Way back when I was just a wee little boy discovering "heavy" music for the first time I came across this little known band called Norma Jean. Their spontaneity and raw aggressiveness really struck a chord with me; the music reached out, grabbed hold of my neck and rang it out to dry. Amid the sea of Botch impersonators, they were really doing something different in a scene plagued by unoriginality and malaise.
