acacia strain

In perhaps one of the most brilliantly-named tours we've ever heard of, the Acacia Strain will headline the upcoming To Catch a Predatour with the Red Chord, Terror, Gaza and the Contortionist. The Acacia Strain will be supporting their new album, 'Wormwood...

"Because I like drawing birds, I was given a dead one by a friend," artist Justin Kamerer said to Noisecreep about the circumstances surrounding his work for the Acacia Strain's new album, 'Wormwood.' "It had been in my freezer for about two weeks, and then I just had the idea to put it on this weird piece of dental equipment I picked up in Alabama last year and took a bunch of refe

Seeing that the Acacia Strain are too white for black metal, we're guessing the band didn't decide to title their new album, 'Wormwood,' after the Marduk record of the same name that came out last year. But on July 20, the Acacia Strain will, indeed, release 'Wormwood' to the masses, frontman Vincent Bennett revealed in a June 5 YouTube post...

The past six months have been rough for a lot of great metal musicians. At the end of 2009, Avenged Sevenfold drummer Jimmy 'The Rev' Sullivan died. On April 14, Type O Negative frontman Peter Steele passed away from heart failure. On May 16, Heaven & Hell frontman and metal legend Ronnie James Dio died of stomach cancer and on May 24, Slipknot bassist and co-founder Paul Gray was found dead i

It may have an unassuming, unflashy name, but the first annual Cool Tour is quickly ascending to hot ticket status this summer. The tour kicks off July 12 and is sponsored by Metal Blade, Atticus Black by Atticus Clothing and Musician's Institute College of Contemporary Music...

The Acacia Strain have finished recording their new album, due out July 20 through Prosthetic. But these western Massachusetts-based chuggernauts aren't going to simply reveal the album title via some boring, tired press release. That would be too easy and too trite...

If you've discovered metal over the past decade of so, it's possible that Minnesota thundergods Disembodied might have fallen through the cracks. The hardcore metal band, which formed in 1995 created a pair of brain-rattling records, 1999's 'The Diablerie' and 2000's 'Heretic' before fragmenting into the melodic death metal/metalcore band Martyr AD...

Talk about a lineup! Christian metalcore act As I Lay Dying, who will be releasing a new record called 'The Powerless Rise' next month, have revealed their plans for the inaugural Cool Tour, which will also feature Underoath, Between the Buried and Me and a host of other bands...

Whitechapel's 'A New Era of Corruption' is, without question, one of the most anticipated records of 2010. All the kids wanna get their hot little hands on the latest LP to emerge from producer du jour Jason Suecof's Audio Hammer Studios, because the grapevine's been dripping with advanced approbation...

"All five of us have vastly different influences that help make up the sound that we have come to," Amarna Reign drummer Josh told Noisecreep of his Indianapolis-based band, which is currently unsigned while courting some label offers. "To make things easy, when asked what our main influence is, we usually just throw out Swedish metal or the Gothenburg sound, because it gives a qui