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With their fifth full length studio disc and first for Razor & Tie, Atlanta's post-hardcore giants Norma Jean have delivered what many will come to regard as the heavy music album of 2010. Building on the sonic bedlam that has already earned the group an ever-swelling and tremendously loyal global following, Meridional is the aggressive, artful follow up to 2008's widely acclaimed studio effort The Anti Mother. It's perhaps the ideal representation of what Norma Jean has become known for – unrelenting, innovative and exceptionally good songs.

When pressed to explain how the band keeps managing to up its game with each successive studio effort, longtime lead vocalist and guitarist Cory Brandan modestly addresses the peerless end product that is Meridional. "We have all become very comfortable as a team of writers and musicians," Brandan explains. "More and more as we continue to create we become less of a band and more of an artistic collaborative." When it came time for the members of Norma Jean to hear the final, completed sequence of Meridional, drummer Chris Raines says the band was elated. "Honestly, we felt proud. Proud of this band and everything we have gone through in the last few years.”

But if Meridional sounds like a game changer in the metalcore realm, it didn't come without concern for its audience. "With this record we asked ourselves 'What can we give?'" says Cory. "We just wanted to give something back to our older fans that have stuck with us through the years. But we didn't repeat ourselves." "It's a very different Norma Jean on this record," Brandan decrees. "We definitely kept it heavy, but it's a new kind of "Norma Jean" heavy."

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