COVEN: "Blessed is the Black" LP
Ever Rat 1987
 Jay Clark - vocals
Dean Babbitt - guitar
Paul Hash - guitar
Gary Peebles - bass
Neal Babbitt - drums

Rarity:
LP (Us) = 1,5
LP (Hol) = 1
CD = 5

Blessed is the Black
6669
Burn the Cross
Out of the Grave
Rock this Church
Iron Dick
The Monger
McDonaldland Massacre
Another Life
Creature of Duty

 Hmmm. Think this LP is presented in the wrong place. Originally it belongs to the "Classic Steel" section. Who cares? In every way this is a fucking great piece of Steel, a bastard between Power, Speed and Thrash with great but insane vocals and some of the funniest metal-lyrics I ever read (>McDonaldland Massacre<: "Can I take your order please" - "Nooooooooo!!!!!" - "Can I help you, Sir?" - "Noooooooooo!!!!!!! McDonaldland Massacre...." / or >Iron Dick<: "Long as my arm and five times as thick, you'll die at the end of my Iron Dick" or >6669<: "Six six sixtynine - copulation with a corpse....")! This is the right record for friday evening, some beer with your friends and the hell of a party! A real poserslaughter mayhem, he he.
A short lesson in history: COVEN was formed in 1985, released a demo ("Blessed is the Black" Blessed Bastard Records) in 1986 which features exactly the same tracks as the debut record that came out on LP and (hard to find now) CD in 1987. In 1989 COVEN released "Death walks behind you", sadly a very average Thrash album (Medusa Records). In 1993 the last sign of life was seen in form of the boring "Boneless Christian" CD on Redlight Records.
It hurts to see such a great combo drown in insignificance. But the swansong of "Blessed is the Black" will always remain. Blessed be!

 

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