This is about the album by Morbid Angel. For other albums titled Covenant see Covenant (disambiguation)

Covenant (disambiguation)

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Covenant is the third official full-length album by Florida based death metal

Death metal

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 band Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel is an American death metal band based in Tampa, Florida. UK music magazine Terrorizer ranked one Morbid Angel album in its “Top 40 greatest death metal albums”, with their 1989 debut Altars of Madness appearing at number 1...

. It was released on June 22, 1993. This album represented Morbid Angel's first foray into mainstream metal, through their contract with Giant Records. The music video for "God of Emptiness" was featured on Beavis and Butt-head

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 and received airplay on MTV. The style of this album is more akin to the slower style of the previous album Blessed Are the Sick

Blessed Are the Sick

Blessed Are the Sick is the second official release from death metal band Morbid Angel. It features an overall slower musical sound, although containing very fast riffs, and reveals another side of the band, with classical music undertones...

. Some early pressings of the album had a Parental Advisory

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 logo on the cover. Future pressings of the album were produced without the advisory.

Covenant was reissued as a Digipak

Digipak

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 in 2011.

Much of the lyrics for this album, written by David Vincent

David Vincent

David Alexander Vincent , also known as Evil D, is an American musician who is best known as the lead vocalist and bassist for the death metal band Morbid Angel as well as the bassist for Genitorturers...

, could be considered Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel is an American death metal band based in Tampa, Florida. UK music magazine Terrorizer ranked one Morbid Angel album in its “Top 40 greatest death metal albums”, with their 1989 debut Altars of Madness appearing at number 1...

's most Occult

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 and Satanic

Satanism

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 based. The album's cover image shows a page from The Book of Ceremonial Magic

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 by Arthur Edward Waite

Arthur Edward Waite

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 to the right, and a reproduction of "The Pact Of Urbain Grandier

Urbain Grandier

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" on the left.

According to Nielsen Soundscan

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, Covenant is the best selling death metal album of all time, with sales of over 127,000 in the United States alone.

Track listing

Credits

• David Vincent
  David Vincent
  David Alexander Vincent , also known as Evil D, is an American musician who is best known as the lead vocalist and bassist for the death metal band Morbid Angel as well as the bassist for Genitorturers...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
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  , vocals
  Singing
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• Trey Azagthoth
  Trey Azagthoth
  Trey Azagthoth is an American musician best known as founder and guitarist of the Florida death metal band Morbid Angel. Azagthoth began playing at the age of 16...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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  , keyboards
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• Pete Sandoval
  Pete Sandoval
  Pete Sandoval is an American death metal drummer. Born in Santa Ana, El Salvador, he is known for his accomplishments in the world of extreme metal drumming. His first significant stint as a drummer was for the grindcore band Terrorizer, formed in 1986, where he began to demonstrate some of his...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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• Morbid Angel
  Morbid Angel
  Morbid Angel is an American death metal band based in Tampa, Florida. UK music magazine Terrorizer ranked one Morbid Angel album in its “Top 40 greatest death metal albums”, with their 1989 debut Altars of Madness appearing at number 1...
  
   – production
  Record producer
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• Tom Morris
  Tom Morris
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   – engineering
• Flemming Rasmussen
  Flemming Rasmussen
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   – production, engineering, mixing
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• Luton Sinfield – photography