The Covenant – In Times Before The Light (1997)

February 28, 2020

I made the decision to take this rare opportunity to listen to both of these records back to back, and post each one in succession. I started with, of course, Covenant’s OG In Times Before The Light; a hissy, hollow black metal experience. Not as necro as some entries in the genre, but there is an echoic hollowness to proceedings that even a layer of frosted synths cannot cover up. There is a magic and beauty here however, like the way the most dangerous and precarious mountain peaks can look absolutely gorgeous when gazed upon from afar.