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Wrongdoers is the sixth studio album by American metalcore band Norma Jean. The album was released on August 6, 2013, and is the band's second release through Razor & Tie. It is the first album to feature guitarist Jeff Hickey, bassist John Finnegan and drummer Clayton Holyoak. Wrongdoers garnered critical acclamation by music critics at such publications as Alternative Press, Decibel, Exclaim! and Revolver Magazine, and sold 8,340 copies in its first week.

Vocalist Cory Brandan said about the album "We also slapped some old school classic Norma Jean nastiness on it. We really struggled between wanting to have the fastest songs we've ever written to having the most groove driven songs, so the record is about half and half."

Brandan also stated that the band "felt it was best to push it back and make sure we didn't put out something that we were going to be less satisfied with," and that they had "experimented with strings, piano, organ, percussion and tons of live tracks that all will be present on this record."

Wrongdoers was produced by Josh Barber, while the mixing was done by Jeremy SH Griffith, the producer of the band's previous album Meridional.

Wrongdoers was made available for pre-order in July 2013 with a few different packages available containing various assortments of band merchandise, paired with a CD or Vinyl version of the album. All pre-order packages included a free and instant download of the song "If You Got It at Five, You Got It at Fifty" off of the album.

"If You Got It at Five, You Got It at Fifty" was premiered on MetalSucks on July 24, 2013. MetalSucks wrote that "it's fast, it's grindy, it's metal, it's punk rock, it's everything you want Norma Jean to be." Metal injection's Greg Kennelty said the song was "way heavier than I thought it would be. Like, a lot heavier."

Norma Jean created a set of limited edition 3.5-inch vinyl records of the single "AHH! SHARK BITE AHH!" which were hand stamped and available as an add on with a pre-order of the album.

Norma Jean also released a series of documentary teasers about their progress on the album titled "The Making of Wrongdoers". The full documentary is available exclusively with an iTunes purchase of the album.

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