Nexus Polaris is the sophmore album of Norweigan black metal band, The Kovenant, and was released in 1998 through Nuclear Blast. Jump to: navigation, search The Kingdom of Norway is a Nordic country on the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, bordering Sweden, Finland and Russia, with territorial waters bordering Danish and British waters. ... Jump to: navigation, search Black metal is a musical genre which emerged in the early 1980s predating the great expansion of heavy metal extreme genres. ... The Kovenant is a Norwegian band which has evolved from black metal to space metal and cyber metal over the years. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1998(MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. ...

Album History

The original album In Times Before the Light was successful at staging a fan base in the black metal scene in Norway. Nagash and Blackheart had greater ambitions for the band and wanted better production and pay for their music. Nuclear Blast caught eye of the band and Covenant (still known as that before the change) signed with them. Jump to: navigation, search Black metal is a musical genre which emerged in the early 1980s predating the great expansion of heavy metal extreme genres. ... Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. ...

Starting the new album, Nagash and Blackheart wanted to form an actual band this time. They enlisted guitarist, Astennu (who was playing in Dimmu Borgir at the time with Nagash), keyboardist Sverd (of Arcturus), Sarah Jezebel Deva (of Cradle of Filth and other bands), and Hellhammer (of Mayhem). Nagash took over bass and vocal duties while Blackheart took guitar. Jump to: navigation, search Dimmu Borgir Dimmu Borgir is a Norwegian melodic black metal/symphonic metal band whose music has been in the charts in several Scandinavian countries and Germany. ... Jump to: navigation, search Arcturus (α Boo / α Boötis / Alpha Boötis) is the brightest star in the constellation Boötes, and the third brightest star in the sky, with a visual magnitude of −0. ... Sarah Jezebel Deva (real name, Sarah Jane Ferridge) is the female singer for the British Melodic Black Metal band Cradle of Filth and has been with the band since Dusk and Her Embrace, although she is not officially referred to as a member of the group. ... Jump to: navigation, search Cradle of Filth, formed in 1991, are a metal band with gothic influences from England, although their music has been somewhat difficult to classify, and as such is highly subject to opinion. ... Jan Axel von Blomberg, or as his moniker has it, Hellhammer, is a black metal drummer. ... Look up Mayhem in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Mayhem has several meanings: Original meaning as a legal term: a crime consisting of the act of maiming; in many jurisdictions this offense has been subsumed by the crime of aggravated assault. ...

Nexus Polaris was released in 1998 and was hugely successful (due to Nuclear Blast's promotion) and allowed Covenant to do a two-week tour and was on national Norweigan television for six days. This was also a sign showing Covenant moving from black metal to more of cyber metal and space metal. Soon Covenant found themselves nominated for a Norweigan Grammy. They attended and won for Best Hard Rock band, the first ever in history. Jump to: navigation, search 1998(MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Kingdom of Norway is a Nordic country on the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, bordering Sweden, Finland and Russia, with territorial waters bordering Danish and British waters. ... Jump to: navigation, search Black metal is a musical genre which emerged in the early 1980s predating the great expansion of heavy metal extreme genres. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Kingdom of Norway is a Nordic country on the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, bordering Sweden, Finland and Russia, with territorial waters bordering Danish and British waters. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music...

A re-release of Nexus Polaris was made in 2002. Jump to: navigation, search 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Track Listing

1. "The Sulphur Feast" - 4:10
2. "Bizarre Cosmic Industries" - 4:06
3. "Planetarium" - 4:02
4. "The Last of Dragons" - 6:29
5. "Bringer of the Sixth Sun" - 6:32
6. "Dragonheart" - 4:52
7. "Planetary Black Elements" - 5:49
8. "Chariots of Thunder" - 5:48

Personnel

• Nagash - Bass/Vocals
• Blackheart - Guitar
• Astennu - Guitar
• Sverd - Keyboards
• Sarah Jezebel Deva - Female Vocals
• Hellhammer - Drums