More details revealed about The Kovenant’s upcoming album

The Kovenant’s bassist and singer Stian “Nagash” Arnesen recently stated in an interview with Colombia’s Savage Noise Media that the group is currently working on songs for their first studio album in over two decades. This is what BLABBERMOUTH.NET transcribed him saying.

Well, we already have several songs written. With me, I hate to do the same album twice. I don’t play in AC/DC, so you’re not going to get the same album for 40 years. So, the new album, it’s different from all the others, but it is more metal. It’s a bit darker, but it’s a mix between all the albums, plus new stuff, of course, ’cause it’s been such a long time and everyone has evolved as musicians and stuff. But it sounds very Kovenant. The people I’ve played the demo tracks to so far, they all say, like, ‘Holy shit, this sounds like Kovenant’ So it’s not like we’re going back either with this new one, like, ‘Oh, we’re gonna do ‘Nexus Polaris’ part two’ or something. But there are some elements from ‘Nexus‘ that we have on the new album, like all this whole symphonic, a little bit technical, weird riffs and stuff.”

Nagash also spoke about what will happen to The Kovenant for the rest of this year.

We have a lot more shows to do, including the South American stuff. Also today it was announced, we’re playing Inferno Festival in Norway. It’s been like 20 years or something since we did it last time. We have a few more festivals, but then we’re gonna focus on the new album, to get that released. So, basically, it’s me and Sverd who are writing at the moment, most of it. But then we also have the new guitarists, both of them, Ghul from Mayhem also joined, and Knut from Arcturus, and they both have very interesting approaches to music. And we’re gonna include all of that. So we’re gonna focus on the new album, for sure. Not just one, but more.

The label is still something to be decided, though.

We have interest from a lot of labels. We have a really great management who also does Emperor and Samael and bands like this. And he’s very respected in the whole industry, so we are relying a lot on him to help us with the deals, ’cause we have lots of interest from big labels, medium labels, even smaller labels. So we’ll see what we’re gonna do.