Byzantine

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The Hellion / Electric Eye 00:00 Tools
Cradle Song 00:00 Tools
New Ways to Bear Witness 00:00 Tools
Nadir 00:00 Tools
Absolute Horizon 00:00 Tools
Taking Up Serpents 03:12 Tools
Jeremiad 00:00 Tools
Justicia 00:00 Tools
Oblivion Beckons 00:00 Tools
The Gift Of Discernment 00:00 Tools
Expansion And Collapse 00:00 Tools
Hatfield 00:00 Tools
Catalyst 00:00 Tools
Ancestry of the Antichrist 00:00 Tools
Centurion 00:00 Tools
Pattern Recognition 00:00 Tools
Red Neck War 00:00 Tools
Five Faces of Madness 00:00 Tools
Renovatio 00:00 Tools
Receiving End Of Murder 00:00 Tools
Stick Figures 00:00 Tools
All Hail The End Times 00:00 Tools
Deep End Of Nothing 00:00 Tools
Which Light Shall Never Penetrate 00:00 Tools
A Residual Haunting 00:00 Tools
Salem, Ark. 00:00 Tools
Pity None 00:00 Tools
Soul Eraser 00:00 Tools
Temporary Temples 00:00 Tools
Stoning Judas 00:00 Tools
The Rat Eaters 00:00 Tools
My New Casket 00:00 Tools
Sin Remover 00:00 Tools
A Curious Lot 00:00 Tools
Vile Maxim 00:00 Tools
Kill Chain 00:00 Tools
Slipping On Noise 00:00 Tools
Brundlefly 00:00 Tools
Efficacy 00:00 Tools
The Devil's Arithmetic 00:00 Tools
The Filth Of Our Underlings 00:00 Tools
Forged In The Heart Of A Dying Star 00:00 Tools
Trapjaw 00:00 Tools
Signal Path 00:00 Tools
Caldera 00:00 Tools
The Agonies 00:00 Tools
Everything I Touch Bursts Into Flame 00:00 Tools
Scold's Bridle 00:00 Tools
Justinian Code 00:00 Tools
Posthumous 00:00 Tools
Pathogen 00:00 Tools
Map of the Creator 00:00 Tools
Dead as Autumn Leaves 00:00 Tools
God Forsaken 00:00 Tools
shop lift 00:00 Tools
You Sleep, We Wake 00:00 Tools
To Release 00:00 Tools
The Cicada Tree 00:00 Tools
The Subjugated 00:00 Tools
To Resolve 00:00 Tools
Incremental 00:00 Tools
Verses of Violence 00:00 Tools
Moving in Stereo 00:00 Tools
Servitude 00:00 Tools
The Hellion/Electric Eye 04:19 Tools
Dam That River - Alice in Chains Cover 00:00 Tools
Temporary of the Antichrist 00:00 Tools
Pisschrist - Fear Factory Cover 00:00 Tools
Φωτίζου, φωτίζου 00:00 Tools
Jerimiad 00:00 Tools
The Lords Prayer 00:00 Tools
Pinback 00:00 Tools
The Beginning 00:00 Tools
Track 01 00:00 Tools
Husk 00:00 Tools
Jeremiad and They Shall Take Up Serpents 00:00 Tools
Deleted Scenes from Jeremiad 00:00 Tools
Hatfield (Live at the Sound Factory) 00:00 Tools
Five Faces of Madnes (Live at the Sound Factory) 00:00 Tools
Justicia (Live at The Nanci Raygun) 00:00 Tools
Stoning Judas (Live at the Sound Factory) 00:00 Tools
The End 00:00 Tools
Christine 00:00 Tools
Slipping on Noise (Live at the Sound Factory) 00:00 Tools
Spiral 00:00 Tools
God's Shame 00:00 Tools
Ascetic Aesthetic 00:00 Tools
Dam That River (Alice in Chains Cover) 00:00 Tools
Pisschrist (Fear Factory Cover) 00:00 Tools
Absolute Horizon [http://alterportal.ru/] 00:00 Tools
Lobotomy 00:00 Tools
Traditional Turkish Music 00:00 Tools
Serotonin Transplant 00:00 Tools
Ancenstry of the Antichrist 00:00 Tools
Scold's Bridal 00:00 Tools
Jeremaid 00:00 Tools
Scolds Bridle 00:00 Tools
Unhook Me 00:00 Tools
Moving in Stereo (The Cars Cover) 00:00 Tools
Wings of my Soul 00:00 Tools
Shoplift 00:00 Tools
Jermiad 00:00 Tools
Servitude (Fishbone Cover) 00:00 Tools
Pisschrist 00:00 Tools
God's Shame (Inspirational Mix) 00:00 Tools
Dam That River 00:00 Tools
Byzantine 00:00 Tools
02. Soul Eraser 00:00 Tools
Meditation 00:00 Tools
The Fundamental Component - 01 - Hatfield 00:00 Tools
The Fundamental Component - 04 - My New Casket 00:00 Tools
The Fundamental Component - 07 - Kill Chain 00:00 Tools
Devil's Arithmetic 00:00 Tools
Filth of Our Underlings 00:00 Tools
Pathogen [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
Electric Eye 00:00 Tools
Lowbrain 00:00 Tools
The Hellion-Electric Eye 00:00 Tools
...And They Shall Take Up Serpents - 02 - Taking Up Serpents 00:00 Tools
Skin Remover 00:00 Tools
The Fundamental Component - 02 - Stick Figure 00:00 Tools
The Fundamental Component - 05 - Sin Remover 00:00 Tools
The Devil's Arthimetic 00:00 Tools
Cradle Song (Original Demo) 00:00 Tools
Remover 00:00 Tools
single 00:00 Tools
Shop Lift (EyeHateGod cover) 00:00 Tools
The Fundamental Component - 06 - Slipping On Noise 00:00 Tools
The Fundamental Component - 03 - Stoning Judas 00:00 Tools
The Fundamental Component - 09 - Brundlefly 00:00 Tools
Jeremiad (Edit) 00:00 Tools
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Byzantine is a Post-Thrash/Groove Metal band hailing from Charleston, West Virginia. They formed in 2000, were signed to Prosthetic Records and have released four full length albums: "The Fundamental Component" (2004), "And They Shall Take up Serpents" (2005), "Oblivion Beckons" (2008), and Byzantine (2013). As the third millennium got under way, heavy metal fans finally began emerging from their grunge fallout shelters and, having endured an additional period of oppression beneath the mostly horrific reign of nu metal, found some exciting new hard music alternatives before them, at last. Many were these fresh stylistic subsets rising to prominence (including metallic hardcore, neo-thrash, post-metal, and reinvigorated black and death metal scenes), but there were also a few bands too eclectic to categorize, and among the most inventive was West Virginia's aptly named Byzantine. Hailing from the small town of Chapmanville — population of 1,211 on the year of the census and the band's founding: 2000 — Byzantine started out as a trio comprised of vocalist/guitarist Chris Ojeda, bassist Chris Adams (both formerly involved with Morgantown-based thrashers New Family), and guitarist Tony Rohrbough, who were backed by a drum machine on their first few shows before securing the services of one Jeremy Freeman, who was replaced in short order by permanent drummer Matt Wolfe. Several formative demos were recorded between 2000 and 2002, and the group signed an agreement with a small local production company called DK Entertainment, which went as far as financing the recording of Byzantine's would-be first album, but when they proceeded to sit on the unreleased masters for too long, the bandmembers decided to take matters into their own hands. In 2003, they self-released the six-song Broadmoor EP (named after the studio that spawned it) and were almost immediately scouted by L.A.-based Prosthetic Records, which sent them back into the studio to re-record the EP's songs, tack on four more, and thereby deliver Byzantine's official full-length debut, The Fundamental Component, released in February 2004. With its prejudice-free mix of clean and rough vocals, prog metal technicality, and hardcore aggression, the album didn't fit into any convenient metallic subgenre, and therefore made Byzantine acceptable touring mates for bands as diverse as Caliban, All That Remains, and Lamb of God (who had helped them connect with Prosthetic in the first place), while earning the band a prominent position in what was then being dubbed "the New Wave of American Heavy Metal." Having already established an intriguing penchant for discussing historical and environmental issues relating to their Appalachian surroundings, Byzantine decided to get all biblical with the title of their sophomore album, ...And They Shall Take Up Serpents (inspired by a local preacher who liked to do just that!), which emerged in May of 2005 and was recorded as a trio following the departure of bassist Adams over the preceding winter months. His replacement, Michael Cromer, hit the road with the group immediately after the album's release, beginning with a headlining U.K. tour (clear evidence of Byzantine's growing popularity), then stateside dates with Eyehategod and Buried Inside, followed by the U.S.-roving International Extreme Music Festival (also featuring God Dethroned, Nightrage, Epoch of Unlight, and several others), before winding own the year with yet another trek dubbed Under the Underground. All of this grueling roadwork and the exposure it afforded for the band came at a bitter price, though, as guitarist Rohrbough decided he'd had enough, and had to be replaced by Eric Seevers for the last of these tours, as well as an appearance at the New England Metal Fest in April 2006 and subsequent dates with Still Remains, Agnostic Front, and, later, Kittie. Then, Byzantine finally took a well-deserved break at year's end, but by February of 2007, Ojeda, Wolfe, Cromer, and a reinstated Rohrbough were already ensconced in the studio once again, initiating the four-month sessions for what would be their third and most adventurous album yet. In April, Prosthetic released the group's first DVD, Salvation, and then began posting a steady stream of information, cover art, and songs from the forthcoming LP, which was now officially entitled Oblivion Beckons, and whose release was abruptly postponed from that fall to early 2008. This indeed came to pass, but a mere week after the album's late-January release, Byzantine issued a statement announcing they could no longer function as a band and were therefore going their separate ways. More details were not forthcoming and only added to fan frustration over this unexpected turn of events, but when Ojeda began working on an album of classic thrash covers later that year, the reality of Byzantine's demise finally began sinking in, leaving only their influential three-album legacy to serve as some measure of consolation. However, they reunited in August 2010, with a new guitarist, Brian "Hendo" Henderson. Later on in 2012 original guitarist Tony Rohrbough rejoined permanently. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.