and Siggi Bemm took part as session bassists, Erik Ljungren as sound designer . SETI was produced by Dan Diamond, mixed by him and Siggi Bemm and also mastered by the latter.
Track list
- Cybertrash - 5:57
- Planet of the Apes - 4:04
- Star by Star - 4:25
- Via Negativa - 5:59
- Stillborn Universe - 5:23
- Acid Theater - 4:10
- The Perfect End - 6:50
- Neon - 5:46
- Keepers of the Garden - 5:50
- Mime - 6:23
- Hollow Earth - 5:44
- Industrial Twilight - 7:02
- Subtopia - 5:30
- The Memory Remains - 4:33 ( Metallica Cover)
style
The Kovenant continue on the path they started with animatronic and add even more electro elements to their style with many effects and samples , even if the industrial influences have become less and the drum rhythms more varied again. Lex Icon hardly screeches anymore, he sings mostly with an almost clear voice; Eileen Küppers is singing like an opera again. There are melodic-catchy, bombastic-theatrical, poppy and danceable passages that are mostly medium tempo. The album sounds “like a successful hybrid of Zeromancer , Marilyn Manson , Die Krupps and Samael . Sawing riffs meet pulsating samples and female opera voices and mix into futuristic space metal with a strong electro punch. ”Comparisons to Rammstein were also drawn, but the album“ consistently refuses to categorize itself too clearly ”.
reception
The album received mixed to positive reviews. David Gregori from metal.de thinks it is "too mid-tempo-heavy and poppy" and a "very double-edged sword [...] that will polarize even more than the Norwegian albums have already done so far." Robert Müller from Metal Hammer praised SETI for its “skilfully trashy staging” and “some extremely successful songs”, but also criticized a “certain experimental arbitrariness”. Captain Chaos from vampster thinks that the album is “thought through from front to back” and that the band “packed everything in creativity that was possible”. On the other hand, he criticizes “that some songs can drag on because of their length.” Conny Schiffbauer from Rock Hard sums up: “'Seti' convinces with mature, detailed song arrangements, an idiosyncratic stylistic sound mix, and incredibly danceable catchy tunes and more musical class than ever before. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Biography , accessed February 16, 2013.
- ↑ a b Conny Schiffbauer: The Kovenant. Seti , Rock Hard # 191, accessed February 16, 2013.
- ↑ a b Captain Chaos: The Kovenant: SETI , vampster , accessed February 16, 2013.
- ^ A b Robert Müller: The Kovenant - SETI , Metal Hammer 04/2003, accessed on February 16, 2013.
- ↑ David Gregori: The Kovenant - Listening Session on “SETI” ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , metal.de , accessed on February 16, 2013.
