The Acacia Strain

Failure Will Follow

This is the opposite of Step Into The Light, in that while that album blows up in spurts, this is one big massive and never-ending explosion. This is three epic and drawn out metal tracks. “Pillars of Salt” is a very droney song with powerful sounding drums, atmospheric ambience, and monstrous growls. “Bog Walker” is sluggish and spread-out with classic doom guitar work in it. In my opinion, “Bog Walker” lingers a little too long, as you could shave off quite ... read more

An enjoyable doom metal album!

This is the opposite of Step Into The Light, in that while that album blows up in spurts, this is one big massive and never-ending explosion. This is three epic and drawn out metal tracks. “Pillars of Salt” is a very droney song with powerful sounding drums, atmospheric ambience, and monstrous growls. “Bog Walker” is sluggish and spread-out with classic doom guitar work in it. In my opinion, “Bog Walker” lingers a little too long, as you could shave off quite ... read more

A very unorthodox release by The Acacia Strain. They are know to make crushing deathcore/metalcore records. Failure Will Follow has some deathcore elements as well, and breakdowns are great as usual. The range of influence runs much wider that usual this time including sludge and stoner, maybe even some dark wave though chugging riffs are abundant as well. The songs are in excess of 10 minutes and the pace is much slower than usual. The Acacia Strain prove that with some help of feature artists ... read more