NORMA JEAN BOOTH GUITEAU CZOLGOSZ OSWALD

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 12:07pm by

Norma Jean have been playing their excellent Bless Yo Mama and Kill the Chives (or whatever its called) in its entirety on their most recent tour, and I’m hopeful that re-living those songs night after night will give the band back some of the piss n’ vinegar they lost on their last two albums, Redeemer and The Anti Mother, both of which I thought were watered down and missing the sense of “What the fuck will they do next?” that made Bless and O God, the Aftermath so great.

That being said… they’ve also been playing a new song, “Kill More Presidents,” on this tour, and while the usual YouTube bootlegs are all I have to go on, they’re of fairly decent audio quality, and I don’t find the track encouraging. This sounds like more of the fairly typical metalcore stuff the band specialized in on those last two ho-hum outings.

Here’s the first video, which was originally posted on Blabbermouth. There’s another one after the jump. As usual, you can argue about the track in our comments section.

-AR

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  • Kuranes

    Suck. And that fatso looks like Attack Attack!’s former singer.

  • wtfhax

    old stuff is not bad. was definitely sad to see them barely get a crowd at Warped Tour in 2008 because at the same time, everyone went to go see Devil Wears Prada. Shit bands like that wouldn’t even exist if it weren’t for Norma Jean. Guilty pleasure for sure.

  • Uglymicrowave

    the only time this band mattered is when josh scogin was there singer…fuck this fat retard. Everything he’s ever done with the band blows balls…what a disapointment

  • Hot Carl

    first comment to like this song! i wasn’t blown away but its solid. When did the singer gain so much weight? Is he pulling a Jimmy Ryan?

  • John

    Actually, this band sucked until they started ripping off botch really hard. Everything except o god the aftermath is complete shit. And yes, that does include that one coalesce album they released too

  • KC

    Song’s not bad, definitely not great either though. I actually like Anti-Mother quite a bit because I like it when bands basically say “fuck this, let’s write what we want.” They have definitely followed that path. Then again I think anything would be an improvement over O’God, or should I say “Collection of Botch B-Sides we’re passing off as our own shit.” That’s basically what that album is.

    • John

      It was literally just we are the romans/an anthology of dead ends chopped up and put back together. Thats why I liked it. Antimother sounded like norma jean trying to be underoath.

  • cosk!

    if this album blows and sounds all like this, i will officially give up on this band. Ive waited soooooo long holding out hope that they would return to form and start doing the “botch” thing again….. I guess ill just wait and download it…..

  • orbital

    meh, I like this band.

  • Kregg

    While I miss Josh Scogin I think I miss Daniel Davison more. His jerky drum style added a lot to the older records.

  • meow

    Norma Jean went to shit when Josh left. Personally, I don’t really like anything The Chariot have done either so I guess Josh went to shit as well. This song was pretty meh.

  • SP420

    You guys post praise about this fucking band, and then rag on Limp Bizkit? Jesus christ…

  • DustintheWind

    How come christians dont use curse words? They’re just words, you can still be a good person while dropping an f-bomb every now and then.. “Upload that sucker” phhhhhhhhhhhh

  • matty k

    ugh…as someone who didn’t even exactly “hate” Redeemer, the anti-mother was a let down in every fucking sense of the word. Though this sounds slightly heavier its got that same fucking bullshit chorus. This guy CAN NOT SING.