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The Acacia Strain is an American metalcore band originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts. They are currently signed to Rise Records. The band has released ten full-length albums. Buy The Acacia Strain Merch Here!
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Forming in 2001, The Acacia Strain was started by high school friends Vincent Bennett, Christopher Daniele, and Ben Abert. Looking to bring their current band Septic Orgasm to the next level of technicality, they brought in their mutual friend, Karrie Whitfield, and high school student Daniel “DL” Laskiewicz to play bass and guitar, respectively. The band began playing local shows around Massachusetts and recorded their demo in 2001.
After DL received a shoulder injury while playing high school football, Bennett asked his friend and current Blood Has Been Shed guitarist, Daniel Daponde, to fill in on guitar while DL healed from his injury. The group felt Daponde brought a heavier and more technical aspect to the band, so when DL returned, they wanted Daponde to stay, thus forming the unusual three-guitar lineup.
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After countless local shows, including quite a few in Bennett’s mother’s basement, the band was approached by Toby Dutkiewicz, who ran Devil’s Head Records, to see if they would join his label. The band agreed and began recording for their debut album… And Life Is Very Long began in 2002 at Zing recording studio in Westfield, Massachusetts, with Adam Dutkiewicz and Jim Fogarty at the helm, with Jim doing most of the tracking.
The Acacia Strain’s music has been primarily described as deathcore and metalcore and has been noted to include heavy influences from sludge, doom metal, and death metal, along with some punk rock-style aesthetics and sensibilities.
AllMusic characterizes the band’s musical style as “utilizing a bone-crushing rhythm section, apocalyptic samples, and a unique triple-guitar assault to deliver their signature blend of hardcore punk, noise, death metal, and doom metal.” The site’s review of Wormwood elaborates on the band’s sound as “an inelegant and unstoppable juggernaut fueled by memories of the unchecked aggression unleashed on the world by the likes of Sepultura and Pantera.”
Vocalist Vincent Bennett and drummer Kevin Boutot have both denied that The Acacia Strain is of the “deathcore genre,” going so far as to express dislike for the label, though Bennett was later more ambivalent towards it, stating “sometimes I get it, sometimes I don’t.”
The Acacia Strain’s influences include Candiria, Integrity, Dismember, Deftones, Rush, Iron Maiden, Crowbar, Meshuggah, Hatebreed, Slayer, Arch Enemy, and Overcast.
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