For the last few months, The Acacia Strain have been releasing pairs of new songs into separate EPs, each titled with a different letter representing it.
Today the band has released their fifth and final EP titled Y. Along with the other four EPs, the word “DECAY” has been revealed.
The Acacia Strain have now confirmed all five EPs will be compiled into an album they are calling Slow Decay, and will be released on July 24th via Rise Records. The album will also feature two previously unreleased songs as well. Pre-orders are available for purchase here.
Streams to band’s latest singles “One Thousand Painful Stings” (featuring Courtney LaPlante of Spiritbox) and “EARTH WILL BECOME DEATH” are available below as well as a statement by frontman Vincent Bennet.
“The whole concept is reality breaking down around us. We’ve done our time on earth, broken through the boundaries of what reality actually is, and we’re now witnessing our collective descent into madness. Lyrically and sonically, everything reflects that.
You’re getting the vision piece by piece. The whole theme is a slow dive. By the same token, it organically becomes one record instead of just one big push out of the gate. As soon as you think you’re getting the hang of it, we throw out a wrench with the full-length.
There’s no evidence to suggest we’re aren’t actually in a living hell. The things happening around us could be out of a comic book or a movie. The idea is, ‘This can’t be real.’ Maybe something happened. Maybe we’re all dead and we don’t even know it. Maybe we’re just living in some augmented reality hellscape of actual planet earth.”
– Vincent Bennet (frontman)
TRACKLIST:
1. Feed A Pigeon Breed A Rat
2. Crippling Poison
3. Seeing God (Feat. Aaron Heard)
4. Solace and Serenity
5. The Lucid Dream (Feat. Jess Nyx)
6. I breathed in the smoke deeply it tasted like death and I smiled (Feat. Zach Hatfield)
7. Crossgates
8. Inverted Person
9. Chhinnamasta
10. One Thousand Painful Stings (Feat. Courtney LaPlante)
11. Birds of Paradise, Birds of Prey
12. EARTH WILL BECOME DEATH
