The Acacia Strain – “Slow Decay” [Album Review]

There’s only one band you need in your life at a time like this and that is The Acacia Strain who, after a run of crushing singles, have dropped their new album, Slow Decay. The follow-up to 2019’s It Comes In Waves, the sludgy deathcore heavyweights are not only back but, it has to be said, back with their finest effort to date. Slow Decay groans into life with “Feed A Pigeon, Breed A Rat” and you quickly realise that this is going to be the perfect soundtrack to the frustration, anger and general insanity happening across the planet. Devastatingly heavy, Slow Decay showcases the deathcore mob at their most punishing. A filthy cocktail of dense, sludgy riffs, a thick as tar bass sound and crushing drumming, tracks like “Solace and Serenity” and “Chhinamasta” rain down a slew o...

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