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, and the last album with longtime guitarist Chris Day. 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. At Allmusic, Gregory Heaney said the album had various tempos and textures in the music. The likes of Decibel's Jeff Treppel stated it was very assertive from a musical standpoint, and Jason Schreurs of Alternative Press wrote that the music may have exceeded their former