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New Ways to Bear Witness

from The Cicada Tree (ALBUM) by Byzantine

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    6th studio album by WV groove metal band Byzantine.


    Official Release Date - July 23rd, 2017
    Courtesy of Metal Blade Records
    RED/CEN Distribution a division of SONY Music

    Track Listing:
    1. New Ways To Bear Witness
    2. Vile Maxim
    3. Map of the Creator
    4. Dead as Autumn Leaves
    5. Trapjaw
    6. The Subjugated
    7. Incremental
    8. The Cicada Tree
    9. Verses of Violence
    10. Moving in Stereo *
    11. Servitude *

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1. New Ways To Bear Witness

Violence imposed with max severity
Plagued by misery we can’t give up the ghost
When all you know in life is partiality
You flee so easily from pillar to the post
We’ll hold the line as beatings grow
And possibilities of fatalities

One day those victimized will revolt
Against a world that views them as less
Exposing all they know through a lens the stories told
Viralized with no end

Silent eyes awake to see official crime
By those that we rely, deceiving their own kind
Whispers once low, now they shout what matters most
Streaming evidence confirms what we have known
They tow the lies, it’s no surprise
Dividing us in hopes of disharmony

One day those victimized will revolt
Against a world that views them as less
Exposing all they know
Through a lens the stories told

My children live in a different world
And I hold myself to blame
As they redefine accountability

How can I ever know what’s good for you
When our faces are obscured by a screen
We need to touch, we need to feel, we need to hear
Or is it all just a dream

My children live in a different world
And I hope it’s not too late
As they’re taught to love with humility

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from The Cicada Tree (ALBUM), released July 28, 2017

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Byzantine West Virginia

Formed : 2000
Origin: West Virginia
Signed to Prosthetic Records 2004-2007.
Disbanded 2007.
Reformed in 2012 and released 2 albums independently.
Signed to Metal Blade Records in 2016. "The Cicada Tree" due out Summer 2017!

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