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New Jersey-based metallers DEADLY BLESSING have announced the addition of singer Stephen Childs to the group's ranks.

"Having meetings, and jamming with Stephen over the past month, the members of DEADLY BLESSING and Stephen have bonded with a new chemistry that seems to be a perfect fit with the new songs that the band is writing," the group writes in a press release. "DEADLY BLESSING are very happy with Stephen's performances."

Childs, who runs a local music school called Musically Speaking and teaches voice and guitar, reportedly sounds like a cross between Ray Alder (FATES WARNING) and Bruce Dickinson (IRON MAIDEN). A new demo track for the song "Bullets" can be heard at http://www.myspace.com/tom_umba.

DEADLY BLESSING's previous vocalist, Ski, left the band last November to devote his life to God and his Christian metal outfit FAITH FACTOR.

As reported earlier today, New Jersey-based holy metallers FAITH FACTOR, fronted by former DEADLY BLESSING vocalist Ski, are releasing their debut album, Against A Darkened Sky, on November 1st via Retroactive Records.

The tracklisting is as follows: 'Evila Si Eh', 'Keep It True', 'The Rapture', 'In Gods Shadow', 'In Remeberance', 'Light Replaces Darkness', 'Armor Of God', 'Divine Temptation', 'Ascend Unto Heaven', 'Sinners Prayer'.