Tokyo, Japan based metallers COVEN– inspired by Iron Maiden, Mercyful Fate and 80’s NWOTHM – are set to release their debut EP “The Advent” on September 29th by the Finnish Svart Records. Just recently the band unleashed a new lyric video “Wings Of Glory”, taken from the EP, watch it below.
Comments the band: “Just uploaded a New Lyric Video on our Youtube! Wings Of Glory’s Lyric Video with Alphabet’s Kana ruby, so you can sing all parts together! and it’s not previous Demo Version, this is Renewal Version for our debut EP “The Advent”. Take a Listen and please spread! Thank you!”
ALPHA OMEGA Management has a huge pleasure to announce COVEN, led by the High Priestess of Occult JINX DAWSON, to play their unique “Musickal Ritual” at Roadburn Festival 2017 in The Netherlands! More information on Roadburn here. Facebook event page here.
JINX DAWSON‘s message to her Cherished Friends: “Roadburn Festival’s intrepid ring master, Walter, hath stirred us from our COVEN lair. We shall be performing a musickal ritual for the first time in many ages.We are wickedly delighted to travel to the Netherlands for this very special festival concert, and to bring our musickal form of Witchcraft once again to the live stage.”
Roadburn Festival writes in their press release:
“Welcome to the COVEN at Roadburn 2017; JINX DAWSON invites us to her lair on Thursday, April 20 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Devil Horns, the Left Hand Path, Satanic Rituals, Black Magick, Sexuality, and a seminal debut-album that has had a lasting appeal since 1969. COVEN’s Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls was not only ahead of its time, the iconoclastic troupe – helmed by high priestess, and the original wicked woman, JINX DAWSON – heavily influenced future generations of musicians, from Ghost to The Devil’s Blood, from Witchcraft to In Solitude, from Blood Ceremony to Lucifer, and even our festival.
We are equal measures excited, proud and overwhelmed to be able to announce that COVEN will thrill Roadburn Festival to it’s darkened core on Thursday, April 20 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands. JINX DAWSON, and her unholy union will take their cult-ritual to the stage for the first time in decades – and for the first time ever on European soil.
Known by many classic rock fans for JINX DAWSON’s early seventies hit, ‘One Tin Soldier’, from the counter culture flick Billy Jack, the song was an anthem for hypocrisy and added more mystery to COVEN’s occult imagery and aesthetics that laid the groundwork for hard rock and heavy metal.The band’s diabolical mix of proto-metal paired with dark psychedelica and prog was dabbed in deeply occult lyrics, and has always been a celebration of all things Left Hand Path. Whether it’s the much sought after and talked about Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls, or the band’s third album Blood On the Snow, COVEN’s output has terrified peers and audiences, as well as the moral-elite since their incarnation. Their extreme dark and shocking rites, thriving on a strong woman’s sexuality, was unheard of at the time.
Though COVEN went clandestine not long after the release of Blood on the Snow, JINX DAWSON, and the band always remained a landmark within the metal community, and hailed as one of the 10 greatest heavy metal front women. Having battled with record companies, management, opposing religious organisations and law officials has only added to Jinx’s legacy to stay genuinely true to her own firm beliefs, based upon a very long lineage of Occult Adepts and Practitioners of the Ancient Arts.
With the release of 2003’s Goth Queen: Out of the Vault, and 2013’s album, “Jinx”, DAWSON rightfully regained her throne as ‘the originator’ of the burgeoning occult rock scene – a movement that we have wholeheartedly embraced at Roadburn over the years, while offering a platform to her children of the damned.
Having the mysterious JINX DAWSON/ COVEN at Roadburn isn’t only a thrilling once in a lifetime event, it is also our way of paying a humble tribute to a woman that has been such an integral influence on the festival since its incarnation in 1999, and an inspirational heroine to many bands that graced our stages over the years. We couldn’t think of a more fitting ceremony, and welcome all of you to Jinx’s lair on Thursday, April 20 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands – don’t break the circle, and join us.”
Just recently METALHEADS FOREVER, one of the biggest metal entities out there, led by David Maloney, contacted ALPHA OMEGA Management and EMP Label Group, proposing a Special October issue about the Alliance between ALPHA OMEGA and EMP! Now this ambitious article is available online, featuring interviews with Alex Azzali, David Ellefson, Roberto Risso, Thom Hazaert + some of the ALPHA OMEGA/EMP roster bands: COVEN – RON MARKS – ANCIENT – D.R.I. – EXTREMA – MASTER – MOBILE DEATHCAMP – THEATRES DES VAMPIRES – COLD RAVEN – HELSTAR – DOLL SKIN – SEMBLANT – HEAVEN BELOW – ARISE IN CHAOS – SKUMLOVE and DEAD BY WEDNESDAY.
Metalheads Forever‘s CEO David Maloney stated in his closing remarks: “We can’t thanks you enough for your time and participation and prompt replies. To ALPHA OMEGA Management and EMP Label Group, it was our pleasure to work with you and we are looking forward to working together with WORLD METAL DOMINATION. We look forward to following up on this article at a future date and talk a little further into your respective business and bands and other projects respectively, thanks again MHF.”
ALPHA OMEGA Management and EMP Label Group thank Metalheads Forever and its Staff, for this great opportunity: “We couldn’t be more agree! The WORLD METAL DOMINATION has started and will move on, in a way that we believe is the only right way: Reliable, Constant, Steadfast and Steady! This is just the beginning… \m/”
David Maloney tells about Metalheads Forever: “Metalheads Forever was created on October 15th, 2010 because of a life long love and passion for Metal. It was started with the intent to satisfy some of my Metal needs as well as a few close Metal friends. Like any great thing it started with one, then two, than three and 6 years later 82,000 plus members and fans make us one of the biggest and baddest Metal entities on the face of the Earth. What started out as a hobby and purely for fun as turned into a something I was not prepared for in the beginning, as we started to grow so did my vision of what we could be and what we could become. Day by day, week by week and yes year by year I could see that this was a Globally shared passion with very few outlets to just be a Metalhead and enjoy the company of lifelong Metalheads and like minded people. So here we sit 6 years later, 43 subgroups covering nearly all sub-genres, being a force on all social Platforms from Twitter to Youtube and everything in between. This is just the beginning for us! \m/”
Only few women are as essential and enigmatic for the world of rock as High Priestess of Occult, JINX DAWSON – forming the Almighty COVEN in the late 1960s – creating so the bedrock for a real iconography, the significant landmark for the establishment of the foundation of “how to” and “when” the occult were introduced into music. JINX DAWSON is the idol, role model, paragon and the “reason to be” for many great names out there, as Black Sabbath, Black Widow, King Diamond and many more!
The major parts of today’s “Satanistic bands” (like Behemoth, Deicide, Venom etc) have taken inspiration from COVEN. Furthermore, not known by many is the fact that Jinx Dawson was the first ever to use the “sign of the horns” on stage, starting in early 1968.
Jinx Dawson, High Priestess Magus and lead singer of The Coven announces her pleasure that the band hath forged an alliance with Alpha Omega Management: “We look forward to working together in Magick and Musick… And we are wickedly excited to perform for our Cherished Friends at future concerts…\m/”
ALPHA OMEGA Management adds: “With our deepest honor and pleasure we announce that Jinx Dawson and Coven have entered the building! We look forward to bring forward the Magick of Occult with the upcoming rituals by the one-and-only Metal Goth Queen and Her Court! May this legacy be strong and alive until the times to come! \m/”
Jinx and Coven conclude: “Meanwhile, after having discussions with numerous talent managers and record labels, Coven is happy to announce a partnership with Alpha Omega Management, whom they feel is a world class organization with enough industry muscle to protect the band’s interests and assure that Coven returns to the forefront of the industry, both live and on record, in a way that serves to both enhance and protect the legacy created decades ago.”
Watch the video teaser for the latest release from Coven, “Light The Fire”, out on April 18th, 2016 exclusively from Nevoc Musick:
2013 saw the return of Coven to the forefront of the music world with the release of Jinx, the first new album of music in almost twenty years. A collection of rock, pop, psychedelic, and metal anthems with contributions from Chicago metal/industrial supergroup Wolfpack 44 and avant-garde Indianapolis stalwarts We Are Hex, as well as a number of unreleased Coven hymns given a re-work in the studio, the Jinx album proved that the test of time had not faded Coven’s luster one bit and served to reassert enigmatic frontwoman Jinx Dawson’s dominance as THE occult rock Queen, a standard she had set decades earlier with the 1969 release of the now-fabled Coven classic ‘Witchcraft: Destroys Minds And Reaps Souls.’ And with the epic photos on that album, being the band pictured that first introduced the “Sign of the Horns” to rock, metal and pop culture.
Says Wolfpack 44 guitarist Ricktor Ravensbrück: “I’d contacted Jinx about creating a sigil for my band, and we slowly became friends and eventually co-conspirators. My band was recording in Chicago and because Jinx and I started conversing, I thought it might be great to record a cover of Coven’s classic “Wicked Woman”, and dared to hope against hope that I could convince Jinx to lend her vocals to our version of her epic song. I sent her the rough mix of the track, and another I’d written – which would end up becoming “To The Devil…A Daughter”, versions of which appeared on both the Jinx album as well as my own. She must have liked what she heard because much to my delight, she agreed not only to reprise her vocal on the Coven song, but also wrote lyrics for and sang on the other track as well!” As a result of this perhaps predestined collaboration, Jinx travelled to Chicago several times to record some vocals and finalize the last tracks that would comprise the Jinx album, which was unleashed upon the world on Halloween of 2013, to virtually unanimous acclaim, from both critics and fans alike. Coven was back!
As great reviews started to accumulate, so did the offers worldwide for live performance. Proving itself a timely process, Dawson and Ravensbrück – who’d offered his services as Coven’s live guitarist – began holding auditions in 2015, a process still incomplete at the time of this writing. However, the two determined that if the right players could be found, and a proper team assembled to represent the interests of the band, then Coven would indeed return to the live stage.
Walpurgis of 2016 saw Coven release the two song EP “Light The Fire” which only served to whet the whistle of rabid fans worldwide, and was planned as merely a teaser until a new full-length Coven album could be recorded. Pre-production has begun, although no timetable for said release has been established.
Meanwhile, after having discussions with numerous talent managers and record labels, Coven is happy to announce a partnership with Alpha Omega Management, whom they feel is a world class organization with enough industry muscle to protect the band’s interests and assure that Coven returns to the forefront of the industry, both live and on record, in a way that serves to both enhance and protect the legacy created decades ago.
“As exciting and fulfilling as it’s been to work with Jinx & Coven, a band I’ve idolized since discovering that first record back in high school, the thought of sharing the stage with her is even more so. I can say with authority that Jinx has lost none of the vocal power and allure that has elevated her to legendary status
today. Occult rock has seen a resurgence of late, and today’s purveyors of the form most certainly owe a debt of gratitude to Jinx. I hear and see her influence everywhere, and the time is right for the band to reassert their dominance. And with Alpha Omega steering the ship, I feel confident that we’ll be in qualified, capable hands. Which frees us to pursue what matters most: the music” says Ravensbrück. So mote it be!
Shadow Kingdom Records is pleased to announce the July 31st reissue of COVEN‘s legendary 1987 album Worship New Gods. COVEN, from Detroit, MI, is not the Jinx DawsonCOVEN that is somewhat known in underground Metal world. This COVEN, who was actually approached by Jinx to change their name to COVEN 13, is a unique 80’s Heavy Metal band that unleash a rare blend of CANDLEMASS / SABBATH Doomy Heavy Metal with a MERCYFUL FATE / CELTIC FROST black metal charm to it. The album is quite moody and may take a little while to sink in, but once it clicks, there’s nothing quite like it. This is one of the rarest US Metal albums to ever exist because it was self released back in 1987 on VINYL only. This is the first official release of it on CD with a lot of amazing band photos.
The Cover Art and Track Listing for this album can be seen below:
1. Riddle Of Steel
2. Wicked Day
3. Ruler
4. Kiss Me With Blood
5. Burial Ground
6. General’s Eye
7. Jail House
8. Threshold Of The New
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