What It Means to Be Defeated an acoustic video for the same-named song, "What It Means to Be Defeated". The band streamed their entire album three days prior to its release on October 26, 2013, via "Alternative Press" page. On October 26, 2014, it was announced that the album would be re-issued on November 24, 2014. It was re-mastered by Tom Denney and featured four acoustic bonus tracks. In promotion of the album, Dayseeker had a three-week concert tour through the United States with metalcore band Kingdom Of Giants in November and December 2013. In April and May the band toured the Artery Across The Nations
Shas Pollak colloquial reference to the Talmud. "Pollak" means "Pole" in Yiddish, referring to a Polish Jew, so the term literally means "The Talmud-Pole" or the "Polish Talmudist." G.M. Stratton quotes a letter from a Reverend Dr. David Phillipson of Cincinnati who described the so-called "pin test": ...A pin would be placed on a word, let us say, the fourth word in line eight; the memory sharp would then be asked what word is in the same spot on page thirty-eight or fifty or any other page; the pin would be pressed through the volume until it reached page thirty eight or