Skyshaper

Skyshaper
Studio album by
Covenant
ReleasedMarch 2006
Genre
Length53:21
LabelMetropolis
Covenant chronology
Northern Light
(2002) 		Skyshaper
(2006) 		Modern Ruin
(2011)
Singles from Skyshaper
  1. "Ritual Noise"
    Released: 20 Jan 2006[1]
  2. "Brave New World"
    Released: 10 Oct 2006[2]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]

Skyshaper is Covenant's sixth studio album. It was released in Europe by Synthetic Symphony / SPV on 2006 March 3 and in the United States by Metropolis Records on 2006 March 7. It reached No. 44 in the German mainstream charts.

"Ritual Noise" was the album's first single, reaching No. 64 in Germany on 3 February 2006 (charting for 3 weeks)[4] and No. 42 in Sweden on 26 January 2006 (charting for 2 weeks)[5] and "Brave New World" was the second. The song "20 Hz" was featured in the 2005 video game Project Gotham Racing 3.

The band took 14 months to record this album. According to Covenant band member Joakim Montelius, the band went through 150 revisions of "Brave New World", and also numerous revisions of several other songs on Skyshaper.[6]

  1. ^ "Ritual Noise CD single at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
  2. ^ "Brave New World CD single at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
  3. ^ "Allmusic review".
  4. ^ "Offizielle Deutsche Charts - Offizielle Deutsche Charts".
  5. ^ Steffen Hung. "Covenant - Ritual Noise". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 2022-08-13.
  6. ^ Uhlenbruch, J. "Niggels" (25 January 2006). "Covenant - January 2006 Pt. I". Reflections of Darkness music magazine. Retrieved 30 July 2012.