Covenant is the fifteenth album by the British hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band UFO

UFO (band)

UFO are an English heavy metal and hard rock band, who were formed in 1969. UFO became a transitional group between early hard rock and heavy metal and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal...

. It was published as a limited edition 2-disc album, with disc 1, entitled Covenant, containing entirely new material, and disc 2, entitled UFO Live USA, containing a collection of classics performed live. Covenant saw the return of Michael Schenker

Michael Schenker

Michael Schenker is a German rock guitarist, best known for his tenure in UFO, in addition to his solo band. He first rose to fame as a founding member of the Scorpions, then achieved fame in the mid 1970s as the lead guitar player for UFO. Since leaving UFO in 1978, he has been leading the...

 on guitar, as he had left the band in the middle of the Walk on Water tour.

Covenant (CD 1)

1. "Love Is Forever" (Michael Schenker
   Michael Schenker
   Michael Schenker is a German rock guitarist, best known for his tenure in UFO, in addition to his solo band. He first rose to fame as a founding member of the Scorpions, then achieved fame in the mid 1970s as the lead guitar player for UFO. Since leaving UFO in 1978, he has been leading the...
   
   , Phil Mogg
   Phil Mogg
   Phillip John 'Phil' Mogg is a vocalist for the band UFO, which he formed with longtime friends Pete Way and Andy Parker. Mogg wrote the majority of the band's lyrics, with the music being written by Way, Schenker, and later, Raymond, but Schenker left to launch his solo career in 1979...
   
   ) – 4:22
2. "Unraveled" (Pete Way
   Pete Way
   Peter 'Pete' Frederick Way is a bass player.He is the bassist of UFO, Waysted and formerly, Fastway and Ozzy Osbourne....
   
   , Mogg) – 4:16
3. "Miss the Lights" (Schenker, Mogg) – 4:43
4. "Midnight Train" (Schenker, Mogg) – 4:55
5. "Fool's Gold" (Schenker, Mogg) – 5:36
6. "In the Middle of Madness" (Schenker, Mogg) – 3:48
7. "The Smell of Money" (Schenker, Mogg) – 3:44
8. "Rise Again" (Way, Mogg) – 4:30
9. "Serenade" (Schenker, Mogg) – 5:00
10. "Cowboy Joe" (Schenker, Mogg) – 4:13
11. "The World and His Dog" (Schenker, Mogg) – 3:35

UFO Live USA (CD 2)

1. "Mother Mary" (Schenker, Mogg) – 3:52
2. "This Kids" (Schenker, Mogg) – 4:07
3. "Let It Roll" (Schenker, Mogg) – 4:41
4. "Out in the Street" (Way, Mogg) – 5:07
5. "Venus" (Schenker, Mogg) – 4:51
6. "Pushed to the Limit" (Schenker, Mogg) – 4:07
7. "Love to Love" (Schenker, Mogg) – 7:16

Curiosity

On CD 2, the following incorrect order of tracks is printed on the cover and on the disc itself:

1. Mother Mary
2. Let It Roll
3. This Kids
4. Love to Love
5. Out in the Street
6. Pushed to the Limit
7. Venus

Band members

• Phil Mogg
  Phil Mogg
  Phillip John 'Phil' Mogg is a vocalist for the band UFO, which he formed with longtime friends Pete Way and Andy Parker. Mogg wrote the majority of the band's lyrics, with the music being written by Way, Schenker, and later, Raymond, but Schenker left to launch his solo career in 1979...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Michael Schenker
  Michael Schenker
  Michael Schenker is a German rock guitarist, best known for his tenure in UFO, in addition to his solo band. He first rose to fame as a founding member of the Scorpions, then achieved fame in the mid 1970s as the lead guitar player for UFO. Since leaving UFO in 1978, he has been leading the...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Pete Way
  Pete Way
  Peter 'Pete' Frederick Way is a bass player.He is the bassist of UFO, Waysted and formerly, Fastway and Ozzy Osbourne....
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Aynsley Dunbar
  Aynsley Dunbar
  Aynsley Thomas Dunbar is an English drummer. He has worked with some of the top names in rock, including Eric Burdon, John Mayall, Frank Zappa, Ian Hunter, Lou Reed, Jefferson Starship, Jeff Beck, David Bowie, Whitesnake, Sammy Hagar, UFO, and Journey...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  

• Simon Wright
  Simon Wright
  Simon Wright is an English drummer best known for his stints with rock n' roll bands AC/DC and Dio. He first started playing drums at the age of 13 and cites Cozy Powell, Tommy Aldridge and John Bonham as his greatest influences...
  
   - drums (on UFO Live USA)
• Paul Raymond
  Paul Raymond (musician)
  Paul Martin Raymond is an English keyboardist/guitarist.Raymond began his musical career as a keyboardist/vocalist for the band, Plastic Penny, in 1967. He left after the band split up in 1968. He replaced Christine Perfect in British blues band Chicken Shack when she left to join Fleetwood Mac...
  
   - guitar, keyboards (on UFO Live USA)

Production

• Mike Varney
  Mike Varney
  Mike Varney is an American musician, record producer, music publisher and impresario. He is the founder of the Shrapnel Label Group, which includes Shrapnel Records, Tone Center Records and Blues Bureau International. He also has a 50% stake in Magna Carta Records, a New York-based label...
  
  – producer
• Ralph Patlan – associate producer, engineer, mixing, mastering
• Joe Marquez – engineer, mixing
• Luis Maldonado – engineer, backing vocals
• Gene Cornelius – assistant engineer
• Tim Gennert – mastering
• Steve Jennings – photography