Devil's Gift - Devil's Gift

Published September 12 2008

*=Staff's pick	Looking For Jesus* Shadow Never Ending Victim Damned Angels Final Words Sacrifice Beautiful You All That You Left Nobody* Hold On* Bleed You Out Game Show Winner One On One*

Genre	Alternative Metal	Lennon Murphy	Vocals
Tracks	13	Jason Suecof	Guitar
Runningtime	40 Min.	-	Guitar
Label	Tiefdruck Musik	Jason Suecof	Bass
Release	26 September 2008	David Eltich	Drums
Country	USA	Lennon Murphy	Keyboard
Similar artists	Drain, Arch Enemy

Lennon Murphy, who got some free marketing when she got sued by John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono for using her birth name as an artist, is the main woman behind this project. Here she is sided by Jason Suecof, producer for Trivium, Chimaira, DevilDriver etc.

Looking For Jesus is heavy alternative metal, reminding a bit of Drain crossed with Evanescence, with soft harmonic vocals. But on Shadow Never Ending Lennon takes it a step further and bursts out in deep, almost Angela Gossow-growl-like screaming. Victim combines the two, and so it goes. Actually, though I like the spirit in the screaming parts, it works better musically with the soft vocals. Final Words for example just gets me soar ears. Slightly softer rockers like Nobody, Hold On and One On One have some good features and tendencies though.

Looking For Jesus is a promising start, which brings you hopes of something good to come. But song after song passes and finally you realize in the end that it was the best song. Though it is 13 tracks the record is less than 40 minutes long. Actually that is the ideal length for this kind of music (no pun intended). So, to sum up, Lennon is a true talent and a great, diverse singer. But she needs a bit steadier material to work with. If it wasn't for the name-thing, would anyone really had noticed?

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
6	7	6	7	4

Summary
5 chalices of 10 - David