Redeemer

About Redeemer

Redeemer is the third studio album by American metalcore band Norma Jean. It was released on September 12, 2006 in the United States, and on October 3, 2006 in Canada. The album sold more than 21,000 records in its first week. It is the last album to feature drummer Daniel Davison. For this album they filmed videos for "Blueprints for Future Homes", and "Songs Sound Much Sadder". Shannon Crawford, the singer of Cellophane and Monster in the Machine, painted the album artwork, in which musician Poppy Jean Crawford is depicted as the girl being attacked by a crow.

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Personnel

Norma Jean

Cory Brandan - vocals, guitars

Scottie Henry - guitars

Chris Day - guitars

Jake Schultz - bass guitar

Daniel Davison - drums

Additional musicians

Matthew Putman - percussion and additional drums

Production

Ross Robinson - mixing

Ryan Boesch - engineering, mixing

Kale Holmes - assistant engineer

Asterik Studio - art direction, design

Shannon Crawford - album art paintings

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Notable quotes

“REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religion, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
“Now, the redemption which we as yet await (continued Imlac), will be that of Kalki, who will come as a Silver Stallion: all evils and every sort of folly will perish at the coming of this Kalki: true righteousness will be restored, and the minds of men will be made as clear as crystal.”
— James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion: A Comedy of Redemption (1926), epigraph, based upon the style of Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), as if quoting Imlac the philosopher in Johnson's tale.
“Feeling the unity of himself and the universe, the man who lives in spirit is no more a separate and self-centered individual but a vehicle of the universal spirit. … He throws himself on the world and lives for its redemption, possessed as he is with an unshakable sense of optimism and an unlimited faith in the powers of the soul.”
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, An Idealist View of Life (1929).
“O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.”
— Horace Bushnell, p. 488.
“Christ is redemption only as He actually redeems and delivers our nature from sin. If He is not the law and spring of a new spirit of life, He is nothing. "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God," — as many, no more.”
— Horace Bushnell, p. 489.
“Look, therefore, which way we will, whether at the direct Scriptural statements of death as the penalty of sin, or at the agony of the cross as a means of rescue, or at the joy of the angels of God over a rescue; we see from either that it must be a work of infinite and eternal consequence — the work of redemption.”
— Herrick Johnson, p. 490.

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