Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child is the debut studio album by American metalcore band Norma Jean, released on August 13, 2002 by Solid State Records. It is the band's only album to feature bassist Joshua Doolittle and vocalist Josh Scogin, the latter of whom later became the lead vocalist of The Chariot. Read more on Last.fm.
In a heavy music niche that dragged itself face-first into a grave of self-parody faster than Fred Durst did for his own set, it’s an unreal, visceral, ghostly, time-tested relic of all that could have been.
When the ‘metalcore’ gods decided which route to go, I wish they’d gone down this rabbit hole.