COVENANT

http://www.covenant.se/

With their beginnings in the mid eighties, Covenant hail from the south of Sweden in a town called Helsingborg. Their music originally was described as big band electronics, but since the early nineties when their membership was pared down to the current trio, their sound has been an accessible blend of electro-pop and industrialism, infinitely danceable, filled with an uplifting and upbeat energy.

Igniting the E.B.M. scene with unstoppable dance floor hits, Covenant remain the mark to reach for many new emerging bands. With the perfect combination of Eskil's haunting, dark, majestic vocals, pulsating techno beats, creative noise samples, and amazing synth work, the band has created a strong North American following as well as an enormous European base.

Their sound has been compared to an assemblage of styles ranging from Prodigy, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Apoptygma Berzerk, VNV Nation, and Kraftwerk; but the final result is like nothing anybody else has been putting out. Covenant has redefined the way Electronic Body Music is perceived.

HELLBLINKI SEXTET

http://www.hellblinki.com/

Birthed full grown from the forehead of Andrew Benjamin (a.k.a. A-Hellblinki), The Hellblinki Sextet is a Shape-Shifting conglomerate of Augusta GAs most original and eclectic musicians serving Andrews sweaty musical visions: Broken tooth blues in a Tux, Choral fantasies for agnostic angels, and peg-leg waltzes on the rim of Mt. Vesuvius. In the studio or on the stage Hellblinki is prone to suprises, sexual tension, and dramatic release; its material is refreshingly unusual, while remaining accessible to mortal ears.

The band has been known to perform as a true sextet, composed of male and female vocalists; acoustic electric and bass guitars, brass and woodwinds, multiple percussionists, violin, keyboards, samples, radio, and various toys and empty wine bottles. In its present incarnation, Hellblinki is Andrew the one-man band on guitar, vocals, drums and the occasional cornet, often joined by additional percussion, strings and voices provided by previous members of the larger group.

Last Updated ( Friday, 14 May 2010 15:23 )