With new lead singer Geoff Jenkins leading the charge, Gwen Stacy surges its way through a blistering set that invokes a sense of both Spirit-filled exaltation and sin-haunted terror. Jenkins’ defiant gasps and snarls are counterpointed by bassist Brent Schindler’s sweetly soaring background vocals, heightening the tension in tracks like “The First Words” and “Profit Motive.” T.J. Sego’s assault-rifle drum-fire adds further manic energy to “Braveheart,” “A Dialogue” and similar jeremiads. Gwen Stacy doesn’t lounge upon a cushion of easy faith — “Words of the New Prophet” and “Addictionary” bristle with divine discontent and yearning. “Devil Devil” is especially potent stuff, a full-frontal incursion into the Kingdom of Satan with no quarter asked or given. The album comes to a slow-burning conclusion with “The Sound of Letting Go,” a meditation upon morality that shifts from ghostly calm to volcanic fury. Impressively, the band manages to maintain its melodic sense amidst all this sturm und drang; “Creation and How I See It” is almost punk-pop in feel.