Well, look on the cover of this first official full-length of this US-based act – isn’t she-devil Erica Dunham not a real sweetheart? With fake blood on her hands and in her face she really gives you a first impression what you’ll get to hear here. After the signing with Alfa Matrix it took a while until this Seattle-based female-leaded act could get ready with this release. In between there were some nice and highly acclaimed compilation appearances like on "Endzeit Bunkertracks Act 1" or the 5th chapter of the Interbreeding series – and also her pre-released appetizer "Sick Fuck" - to me still her most horrible effort at all! Yep, my expectations were pretty low after this EP and I made myself some scary thoughts of what there would be still to come. Finally Alfa Matrix had the right nose and taste for the musical talent of Ms Dunham and she really surprised me positively with "The Failure Epiphany". The given info sheet describes her as the "female soldier in the SUICIDE COMMANDO league". Sorry, but this fails – it doesn’t end at all with the use of some slight distorted bass kicks to fit with this comparison. Lets call her better as a female Bryan Erickson aka VAC – this would fit with the fake blood, the splatter movie influences, the lyrical content of this whole CD and most especially with the well worked out synth layers and the scary mood they offer. She really impresses me with her dark and depressive synth work, so no real wonder that I prefer her calmer tracks like "Silence" or the marvelous "You Have Fallen From Grace". Of course this CD also features a lot of food to storm the floors of the dark clubs, "Martyr", "Your Nightmare" or "ZombieBoy" can be named here easily. A note also to the sound of the vocals: I had to spin this release 2 – 3 times to find acceptance to her rough distorted, almost alien-like kind of vocal penetration. On some pieces I would wish her for the future to find a cleaner style – to fill in a better balance could be a nice develop. Len Lemeire of IMPLANT has produced this album and it seems that he gets more and more exposure for his studio work – again a very nice and professional work. So you get here a hard-kicking and enjoyable Electro/Industrial album and Erica Dunham will find her place as one of the hardest female-leaded acts. Look also out for some live performances of her if you’re not afraid to deal with blood...