Yes I was also under the impression You Fail Me and Jane Doe are considered their best. I am also in that camp.
You Fail Me is definitely my go to. It was one of my gateway albums into heavier, more menacing music.
Agreed. I was listening to “Penny Margs” this morning when that realization hit me. It’s the perfect representation of the album - moody, grungy, unpredictable, punishingly heavy, and just a bit unsettling.
Yes! The album just blends everything they've been doing together in a really great cohesive album. There's some cleaner vocals but not too much, there's the punishing heaviness, there's atmospherics. It's all just there. Loving it so much.
The delivery of the line “I can suffer so much better than you” in Any% is one of my favorite moments of any record this year.
Every time I listen to that outro to Spearmint Revolt in the car, I feel like I'm going to bust my speakers.
I would probably pick Radical over anything between ETID and NJ… but Wrongdoers and Death Rattle aren’t far behind. Death Rattle is easily in top 3 status for NJ’s discography. It’s just so good.
Am I crazy or does the end of this sound like a re-record of Murderotica from O’God? That would be insane.
Cautiously interested in a re-record of O God. I have a very strong connection to how the original sounds, and the members who played on it. But that clip sounded good. I’ll be a loser and buy it no matter what obviously.
Yep, me too. It’s interesting, I’ll never not love the original recording and I know the band isn’t interested in erasing that version, but it WOULD be exciting to hear that chaotic music and that relentless energy funneled through the current members - even Cory, who screams much higher than he did while originally recording O’ God.
The original recording took me years to fully get into due to the roughness so I very much welcome a new version. Cory will be the biggest improvement, going from his monotone performance on it to the wide range he displays more and more over the years. I'm sure this would sound even filthier even if put through a more polished and modern lens.
Random but I revisited his first side project, Fear Is The Driving Force, and it's interesting that almost all the other members in the two line ups listed on their page are now part of Norma Jean.
A remake of Oh God would actually be amazing. Only Norma Jean album I can't get into. I appreciate their musicianship, but the production is so rough and Cory is so incomprehensible that it briefly puts me in the shoes of my parents listening to hardcore and thinking it's just noise.