{"id":42453,"date":"2016-03-31T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=42453"},"modified":"2016-12-12T19:54:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:54:54","slug":"news-byzantine-sign-album-contract-with-metal-blade-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-byzantine-sign-album-contract-with-metal-blade-records\/","title":{"rendered":"BYZANTINE Sign Album Contract With Metal Blade Records (March 31st, 2016) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>BYZANTINE Sign Album Contract With Metal Blade Records<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>March 31st, 2016<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nCharleston, West Virginia-based groove metal band Byzantine have signed an album contract with Metal Blade Records, revealing this development on March 31st, 2016. <\/p>\n<p>Byzantine\u2019s sixth full-length studio album <em>The Cicada Tree<\/em> is scheduled for <a href=\"\/site\/news-byzantine-release-sixth-studio-album-the-cicada-tree\/\">release<\/a> in May 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Frontman Chris &#8220;OJ&#8221; Ojeda issued the following statement: &#8220;For the last few albums, we have operated outside the fringes of the music community by necessity. I had almost lost hope that we would ever have the chance to showcase our music to the world on a bigger stage. With the help of Brian Slagel and Metal Blade Records, we feel like Byzantine has been given a second chance to make our first impression. We are absolutely thrilled at the opportunity to share our brand of heavy music with the world on the world&#8217;s best metal label!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Byzantine\u2019s line-up is as follows;<\/p>\n<p>Chris &#8220;OJ&#8221; Ojeda (vocals and guitar)<br \/>\nBrian &#8220;Hendo&#8221; Henderson (guitar)<br \/>\nSean Sydnor (bass)<br \/>\nMatt Bowles (drums)<\/p>\n<p>Byzantine independently issued fifth studio record <em>To Release Is To Resolve<\/em> in April 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BYZANTINE Sign Album Contract With Metal Blade Records March 31st, 2016 Charleston, West Virginia-based groove metal band Byzantine have signed an album contract with Metal Blade Records, revealing this development on March 31st, 2016. Byzantine\u2019s sixth full-length studio album The Cicada Tree is scheduled for release in May 2017. Frontman Chris &#8220;OJ&#8221; Ojeda issued the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2869],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-byzantine-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50780,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42453\/revisions\/50780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}