72 minutes, 44 seconds

Covenant
Sequencer

A very transitional album for Covenant, taking some steps away from their harder-edged debut, Dreams of a Cryotank, and into more-tuneful territory. I think this might be my favorite Covenant disc, if only because the songs here all seem to be sung with conviction and urgency, and the (English) lyrics are sharper than those of your typical European "industrial" band.

Covenant would go on to do more work in this vein, ramping up the melodic elements in their music, but to my mind nothing that quite matches the power of Sequencer. And I'm not saying that out of a sense of nostalgia--at least, I hope I'm not. But maybe it's hard for us to follow bands that go in new directions once we've attached ourselves to what we loved about the first music they made. Or maybe I'm just a grump who should learn to go with the flow.

Also today:

72:44 Vidna Obmana, Anthology 1984-2004
72:43 In the Nursery, An Ambush of Ghosts
72:43 Rajna, The Heady Wine of Praise
72:39 Abscess, Journey
72:39 yelworC, Collection 1988-94 (CD 1 of 2)
72:38 Front 242, Geography (CD 2 of 2)
72:38 Misericordia, The Olde Daunce
72:35 Caul, Light from Many Lamps