THE ACACIA STRAIN adds second guitar player, gets ready for tour
Western Massachusetts' purveyors of all things heavy, THE ACACIA STRAIN,
have confirmed the addition of Jonathan Dennison (Unholy, Another Victim,
Path of Resistance, Santa Sangre). The band will depart for a headlining
tour later this fall with support coming from Despised Icon, Full Blown
Chaos and The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza.

"I couldn't be happier with our decision," comments THE ACACIA STRAIN
frontman Vincent Bennett. "In my eyes, J.D. is the ideal choice. Everyone is
really excited to have him on board and we can't wait to see what he has to
offer this band. We're wicked excited for this tour. I've wanted to tour
with all of these bands forever, and we finally are. We are going to be
playing some songs that we haven't played in forever or haven't been able to
play due to the lack of a second guitar and will be showcasing a new song or
two. Sorry to our friends in the Great White North though, we are seriously
trying to stay away from those dangerous snow-covered roadways. I promise we
will make it up to you when the warmer weather hits. See everyone in
November and December!"

THE ACACIA STRAIN continues to support the band's latest effort, 'The Fall
of Ideals,' which saw a summer 2006 release through Prosthetic Records. The
album spawned the video "Angry Mob Justice" which can be seen online here
(http://youtube.com/watch?v=5fNXspL1hGs).

THE ACACIA STRAIN on tour
11/02 Amherst, MA - The Mercy House (with The Miles Between, The Horror
Story, Funeral In Fame, Lost And No One Knows, Conqueror)

(with Despised Icon, Full Blown Chaos, Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza)
11/24 Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium (with Recon)
11/25 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick (with Recon)
11/26 Cleveland, OH - Peabody's Down Under (with Recon)
11/27 Pompton Lakes, NJ - Mainstage (with Recon)
11/28 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church (with Recon)
11/29 Richmond, VA - Alley Katz
11/30 Thomasville, NC - The Soundvent (with Implosive Disgorgence)
12/01 Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade (with Implosive Disgorgence)
12/02 Jacksonville, FL - Fuel Coffee House (with Implosive Disgorgence)
12/03 Tampa, FL - The Orpheum (with Implosive Disgorgence)
12/04 Orlando, FL - Backbooth (with Implosive Disgorgence)
12/05 Pensacola, FL - American Legion Post 33 (with Implosive Disgorgance)
12/06 Metairie, LA - The High Ground (with Implosive Disgorgence)
12/07 Houston, TX - The Java Jazz
12/08 Lewisville, TX - Fat Daddy's Sound Shack
12/09 San Antonio, TX - White Rabbit
12/11 Tempe, AZ - The Sets
12/12 Hollywood, CA - Knitting Factory
12/13 Corona, CA - Showcase Theatre
12/14 San Diego, CA - Soma
12/15 San Jose, CA - MACLA
12/17 Wichita, KS - Eagles Lodge (with Ligeia)
12/18 St. Louis, MO - Creepy Crawl (with Ligeia)
12/19 Covington, KY - The Mad Hatter (with Ligeia)
12/20 Rochester, NY - The Penny Arcade (with Ligeia)
12/21 Kingston, PA - Backstage Enterprises (with Ligeia)
12/22 Worcester, MA - The Palladium Upstairs (with Ligeia)

"THE ACACIA STRAIN continues to support the band's latest effort, 'The Fall
of Ideals,' which saw a summer 2006 release through Prosthetic Records"

uuhhhh....wow, prothetic's really on top of things

cause twooo out of threee...aaaain't baad

hey. not to burst your bubble, but their last release was The Dead Walk, The Fall of Ideals is the horrible release from All That Remains.

just a reminder

moe @ work said:

Hahahaha oops.

man this band needs to stop. i heard on their next generic chugfest album... they are going to tune to brown note and play with dildos in their pee holes.

chug chug ee ee chug chug ee ee chug. chu chu chu (bassdrop) chug chug chug chug chug chug chug chug chug ee twostep.

Very creative.

what the hell is BAPE?

didnt they have 3 guitarists at one point?

bape is a japanese hip hop clothing company, short for bathing ape

no care ever

tylerl said:

I need to buy one of those hoodies. That B can be easily turned into an R.

you are a terrible man

haha that's what i thought too the first time i saw one

immortal13 said:

i guess if you want to break it down like that, you could do that with any type of music. dont be a dumbass.

shadow33 said:

Yeah, I guess so. How about we break down their sound like this:

Unearth ripoff
Unearth ripoff
Shadows Fall ripoff
Earth Crisis ripoff
Any given metalcore band on MTV2 ripoff
Unearth Ripoff
Chug Chug, end of song

pause, repeat, sign to some shit record label, whine about how you hate hardcore kids and then pander to them, and you've got yourself an Acacia Strain full lenght.

I'd say you could just replace "Unearth" with "Blood Has Been Shed" each time and you've got it pegged.

Im not really a fan of the acacia strain. But dude they definatley dont rip off unearth, earth crisis, or fucking shadows fall. Plus any metalcore band on mtv2 came out after the acacia strain, They've been around for awhile. Why dont you get your shit straight first. Bhbs rip off is a bit more like it. Especially the old bhbs.

dude some of their riffs are shadows fall just tuned to negitive A#
just slower.

i thought they tuned to Z b?

Lindsay Lohan is their new drummer, it's part of her rehab

brandon... said:

Thank god you're here to save the internet

brandon... said:

Here's me getting my shit straight. Take notes.

I'm aware of exactly how long the Acacia Strain has been around. I remember seeing them when they were first starting out. I remember seeing them at the Taunton American Legion and people coming up to me saying "How bad does this band want to be Unearth?" I remember watching them play at the Salem Elks, and turning to a friend of mine as we both asked "Isn't that an Unearth riff?" more than once. I remember sitting through their sets time, and time again picking out riff after riff that other bands wrote way before them. Hey, I don't blame you for getting all uppity about me pointing this out. I mean for you to have realized this you would have had to have been around for (Oh NOes!1!!!!1!) more than 2 years.

As far as MTV 2 metalcore bands that came out after the Acacia Strain... you mean like Killswitch Engage, Unearth, A Life Once Lost, Dillenger Escape Plan? I'd like to know what universe you're living in where the Acacia Strain pre-dates these bands.

And every Western Mass metal/hardcore mix band has probably ripped off a Shadows Fall riff at some point. Shadows Fall/Perpetual Doom all that stuff was, in a lot of ways, the start of that western mass sound (as is my understanding at least). I guess if you haven't heard anything from Shadows Fall that wasn't on an Ozzfest sampler you might not know that.

I'm gonna go schedule "Get Shit Straight" into my Outlook calendar now. Thanks.

Listen to compare them to shadows fall, unearth or any of those bands is to give them alot more credit first off.

All the bands listed are pretty metal.(besides earth crisis)and
have more technical style riffs and drumming. Where the acacia strain has poor guitar skills and ok drumming.

I mean shit im on your side their not great, but ive been seeing them for years and i just dont see any of those listed about being ripped off. Those bands are all really manufactured metalcore, they have that melodic kse shit in there.
Acacia strain is mostly a bunch of breakdowns or a bulid up to a breakdown. Their not really that creative.

to sum up what Mike was saying, if you saw them a few years ago, they had a completely different sound.
and three guitarist.
and a funny looking girl bass player.

i dig that first full length a lot

haha alright, I might have gotten a little carried away. I haven't heard anything they've done in years.

actually yeah, before they decided to be a less complicated Blood Has Been Shed that does describe the acacia strain of that time well.


Sometimes I forget that they jumped the various metalcore trends album to album.

xmikex said:

Yea man i didnt mean to come off as such an ass. But i just dont see it. Either way most bands in any place sound alike. boston western mass, NYC, they all have there sounds.

HEAR YE HEAR YE

INTERNETZ BEEF SQUASHED!