Morbid Angel – Covenant

Covenant is the third studio album by American death metal band Morbid Angel, released on June 1, 1993. The album proved to be the band’s breakthrough, due to their contract with Giant Records and its widespread exposure on MTV’s Headbangers Ball, as well as the music video for “God of Emptiness” appearing on Beavis and Butt-head. It is frequently described as one of the greatest death metal albums of all time, and a landmark album in the genre, influencing countless future metal bands, including Mithras, Portal, and Dead Congregation. According to Nielsen Soundscan, Covenant was the best selling death metal album as of 2003, with sales of over 150,000 in the United States alone. In 2017, Rolling Stone named it the 75th best metal album of all time.