BYZANTINE is set to unleash its new studio album entitled “To Release Is To Resolve” on April 7th. Today the band offers a sample taste of it by premiering the track “The Agonies” HERE.
Explains frontman Chris Ojeda: “‘The Agonies’ is a street term for withdrawal symptoms from pain pills.
This song is a continuation of the topic of rampant drug abuse in my home state of West Virginia and particularly the area that I was raised in. Last album, we released the video “Soul Eraser” which focused on the meth problem. “The Agonies” is about prescription pill abuse. My state has the highest mortality rate from RX pill abuse in the country. It is literally crippling our economy. In the chorus, we have the line: “These WV hills can sedate you.” On our debut 11 years ago, our biggest song “Hatfield” had the line: “These WV hills can’t sedate me”” We go back to our first album to let people know that things have changed – for the worse.”
Source: metalunderground
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