Acacia Strain set for busy tour in Sept/OctThe Acacia Strain have set up a grueling tour schedule over the next month. They've also got a new video up of "pre-tour thoughts."9/17 Cervantes - Denver, CO9/18 In the Venue - Salt Lake City, UT9/19 The Venue - Boise, ID9/20 Hawthorne Theater - Portland, OR9/21 El Corazon - Seattle, WA9/23 Club Retro - Orangevale, CA9/25 The Ozone - Rio Rancho, NM9/2...
As much as I love metal feuds, they usually don’t actually go anywhere. Kerry King and Dave Mustaine can trade barbs in the press all they like, but we all know they’ll never actually get into any kind of altercation; in fact, Slayer and Megadeth just announced another string of Canadian dates together. Metal doesn’t [...]
If I was a betting man, I'd wager that at some point in their lives, the members of The Acacia Strain have been stuck with that most awful of labels - "wiggers" (I betcha thought I was gonna say "deathcore," didn't cha?). So there's probably a deep, sociological statement being made with their new, David [...]
--- - |- The Acacia Strain seem to be growing in popularity by the millisecond, and our brahs over at Metal Injection recently captured some killer footage of the band performing "Whoa, Shut it Down" at InFest 2008 (a.k.a. Summer Slaughter with even more bands) in NJ. You can view said footage below, and then click here to [...] ~~- The Acacia Strain
As much as I love metal feuds, they usually don’t actually go anywhere. Kerry King and Dave Mustaine can trade barbs in the press all they like, but we all know they’ll never actually get into any kind of altercation; in fact, Slayer and Megadeth just announced another string of Canadian dates together. Metal doesn’t [...]
Acacia Strain set for busy tour in Sept/OctThe Acacia Strain have set up a grueling tour schedule over the next month. They've also got a new video up of "pre-tour thoughts."9/17 Cervantes - Denver, CO9/18 In the Venue - Salt Lake City, UT9/19 The Venue - Boise, ID9/20 Hawthorne Theater - Portland, OR9/21 El Corazon - Seattle, WA9/23 Club Retro - Orangevale, CA9/25 The Ozone - Rio Rancho, NM9/2...
I reviewed The Acacia Strain's latest album, Continent, a couple months back and I remember being suitably impressed by its seamless integration of death metal intensity and hardcore attitude (both flavors of breakdowns, too). It might still be the only record I've heard that really makes sense to be called "deathcore" in a descriptive, non-pejorative [...]