June 17TH I 6PM DOORS | 7PM SHOW $29.50 ADVANCE | $39 DOS | 18+ The Acacia Strain With support: The Callous Daoboys, fROMJOY, AND maSK https://youaresafefromgodhere.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Theacaciastrain/ https://www.instagram.com/theacaciastrain https://www.youtube.com/TheAcaciaStrain https://www.tiktok.com/@theacaciastrain https://www.pandora.com/artist/the-acacia-strain/AR6hqJqv75qc63w https://open.spotify.com/artist/4tDkeVxH0CSkNiLVrsYmQs?si=14feb1768ee64bfe https://music.amazon.com/artists/B00GA71R4K?ref=dm_sh_45c9-f561-79d7-a755-b016c https://music.apple.com/us/artist/the-acacia-strain/253042890 No matter how different we may seem on the outside, the same primal needs unite all of us. Among the essentials, we require connection to one another. The world could be teetering on the brink of extinction (and it may very well be right now!), and people would still find ways to unify… Since the turn of the century, The Acacia Strain have rallied audiences around an ever-evolving and earthquaking hybrid of existential metal, cosmic hardcore, airy doom, and snow-covered sludge. The quintet—Vincent Bennett , Devin “Big Slime” Shidaker , Griffin Landa , Mike Mulholland , and Matt Guglielmo —beckon connection by asking big questions and extending a hand through the chaos and across the pit. Once again, they incite catharsis in its purest form on their thirteenth full-length offering, You Are Safe From God Here . “Whether you’re 15-years-old or 50-years-old, you need something to hold onto, a place to go, and somebody to understand you, even if it’s just a guy screaming at you through a speaker,” smiles Vincent. “Listening to music is a way to get everything off your chest. It’s extremely hard to be a human being, and I don’t want anybody to feel alone.” The collective have continued to remind listeners of this truth, while churning out some of the downright heaviest riffs, grooves, and screams on the planet. Along the way, they’ve delivered staple LPs such as Wormwood , Coma Witch , Gravebloom , It Comes In Waves , Slow Decay , and the double-salvo of full-length records Step Into The Light and Failure Will Follow—hailed by Revolver as “Two of 2023’s heaviest albums.” Beyond praise from Brooklyn Vegan, Decibel, and DORK, New Noise bestowed a perfect score of “5-out-of-5 stars” upon Failure Will Follow and christened it “a work of art that shows what metal bands can do and what more should start doing.” Moreover, they’ve collaborated with everyone from Courtney LaPlante of Spiritbox to Aaron Herd of Jesus Piece. Along the way, they’ve also collected nearly 100 million total streams, which is rare if not unheard of for an outfit this uncompromising. Simultaneously, the group have earned a reputation as a live force of nature, packing theaters on headline runs and even launching their own New England Sadness & Failure Festival in 2025 at the Worcester Palladium with a cohort of heavy-hitters a la On Broken Wings, Missing Link, ...
