With expanded categories for their life and music, Norma Jean have once more set themselves apart, choosing the narrow path to deliver an album that sounds like a debut, hits like a veteran and commands like a champion. “For us it's not just about writing a bunch of riffs and throwing them down,” asserts Brandan. “We do not cut any corners when we create, and I'm proud of what we made.

Wrongdoers is not the extra chapter at the end of a great book, it's the beginning of a whole new story. You may be familiar with the visceral language and palette employed by Norma Jean, but this is a new sound, powerfully regenerated and re-imagined for what lies ahead. “There's a lot on this record about love,” he continues. “The Smashing Pumpkins, one of my favourite bands, used to write really aggressive songs about love. I always shied away from writing about love in the past but something changed, I embraced it and found a way to write about the difficulty to truly know love and be able to show it. There's something new going on with the band at the moment, let's see where it leads.”