Translated from the original French
And you thought that female vocals were not worth as much as male vocals...?!! Think again, because Lisa Faxon, RANSOM's singer, has a metal voice, and she knows how to sing!!!... Woaw! What a voice!! Just listen to "Sticks And Stones"!!... Yeah, now those are quality vocals!! RANSOM's sound is heavy, but very melodic. Their music is solid, nicely four-square, with very powerful choruses ("Sticks And Stones", "Sin Killer"). "Sin Killer" is in fact the track that appears on the compilation CALIFORNIA METAL II. "Son of the Dawn, fallen from heaven / I know the One who came to destroy your works / Woe to you, my worst enemy". The third and last track on "Once And For All" is a slow: "To Be Like You". Acoustic intro and a hint of keyboards. The slow is one of the most beautiful slows in Christian hard, and it gets you right "there": "What do you see when you look into your eyes? Do you see the love of the Father, the One who gives life? What do you feel when we touch you? Do you feel the love of the Father, a strength in the night?" This three-track demo has a top-level sound. The band offers a very direct message, full of the love of God. Get hold of this demo "Once And For All", once and for all...!!! "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but Hell will never burn me!!" (from "Sticks And Stones").
Other coverage for this album
Heaven's Metal #20Reviewed by Doug Van PeltRansom's Lisa Faxon proves that girls can sing metal/hard rock. I guess I always knew they could, because of Ann Wilson of Heart, but I'd definitely never heard a female voice I really liked in Christian metal/hard rock. Lisa's vocals are powerful and gritty, without cracking or possessing only half a range. "Sin Killer", the cut from the Cal Metal 2 album, is a hot tune, showing off Ransom's…
