Skyshaper

Skyshaper is Covenant's sixth studio album. It was released in Europe by Synthetic Symphony / SPV on 2006 March 3 and in the United States by Metropolis Records on 2006 March 7. It reached No. 44 in the German mainstream charts.

Skyshaper
Studio album by Covenant
Released	March 2006
Genre	Futurepop synth-pop
Length	53:21
Label	Metropolis
Covenant chronology
Northern Light (2002) Skyshaper (2006) Modern Ruin (2011)
Singles from Skyshaper
"Ritual Noise" Released: 20 Jan 2006[1] "Brave New World" Released: 10 Oct 2006[2]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]

"Ritual Noise" was the album's first single, reaching No. 64 in Germany on 3 February 2006 (charting for 3 weeks)^[4] and No. 42 in Sweden on 26 January 2006 (charting for 2 weeks)^[5] and "Brave New World" was the second. The song "20 Hz" was featured in the 2005 video game Project Gotham Racing 3.

The band took 14 months to record this album. According to Covenant band member Joakim Montelius, the band went through 150 revisions of "Brave New World", and also numerous revisions of several other songs on Skyshaper.^[6]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Ritual Noise"	7:18
2.	"Pulse"	6:04
3.	"Happy Man"	2:46
4.	"Brave New World"	5:24
5.	"The Men"	3:17
6.	"Sweet & Salty"	6:10
7.	"Greater than the Sun"	5:09
8.	"20 Hz"	5:09
9.	"Spindrift"	7:00
10.	"The World Is Growing Loud"	4:57

Limited edition version

No.	Title	Length
11.	"Subterfugue for 3 Absynths"	42:08
12.	"Relief"	4:32
13.	"Ritual Noise" (Calico Remix)	4:51

Chart positions

Skyshaper

Chart (2006)	Peak position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[7]	44
German Alternative Charts (DAC)[8]	1

"Ritual Noise"

Chart (2006)	Peak position
Germany (GfK)[9]	64
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[10]	42

References

1. "Ritual Noise CD single at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
2. "Brave New World CD single at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
3. "Allmusic review".
4. "Offizielle Deutsche Charts - Offizielle Deutsche Charts".
5. Steffen Hung. "Covenant - Ritual Noise". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 2022-08-13.
6. Uhlenbruch, J. "Niggels" (25 January 2006). "Covenant - January 2006 Pt. I". Reflections of Darkness music magazine. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
7. "Officialcharts.de – Covenant – Skyshaper". GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
8. "DAC Top 50 Albums 2006". Trendcharts oHG. AMC Alster Musik Consulting GmbH. 2007. Archived from the original on 23 April 2008. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
9. "Covenant – Ritual Noise" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
10. "Covenant – Ritual Noise". Singles Top 100. Retrieved 30 May 2016.