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Behind The Mask
otionless In White released their fifth studio ewinding to the band’s previous ‘Graveyard
RShift’ tour – a time when we thought the band
Malbum, ‘Disguise’, in June of 2019. Their sec- were stronger than ever, Chris begins, telling Black Vel-
ond studio release on Roadrunner Records, and fifth vet, “There was, I’d say, a slow separation of different
aspects in the band and the crew and, as time went on,
in total, sees the Scranton, Pennsylvanian-based band it just felt like there was an explosion coming, so to
speak, but not something that we could’ve handled. But
open up to become more honest than ever before. no-one seemed to be reaching out to each other to com-
With lyrics penned by vocalist Chris Cerulli, AKA Chris municate the issue and it just got worse and worse and
I think everyone just tried to avoid it and hope that it
Motionless, it came as a result of a tough time, and would just go away. There were some things that hap-
pened within the band that thankfully transpired that
the album sees the frontman delve into how it feels to made things a lot better and, thankfully, we had a bunch
have to wear a mask, what he was going through at of time off after the ‘Graveyard Shift’ cycle was over, so
having that time off to cool off and kind of get a new per-
the time, both personally and professionally, and using spective on things, communicate with each other… we
his lyrics as a release - the final track itself being called had a member change… All these things, in fact, just
came into play to give us a restart feeling and ever since
‘Catharsis’. then it’s been better and better. This year’s been really,
MOTIONLESS IN WHITE
