{"id":6210,"date":"2012-05-28T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=6210"},"modified":"2013-06-01T14:20:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T14:20:05","slug":"ep-review-sarah-jezebel-deva-malediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-sarah-jezebel-deva-malediction\/","title":{"rendered":"SARAH JEZEBEL DEVA – Malediction EP (2012) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SARAH JEZEBEL DEVA
Malediction EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nListenable (2012)<\/span>
Rating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Malediction<\/em> is the latest release from longtime Cradle of Filth alumnus Sarah Jezebel Deva. It comes on the heels of The Corruption Of Mercy<\/em> (2011), her sophomore full-length under her own moniker. It features three songs with guest appearances by Dani Filth (Cradle of Filth) and Bj\u00f6rn \u201cSpeed\u201d Strid (Soilwork). <\/p>\n

The EP opens with \u2018This is My Curse\u2019, a crushingly haunting number that brings to mind major label era Cradle of Filth, so much that one has to wonder if it could possibly be an unused song? <\/p>\n

Deva sounds great here and takes on the majority of the vocal work, but Filth\u2019s presence takes too much precedence and it\u2019s hard to focus on her as opposed to him. Perhaps it\u2019s simply a subconscious thing given their history together. It\u2019s good but it certainly is something we have heard many times before.<\/p>\n

\u2018Lies Define Us\u2019, featuring Bj\u00f6rn Strid, is up next and takes a slightly less malicious tone that is led by some wonderful piano work. Deva\u2019s voice really takes off here, setting fire to any thoughts that she can\u2019t step outside of the gothic backing vocals her history has given us so much of. Her vocal work is varied well on this song and Strid steps in in all the right places to give it just enough extra kick that you could imagine this really taking over heavy music airwaves worldwide. This is the highlight of the EP\u2019s trio of songs in my opinion.<\/p>\n

\u2018When \u2018It\u2019 Catches Up With You\u2019 is a bit of a blend of the other two tunes, offering a more eerie approach but an overall brighter sound and a much poppier vocal (at least \u201cpoppier\u201d for Deva). <\/p>\n

Overall, I think this is a much more interesting listen than either The Corruption of Mercy<\/em> or the Angtoria album (2006\u2019s God Has A Plan For Us All<\/em>) were. I\u2019m interested to see where Deva travels next as the Malediction<\/em> EP comes off very much like a test drive. I think Deva can travel far outside the norms of extreme metal and two of Malediction<\/em>\u2019s three songs seem to be interested in travelling to new places. <\/p>\n

Mark Fisher<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SARAH JEZEBEL DEVAMalediction EP Listenable (2012)Rating: 6.5\/10 Malediction is the latest release from longtime Cradle of Filth alumnus Sarah Jezebel Deva. It comes on the heels of The Corruption Of Mercy (2011), her sophomore full-length under her own moniker. It features three songs with guest appearances by Dani Filth (Cradle of Filth) and Bj\u00f6rn \u201cSpeed\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-sarah-jezebel-deva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6210"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6219,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions\/6219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}