Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child

by Norma Jean

Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 13 August 2002
  • Label: Solid State
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 58:23
  • Community rating: 4/5 from 8 ratings

Artists on this release: Roy Culver, Joshua Scogin, Serenade, Daniel Davison, Joshua Doolittle, Scottie Henry, Aaron Weiss, Christopher Day

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Originally performing under the moniker Luti-Kriss, the Georgia quintet entirely reinvented themselves with this monumentally abrasive debut. Featuring Josh Scogin's terrifying, throat-shredding vocal performance, the incredibly dense, feedback-laden production cemented it as a defining masterpiece of extreme Christian metalcore.

Genres

Descriptors: christian, dissonant, uncommon-time-signatures, technical, screaming, DIY, fast, harsh-vocals

Tracklist

  1. The Entire World Is Counting On Me And They Don't Even Know It (3:10)
  2. Face:Face (3:30)
  3. Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste (4:55)
  4. Creating Something Out Of Nothing Only To Destroy It (6:21)
  5. Pretty Soon I Don't Know What But Something Is Going To Happen (15:49)
  6. The Shotgun Message (1:37)
  7. Sometimes It's Our Mistakes That Make For The Greatest Ideas (3:15)
  8. I Used To Hate Cell Phones But Now I Hate Car Accidents (5:02)
  9. It Was As If The Dead Man Stood Upon The Air (1:30)
  10. The Human Face Divine (5:40)
  11. Organized Beyond Recognition (7:28)

Credits

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