It still ain’t broke. It still doesn’t need fixing. The Acacia Strain’s unstoppable groove machine might sound stuck on repeat for some, but if the band have ever scratched your itch for apocalyptic metal, ‘Death Is The Only Mortal’ should continue to satisfy. This is another soundtrack to the end of days. Any fear that the Massachusetts outfit might have […]
Read moreSingle serving metal, this. Expect one potent, effective, but ultimately small, punch and you won’t be disappointed. Originally a side project for members of It Prevails, this Oregon four-piece have gone full-time and full-bore for album number three. There is nothing new in the squealing feedback, chunky riffs, pounding rhythms or feral roars of these 12 tracks, and they take […]
Read moreDue October 8th via Rise Records, album number six from The Acacia Strain will look a little something like this. 1. Doomblade 2. Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow 3. Go To Sleep 4. Brain Death 5. The Mouth of the River 6. Dust and the Helix 7. Victims of the Cave 8. Time and Death and God 9. The Chambered […]
Read moreWord is out. Lostprophets and Bring Me The Horizon will headline the first Warped Tour stop on the UK for over a decade. The festival organisers didn’t stop there though. Also announced, playing across four stages at the November 10th event at London’s Alexandra Palace, are New Found Glory, Less Than Jake, Architects, The Acacia Strain, Awolnation, Bowling For Soup, […]
Read moreFrom a distance this looked amazing. A night of bands the calibre of which Reading is usually lucky to see in a whole year outside of a festival field. Up close and as it happens though, inside the cold black box of the still new Sub89, it’s somehow less exciting. It doesn’t help that confusion over entry age has left […]
Read moreIf it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. These are words The Acacia Strain live by. Sure, they might have improved their chops, paid for better production, and somehow got more pissed off over the years but this is essentially the same black-hearted, bloody-knuckled misanthropic metalcore the Massachusetts mob were writing a decade ago. That’s not a slight though. Where most […]
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