SETI (The Kovenant album)
Occupation
- Vocals: Lex Icon
- Singing: Eileen Küpper
- Guitar, Keyboard: Psy Coma
- Drums: Blomberg
SETI (also SETI ) is the fourth and so far last studio album by the Norwegian metal band The Kovenant. It was released in 2003 on Nuclear Blast. The title stands for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Creation and publication
After Animatronic the band went with Audun "Angel" stems from Apoptygma Berzerk as a live guitarist in the spring of 2000 to U.S. tour in the summer and autumn of the year touring The Kovenant in Europe. Before Lex Icon and Psy Coma took up the work on a new album, they made a remix of the debut album In Times Before the Light, which was released in 2002 on Hammerheart Records. The new album SETI (working title Cybertrash ) was re- recorded in the Woodhouse Studios in Hagen in 2002. January Kazda and Siggi Bemm were involved as a session bassist, Erik Ljungren as a sound designer. SETI was produced by Dan Diamond, mixed by him and Siggi Bemm and mastered by the latter.
Title list
Style
The Kovenant tread on the album continues with the chosen Animatronic way and take with lots of effects and samples more electro elements into their style to, even if the industrial influences less and the drum rhythms have again become more varied. Lex Icon yelling barely, he sings mainly with almost a clear voice; Eileen Küppers sings again operatic. It can be found melodic- catchy, bombastic, theatrical, pop and danceable passages that are mostly middle tempo. The album sounded "like a successful hybrid of Zeromancer, Marilyn Manson, Die Krupps and Samael. Meet sawing riffs pulsating samples and female operatic voices and mix to a futuristic Space Metal with strong electro - shock. " Benchmarking with Rammstein were drawn, but the album" consistently denied all too clear " categorizations.
Reception
The album received mixed to positive reviews. David Gregory of metal.de it considers to be "too heavy and mid-tempo pop " and a " very mixed blessing [s ] sword [ ... ] that will polarize even more than it has already done the previous albums of the Norwegians. " Robert Müller from Metal Hammer SETI praises for his " clever staging trashy " and " some very successful songs," but also criticized a "certain experimental arbitrariness ". Captain Chaos of Vampster finds that the album " from front to back thought out " and the band "has everything crammed in creativity that was possible ." On the other hand, he criticizes, " that some songs but can also severely protracted due to width. " Conny shipbuilders from Rock Hard sums up: " ' Seti ' impresses with sophisticated, detail- song arrangements, an idiosyncratic stylistic sound mix, incredibly danceable earwigs and more than ever before musical class. "