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
