Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child

Label: Tooth & Nail
Release date: 13 Aug 2002
Running length: 12 tracks
Running time: 60:25

Tracklist

	Track	Duration	Listeners
1	The Entire World Is Counting on Me, and They Don't Even Know It	3:10	29,444
2	Face:Face	3:30	8,165
3	Memphis Will Be Laid to Waste	4:55	72,688
4	Creating Something Out of Nothing, Only to Destroy It	6:21	28,547
5	Pretty Soon, I Don't Know What, but Something Is Going to Happen	15:49	22,729
6	The Shotgun Message	1:37	32,423
7	Sometimes It's Our Mistakes That Make for the Greatest Ideas	3:15	22,218
8	I Used to Hate Cell Phones but Now I Hate Car Accidents	5:02	23,340
9	Instrumental	2:07	56
10	It Was as If the Dead Man Stood Upon the Air	1:30	21,146
11	The Human Face, Divine	5:41	39,247
12	Organized Beyond Recognition	7:28	26,616

About this album

Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child is the debut album by American Christian metalcore band Norma Jean, released in 2002 by Solid State Records. This album was the band’s only one to feature vocalist Josh Scogin, who is now the lead vocalist of The Chariot. Aaron Weiss of mewithoutYou appears on the track Memphis Will be Laid to Waste courtesy of Tooth & Nail Records. Memphis Will be Laid to Waste had a music video featuring a curious story concept featuring subtitles. It aired on Uranium and Headbangers Ball.