Self-employed blogger. (Formerly known as "Discipline your bloggers.")
Okay, yeah, Jason's cooler than me -- he got to hear the new Underoath album in its entirety when he was in L.A. last week. But unlike him, I just got to jam two tracks off the other most anticipated metalcore release of this fall:
And even though it's only two tracks, I'm sufficiently impressed. One song, "Death Of The Anti Mother," is slow and sludgy (a fair comparison could be Baroness or ISIS), and the other, "Self-Employed Chemist" (mislabeled as "Discipline Your Daughters" when originally sent to me) is very uptempo and strangely melodic, with semi-clean vocals throughout that, in a bizarre way, sound sort of like Jason Shevchuk (Kid Dynamite/None More Black). Neither are what people have come to expect from Norma Jean (and more importantly, neither sound like Botch), and both songs are making me wonder why it took me until right now to realize this band kind of totally rules. They will definitely be on my bands-to-watch list when I'm on Warped this summer (July 27-August 3 -- you better say hi to me if you're gonna be there, too).
I wish I could be some maverick, renegade blogger and post the songs on here for all to enjoy, but I like my job and have every intention on keeping it for a while. However, I will post this video of the band working on a new song in the studio with Ross Robinson(!) and Chino Moreno(!!):
And even though it's only two tracks, I'm sufficiently impressed. One song, "Death Of The Anti Mother," is slow and sludgy (a fair comparison could be Baroness or ISIS), and the other, "Self-Employed Chemist" (mislabeled as "Discipline Your Daughters" when originally sent to me) is very uptempo and strangely melodic, with semi-clean vocals throughout that, in a bizarre way, sound sort of like Jason Shevchuk (Kid Dynamite/None More Black). Neither are what people have come to expect from Norma Jean (and more importantly, neither sound like Botch), and both songs are making me wonder why it took me until right now to realize this band kind of totally rules. They will definitely be on my bands-to-watch list when I'm on Warped this summer (July 27-August 3 -- you better say hi to me if you're gonna be there, too).
I wish I could be some maverick, renegade blogger and post the songs on here for all to enjoy, but I like my job and have every intention on keeping it for a while. However, I will post this video of the band working on a new song in the studio with Ross Robinson(!) and Chino Moreno(!!):
Labels: awesome, norma jean
9 Comments:
you guys fail at gloating about hearing music...since both norma jean and underoath are horrible
let me know when you hear the new gaslight, then i shall be proper jealous
-Jon
I've had the new Gaslight record for about two months now. It rules.
I would be jealous about this, since both Underoath and Norma Jean are freaking awesome, but I'm tired and sore right now, and I'll hear those albums soon enough.
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Okay I'm a little jealous.
Scott, you have my mailing address. I expect the gaslight album in no less than a week.
love,
Jon
yeeeah um as awesome as that is jason is still cooler sorry
haha but i will swing by the AP tent and say hi at the cinci warped for sure!
Scott: I'm going to smash my copy of the GA advance in retaliation for jps' commentary about our alleged gloating shortcomings. So keep yours nearby. Thanks.
You guys are such warm-hearted people. We should all be jealous.
Pee Ess.
Take that with a spoon of salt, or don't. [Sarcasm? That's up to you.]
We're far warmer than anyone at, say, Pitchfork. But I'm still gonna go with sarcasm. Scott?
I hate you now Scott..
When does that NJ disc come out anyways?
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