The Acacia Strain
Springfield, Massachusetts' The Acacia Strain have been a defining force in American deathcore since 2004, building a reputation on impossibly dense breakdowns, guttural low-tuned brutality, and a nihilistic worldview that feels more like a threat than a lyrical stance. Their sound sits at the intersection of death metal's technical menace and hardcore's confrontational physicality, with an almost suffocating heaviness that has made them a touchstone for a generation of heavy music fans.
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The Acacia Strain Discography
10 tracks
- 1 Cable Ready Techno Slut 5:33
- 2 ...and Life Is Very Long 1:03
- 3 Roadhead Road 5:16
- 4 The Widowmaker 4:36
- 5 All She Wrote 5:26
- 6 Why Is a Raven Like a Writing Desk 3:45
- 7 Killing On Empty 4:13
- 8 Noah Will Be Your Grave 5:48
- 9 Doppleganger 4:36
- 10 Sloth Loves Chunk 6:49
9 tracks
- 1 Carbomb 1:17
- 2 Brown Noise 3:11
- 3 3750 2:30
- 4 Smoke Ya Later 4:10
- 5 Extreme Wrath of the Jhiaxus 1:32
- 6 Drawn and Quartered 2:17
- 7 Passing the Pencil Test 2:58
- 8 Halcyon 2:51
- 9 Sun Poison and Skin Cancer 8:29
11 tracks
- 1 Sarin: The End 0:28
- 2 Burnface 2:33
- 3 4x4 2:25
- 4 As If Set Afire 3:14
- 5 Angry Mob Justice 2:50
- 6 Whoa! Shut It Down 2:58
- 7 See You Next Tuesday 3:15
- 8 Demolishor 3:11
- 9 Pity 3:45
- 10 Predator: Never Prey 3:31
- 11 The Dead Walk 3:47
13 tracks
- 1 Skynet 4:22
- 2 The Combine 2:02
- 3 The Behemoth 6:37
- 4 Seaward 4:15
- 5 Dr. Doom 2:26
- 6 Forget-Me-Now 2:43
- 7 Cthulhu 3:27
- 8 Baby Buster 4:18
- 9 Balboa Towers 4:36
- 10 Jfc 2:56
- 11 Kraken 2:41
- 12 Global Warming 2:54
- 13 Stay Puft 3:15
12 tracks
- 1 Beast 4:03
- 2 The Hills Have Eyes 4:20
- 3 Btm Fdr 3:51
- 4 Ramirez 2:25
- 5 Terminated 3:14
- 6 Nightman 2:51
- 7 The Impaler 4:35
- 8 Jonestown 3:18
- 9 Bay of Pigs 5:17
- 10 The Carpathian 3:17
- 11 Unabomber 4:47
- 12 Tactical Nuke 5:34
20 tracks
- 1 Whoa! Shut It Down - Live at the Palladium 3:37
- 2 See You Next Tuesday - Live at the Palladium 3:09
- 3 3750 - Live at the Palladium 2:54
- 4 4x4 - Live at the Palladium 2:34
- 5 Skynet - Live at the Palladium 3:55
- 6 Brown Noise - Live at the Palladium 3:34
- 7 As If Set Afire - Live at the Palladium 3:18
- 8 Dr. Doom - Live at the Palladium 2:30
- 9 Baby Buster - Live at the Palladium 3:50
- 10 Cthulhu - Live at the Palladium 3:28
- 11 Burnface - Live at the Palladium 1:32
- 12 Combine - Live at the Palladium 3:02
- 13 Angry Mob Justice - Live at the Palladium 2:55
- 14 Demolishor - Live at the Palladium 3:13
- 15 Balboa Towers - Live at the Palladium 4:40
- 16 Passing the Pencil Test - Live at the Palladium 3:15
- 17 Forget-Me-Now - Live at the Palladium 3:20
- 18 Sun Poison and Skin Cancer - Live at the Palladium 5:09
- 19 Jfc - Live at the Palladium 3:15
- 20 Carbomb - Live at the Palladium 2:00
1 track
- 1 Jonestown (Alternate Version) 3:18
10 tracks
- 1 Doomblade 4:17
- 2 Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow 4:30
- 3 Go to Sleep 4:12
- 4 Brain Death 4:16
- 5 The Mouth of the River 4:27
- 6 Dust and the Helix 2:10
- 7 Victims of the Cave 4:08
- 8 Time and Death and God 5:47
- 9 The Chambered Nautilus 4:29
- 10 House of Abandon 6:58
2 tracks
- 1 Above 4:26
- 2 Below 3:30
6 tracks
- 1 Money For Nothing 3:10
- 2 Brown Noise (2006) 3:13
- 3 Global Warming 2:54
- 4 Stay Puft 3:15
- 5 The Hills Have Eyes (2009) 3:56
- 6 Terminated (2009) 3:16
11 tracks
- 1 Human Disaster 3:46
- 2 Cauterizer 3:19
- 3 Send Help 3:26
- 4 Holy Walls of the Vatican 3:23
- 5 Vvorld Demise 3:02
- 6 Nailgun 4:26
- 7 Graveyard Shift 3:48
- 8 Bridgepainter 3:47
- 9 Whale Shark 3:19
- 10 Delusionalisphere 4:34
- 11 Observer 27:32
6 tracks
- 1 They Will Know Another 5:00
- 2 Sensory Deprivation 4:53
- 3 Flatlining 4:57
- 4 Du Hast 3:51
- 5 Black Hole Sun 5:30
- 6 The Perfect Drug 4:25
11 tracks
- 1 Worthless 4:22
- 2 Plague Doctor 3:18
- 3 Bitter Pill 3:12
- 4 Big Sleep 3:19
- 5 Gravebloom 3:32
- 6 Abyssal Depths 3:51
- 7 Model Citizen 3:05
- 8 Calloused Mouth 4:10
- 9 Dark Harvest 4:02
- 10 Walled City 5:46
- 11 Cold Gloom 9:14
1 track
- 1 Big Sleep 3:19
1 track
- 1 Bitter Pill 3:12
7 tracks
- 1 Our 3:44
- 2 Only 2:43
- 3 Sin 3:59
- 4 Was 5:45
- 5 Giving 2:54
- 6 Them 2:19
- 7 Names 8:47
12 tracks
- 1 Feed A Pigeon Breed A Rat 3:39
- 2 Crippling Poison 2:34
- 3 Seeing God (feat. Aaron Heard) 2:48
- 4 Solace and Serenity 4:37
- 5 The Lucid Dream (feat. Jess Nyx) 4:05
- 6 I breathed in the smoke deeply it tasted like death and I smiled (feat. Zach Hatfield) 4:44
- 7 Crossgates 1:08
- 8 Inverted Person 3:23
- 9 Chhinnamasta 3:50
- 10 One Thousand Painful Stings (feat. Courtney LaPlante) 4:29
- 11 Birds of Paradise, Birds of Prey 3:49
- 12 EARTH WILL BECOME DEATH 3:57
2 tracks
- 1 One Thousand Painful Stings (feat. Courtney LaPlante) 4:29
- 2 EARTH WILL BECOME DEATH 5:05
2 tracks
- 1 Inverted Person 3:23
- 2 Chhinnamasta 3:50
2 tracks
- 1 Crossgates 1:08
- 2 I breathed in the smoke deeply it tasted like death and I smiled (feat. Zach Hatfield) 4:44
2 tracks
- 1 Solace and Serenity 4:37
- 2 The Lucid Dream (feat. Jess Nyx) 4:05
2 tracks
- 1 Feed A Pigeon Breed A Rat 3:39
- 2 Seeing God (feat. Aaron Heard) 2:48
1 track
- 1 UNTENDED GRAVES 2:17
10 tracks
- 1 FLOURISHING 1:19
- 2 CALF'S BLOOD 1:39
- 3 CHAIN (feat. Jacob Lilly) 1:11
- 4 FRESH BONES 2:28
- 5 TEETH OF THE CURSED DOG 2:40
- 6 OPEN WOUND 1:54
- 7 SINKHOLE (feat. Josef Alfonso) 3:46
- 8 IS THIS REALLY HAPPENING? 2:57
- 9 UNTENDED GRAVES 2:17
- 10 NONE OF US ASKED TO BE HERE 3:16
3 tracks
- 1 pillar of salt (feat. dylan walker & iRis.EXE) 11:31
- 2 bog walker 17:00
- 3 basin of vows (feat. ethan mccarthy) 10:09
12 tracks
- 1 eucharist i: BURNT OFFERING 2:04
- 2 A CALL BEYOND 2:13
- 3 SWAMP MENTALITY 1:50
- 4 THE MACHINE THAT BLEEDS - feat. God's Hate 1:55
- 5 MOURNING STAR 2:01
- 6 I DON’T THINK YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE IT 2:04
- 7 ACOLYTE OF THE ONE 2:45
- 8 AEONIAN WRATH 1:13
- 9 HOLY MOONLIGHT 2:14
- 10 SACRED RELIC 2:49
- 11 WORLD GONE COLD 2:50
- 12 eucharist ii: BLOOD LOSS - feat. Blackwater Holylight 13:47
2 tracks
- 1 HOLY MOONLIGHT 2:14
- 2 A CALL BEYOND 2:13
1 track
- 1 A CALL BEYOND 2:13
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