In 2013, Coven returned with Jinx, their first album of new material in nearly four decades, and in 2017 the band coheadlined the Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Netherlands.Since then they’ve ...

Esther Jinx Dawson attained a measure of infamy in 1969, when Esquire magazine suggested that Coven's debut album helped to cultivate a diabolical Southern California scene that gave rise to the ...

A couple more albums with fall less explicit occult fascination followed -- the self-titled Coven in 1971 and Blood on the Snow three years later -- but the group would eventually split up.

Jinx Dawson, Coven frontwoman and arguably heavy metal's founder, ... the album has been around longer than most classic metal albums and bands. That record turns 50 today.

Coven, led by singer Jinx Dawson, released Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls in 1969, ... In 2013, Coven released Jinx, its first album of new material since 1974's Blood on the Snow.

Jinx Dawson reflects on Coven's mystifying history. ... And on Coven’s next two albums—1971’s Coven and 1974’s Blood on the Snow—labels and producers attempted to steer them away from ...

Coven and Lucifer Announce Fall 2023 North American Tour Spencer Kaufman. ... The band last released an album 10 years ago, 2013’s Jinx. Lucifer, made up of Swedish and German members, ...

Bluesmen gave it its desolate soul, but in the late 60’s, Coven draped it in black velvet, lit the candles, and sacrificed it, fanning the flames straight back down to Lucifer. In the ensuing decades ...

The album — released, perhaps, ahead of its time — fused occult themes with rock music. Often described as a cult record, its influence has spread too far and too deep to be so easily ...