Hamar based Industrial Metal band with a rich Black Metal heritage. Previously known as THE COVENANT. Lex Icon (a.k.a. Stian Arnesen), previously known as Nagash, is ex-DIMMU BORGIR. Drummer Von Blomberg is in fact Hellhammer of MAYHEM repute. Besides his main employ with MAYHEM, Hellhammer's impact upon the Scandinavian Metal scene stretches across such diverse acts as ANTESTOR, AGE OF SILENCE, ARCTURUS, CARNIVORA, IMMORTAL, MORTEM, SHINING, VIDSYN, TROLL, THORNS, DIMMU BORGIR, MEZZERSCHMITT and WINDS. Guitarist Psy Coma (Amund Svensson) is also known as Blackheart from TROLL. The band used the opportunity of changing titles to revamp their image, sound and names too from the earlier 'Nexus Polaris' album. The October 1999 follow up 'Animatronic' album sees a cover of BABYLON ZOO's 'Spaceman'.

THE KOVENANT men Hellhammer and Psy Core appear on the 2000 TROLL album 'The Last Predators', a project assembled by Nagash. During mid 2002.

THE KOVENANT, now incorporating Eric Ljunggren of ZEROMANCER on programming, announced a return to the studio to cut a third album 'S.E.T.I. (The Search For Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)'. The band also revealed plans to record a cover version of THE DOORS classic 'Strange Days' but as it transpired limited editions of 'S.E.T.I.' included a take on METALLICA's 'The Memory Remains'. Hellhammer decamped just upfront of the album release in March of 2003. Session personnel RAM-ZET drummer Küth and APOPTYGMA BERZERK keyboard player Geir Bratland were inducted for subsequent live work.

Later that year Lex Icon took time out to act as session vocalist and bassist in studio recordings for CROWHEAD. THE KOVENANT assembled to craft a new album, tentatively titled 'The Dreaming Spires', in the Autumn of 2004.

2005 found Kex Icon working with "Nekro Doomsday Rock 'n Roll" project CHROME DIVISION in union with Shagrath of DIMMU BORGIR.