The Covenant – Into Her Arms (the story of bloody stupid cash part 3 of 3)

[schema type=”review” name=”The Covenant – Into Her Arms (the story of bloody stupid cash part 3 of 3)” description=”Label; Dutch and Dregs” author=”Sabine van Gameren” pubdate=”2017-10-07″ ]The Covenant is a Dutch formation that has been around for 30 years by now. The Rock band has been sharing stage with many great names and anno 2017 the band is presenting us a new release. It is the third part of a Rock Opera that is concluding the story they have built with the trilogy.

The Melodic touch the band gives to their rocky sound is driing the sound, but this third part in the trilogy is not one that you can easily fall into. It needs a bit more dedication to grow into the story, the first songs are not giving you much clarity right away. But the patient ones get rewarded. The whole gets a bit more body when youget further into it. However it is to recommend to listen to the first two parts first as the album is not giving you a chapter you can listen on its own. The band has created some video’s to support the whole which may help the ones who aren’t owning these previous ones.
Here and there you hoped they would make it either heavier or more bombastic to have a song that sets itself a bit more, but that one is not showing up on this release. The story just drifts on slowly. Musically the band does well, not strange for a band being together this long.

So the story is complete. This last part is maybe not the most favorite of the three but it does give a good conclusion and it listens easily. You cans pend some time with it enjoying it, so the end is there now and you don’t leave the story unsatisfied.

Line up:
Frank van der Reep – vocals
Peter Stap – bass
Hans Koomans – guitar
Daniël Jansen – drums

01 Here Comes The Sun 02 Moonchild 03 Freund/Feind 04 Impossible Human Being 05 Getaway Car 06 End Of Summer 07 Heading For A Fall 08 Get Me Offline 09 If Anything Happens To You 10 There’s Something Wrong 11 All Is Well 12 You’re My Last Friend 13 No Ordinary Guy/Dead Moon Rising 14 The Basement

Links:
The Covenant Facebook