The Kovenant is a Norwegian band formed in 1992 which has evolved from symp… Read Full Bio ↴The Kovenant is a Norwegian band formed in 1992 which has evolved from symphonic black metal to electronic / industrial metal on more recent albums, shaping the style that Lex Icon (aka Nagash, ex-Dimmu Borgir) and Psy Coma (in those days known as Blackheart) coined after the release of "Nexus Polaris": Progressive Space Metal. Originally the band was called Covenant, but due to a dispute with a Swedish futurepop band with the same name, it was later changed to The Kovenant.

The Kovenant (at the time known as Covenant) was formed in Hamar, Norway in 1992, by two black metal artists known as Nagash and Blackheart. After releasing a demo titled "From the Storm of Shadows", and gaining some underground recognition, Not long after the band got several offers for record contracts. The original "In Times Before the Light" was released in 1996 on Mordgrimm (underground British label dedicated to black metal), this album was created when they were both at a young age and they established a fan base in Norway.

In 1998 the band released their second album through Nuclear Blast, titled "Nexus Polaris". It marked a significant point in their sound's formation, the album featured less of the grim guitars, and had much more keyboards work than before. The album featured Nagash, Blackheart, Astennu (on the Guitars, who later joined Dimmu Borgir), Sverd (of Arcturus on the keyboards) and Hellhammer (of Mayhem, Arcturus and Dimmu Borgir) and Sarah Jezebel Deva on backing vocals (Cradle of Filth). The album has met good success in Norway and the band was nominated for the Norwegian Grammy Award, winning the Best Hard Rock Band category as the first band in history to win a Grammy Award for Black Metal.

In 1999 the band changed name to The Kovenant, recorded and released "Animatronic", it showed them going from symphonic black metal to industrial metal. With the change of the band name, the members decided to change their names as well to suit their new direction: Nagash became "Lex Icon", Blackheart became "Psy Coma", and Hellhammer became "Von Blomberg". They won another Norwegian Grammy Award and gained a new member while they toured the USA named Angel.

The band found themselves back in the studio in 2002 recording "S.E.T.I.", their fourth album. Deciding to do more touring Von Blomberg left the band to handle other projects. Two new members were recruited, Küth (of Ram-Zet) on drums and Brat (of Apoptygma Berzerk) on keyboards.

Now we continue waiting for their latest creation, Aria Galactica, announced in the early 2000's, to take shape. In 2007, Psy Coma described Aria Galactica to an Italian web site as "technical", with more guitar solos, "much stronger" and different from SETI. The estimated release date would be Christmas. The wait continues in 2021.

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New World Order
The Kovenant Lyrics

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Stand aside for the new world order
Systematic, aristocratic
Don't deceive yourself get out of the way
We command and you obey

Beautiful to be the joker
Cursed by an all-to human future
Things you cannot defeat you start to believe in

New generations, synthetic nations

[Chorus]
I am you loving hate, this is the new world
I am you loving hate, this is the new world

Old-school fascism is on the rise

Narcissistic, evangelistic
So many things are only here to be hated
No need for love when the world is sedated
Beautiful to be the joker

Cursed by an all-to human future
The world burns with death as a lover
It's systematic for the coming new order

[Chorus]

World-wide genocide, mass religious suicide
Immoral seduction, digital corruption

[Chorus]

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of "New World Order" by The Kovenant seem to refer to a dystopian vision of the future ruled by an authoritarian regime. The opening lines, "Stand aside for the new world order, Systematic, aristocratic," suggest that there is a new power structure in place, one that is hierarchical and organized. The use of the imperative "Don't deceive yourself get out of the way, We command and you obey," indicates that this new order demands obedience from its subjects.

The next lines, "Beautiful to be the joker, Cursed by an all-too human future," suggest that people who do not conform to the new order may be seen as outcasts (jokers), but they may also be the only ones who see the truth of the situation (cursed by an all-too human future). The line, "Things you cannot defeat you start to believe in, New generations, synthetic nations," implies that the new regime has control over what people believe and that they have created new synthetic nations.

The chorus, "I am you loving hate, this is the new world," suggests a world in which love and hate are intertwined, where there is no separation between the two. The final lines, "World-wide genocide, mass religious suicide, Immoral seduction, digital corruption," offer a glimpse into the horrors of this new world, a world where genocide and religious suicide are commonplace, and where technology itself is corrupt.

Line by Line Meaning

Stand aside for the new world order
Step back and make way for the upcoming global dominion

Systematic, aristocratic
Ordered and elitist

Don't deceive yourself get out of the way
Do not fool yourself, move aside

We command and you obey
We give orders and you follow

Beautiful to be the joker
It's appealing to be the outcast or rebel

Cursed by an all-to human future
Doomed by a future shaped entirely by humans

Things you cannot defeat you start to believe in
You come to accept things you can't overcome

New generations, synthetic nations
Subsequent groups of people and artificial countries

I am you loving hate, this is the new world
I embody your love for hatred, this is the new era

Old-school fascism is on the rise
Traditional fascism is reemerging

Narcissistic, evangelistic
Self-centered and preachy