The Swedish-German Heavy Rockers Lucifer have once again a released a non-album-related standalone single. And since those are always cool I ordered a copy via elk mail as soon as I was made aware of it.
LUCIFER / SISTER MIDNIGHT - Split (golden vinyl 7") (2025*)
The golden 7" is a split release of cover versions with featured guest singers, so ultimately it almost takes longer to list all relevant names than to listen to the whole thing.
On the first side Lucifer are playing the Leonard Cohen song "Who By Fire" as a duet of Johanna Platow and the thousand-year-old oak of Doom, Pentagram's Bobby Liebling. Am I the biggest fan of his voice? Nah, it's a bit crusty in a weird way. But the combination with Johanna's Heart timbre makes an interesting contrast - and in comparison to the singer/songwriter performance of Cohen it actually works as a rawer approach to the song, which also instrumentally is turned into a very compelling Hard Rock hymn with phenomal guitar solos.
The superior vocal performance of the single however can be heard on the other side - and it comes from Johanna too, who is the featured guest here. Sister Midnight is a cover project with rotating vocalists, and since the original of the song - Nazareth's "Sold My Soul" - is much closer to their own style, this very much feels like a Mark III of Lucifer with a different line-up and a sound closer to the Doom roots of Mark I.
Anyway, it's a great rendition and especially with the "I soooold my soooouul to the Deviiiiil!" belts at the end Johanna really goes all in on this one. Love it!
So please decode the implied message of the Sister Midnight side's artwork, shut up and give Lucifer your money (and soul)!
On the first side Lucifer are playing the Leonard Cohen song "Who By Fire" as a duet of Johanna Platow and the thousand-year-old oak of Doom, Pentagram's Bobby Liebling. Am I the biggest fan of his voice? Nah, it's a bit crusty in a weird way. But the combination with Johanna's Heart timbre makes an interesting contrast - and in comparison to the singer/songwriter performance of Cohen it actually works as a rawer approach to the song, which also instrumentally is turned into a very compelling Hard Rock hymn with phenomal guitar solos.
The superior vocal performance of the single however can be heard on the other side - and it comes from Johanna too, who is the featured guest here. Sister Midnight is a cover project with rotating vocalists, and since the original of the song - Nazareth's "Sold My Soul" - is much closer to their own style, this very much feels like a Mark III of Lucifer with a different line-up and a sound closer to the Doom roots of Mark I.
Anyway, it's a great rendition and especially with the "I soooold my soooouul to the Deviiiiil!" belts at the end Johanna really goes all in on this one. Love it!
So please decode the implied message of the Sister Midnight side's artwork, shut up and give Lucifer your money (and soul)!
* I know, I know. Officially this probably counts as a 2024 release, but I tend to go with the availibility of the actual record. And already planning forward twelve months I also want to enable this thing to have a fair chance at the next best of the year season.
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