Covenant launches new single and announces new CD!

English:Andere
  Van Muylem    12 juli 2016

Fans of Covenant will be very happy with this news! Nice thing is that we get a very good explanation about the background story of their new work as the lyrics for their new single is based on recent events!


On August 26th, Sound Mirrors, the first single from Covenant’s forthcoming new album The Blinding Dark, sees the light of night. A rollicking affair, calling to mind tracks like Brave New World or We Stand Alone, the band’s latest offering feels right at home in the pantheon of Covenant singles.

The track’s initial inspiration comes from the band’s fascination with a network of large concrete acoustic mirrors built during World War 2 on the coast of southern England. These structures, known as Sound Mirrors, still stand today and were erected as early-warning devices by British air defence forces to detect incoming enemy aircraft. Yet they were rendered obsolete by the invention of radar long before they could be put into widespread use.

It’s a story that underscores the paradox of progress. The basic human need to anticipate imminent danger is as old as our cave-drawing ancestors. Yet the ferocity of innovation has a decisive and uncomfortable power, inexorably pulling ideas forward while leaving others behind.

Covenant’s Joakim Montelius couldn’t help but detect thematic similarities with current events. “My reading coincided with the refugee situation in Europe. That ability to anticipate possible scenarios is key to our survival from an evolutionary point of view. But we also have an equally amazing ability to ignore facts that make us feel uncomfortable or frightened. We can watch terrible things unfold right in front of us and still act as if nothing is going on. We buy ourselves a better conscience by sending some used clothes or money, we sign some petitions online, perhaps we write something heartfelt and compassionate on Facebook and then we go on with our comfortable lives.

But when the people suffering over there come knocking on our door, asking for a bit of the safety and prosperity we enjoy, that thin veneer of compassion and generosity cracks and our selfishness, our fear, our prejudice is suddenly all too apparent. And to my mind that’s because we ignore what we actually know:

There is no we versus them. There is only us. And there is only one world.

And when we see the truth of that simple fact and really absorb it so we can start acting on it, then there will be hope for us. Then we won’t need early warning.”

Sounds Mirrors is available for pre-order on CD or limited edition 4 track vinyl. Check here:
http://en.dependent.de/covenant-sound-mirrors.html