The Acacia Strain

Doors at 6:00 pm | Show at 6:30 pm • $25 Advance | $30 DOS | 21+

The Acacia Strain appeared next to Deftones and Run The Jewels in the 25 Best Albums of 2020 list assembled by Revolver, who also counted the band’s decade-old Wormwood as one of 15 Essential Deathcore Albums alongside platters from Suicide Silence and Bring Me The Horizon. The long-running hard rock publication predicted, “Whatever comes next is bound to snap necks.”  

 The hell-raising metal institution literally doubles down on that prophecy in 2023, delivering not one but twodevastating and diverse full-length records on the same day. Step Into The Light and Failure Will Follow push forward the fierce creative momentum kicked off with the surprise release of It Comes In Waves (2019) and the untraditional rollout of the spectacular Slow Decay (2020).  

The Acacia Strain continues to defy convention with their eleventh and twelfth albums. Step Into The Light is ten songs of pulverizing power and gut-wrenching groove as only The Acacia Strain can summon. Its companion album, Failure Will Follow, leans into the sludge-driven, moodier side of the band across three epic tracks (collectively running more than 40 minutes) of furious doom.