Album Review: Norma Jean - Wrongdoers

After over a decade delivering jaggedly rhythmic, sludge riff-driven knuckle-dusters, Georgian metalcore five-piece Norma Jean naturally emit a sense of ballsy bravado within their sixth album, Wrongdoers. In this case the title doesn't say it all; narrative-infused tracks like single If You Got It At Five, You Got It and Sword In Mouth, Fire Eyes, are the perfect billboards for Cory Brandan Putman's Maynard James Keenan-esque croon that gives way to a fiendish growl in Neck In The Hemp. Musically diverse and tight as a dolphin's butt, Norma Jean continue to deliver.