The Acacia Strain is a metal band from Chicopee, Massachusetts, US that for… Read Full Bio ↴The Acacia Strain is a metal band from Chicopee, Massachusetts, US that formed in 2001. The band have since undergone numerous changes in their lineup. To date, they have released seven studio albums, two split albums, two EPs, and have appeared on the Soundtrack for Homefront. The Acacia Strain have said they dislike genre labels, and instead describe themselves as "Heavy." "You might hear other music that sounds like it, but those bands can't touch what we have. We have heart. We mean it." Lyrically, they base their music on "hatred, nihilism, humanity's dependence on technology, and abhorrence for existence."
The current lineup consists of:
Vincent Bennett - lead vocals
Jack Strong - bass, backing vocals
Kevin Boutot - drums, percussion
Devin Shidaker - lead guitar
Richard Gomez - rhythm guitar
The current lineup consists of:
Vincent Bennett - lead vocals
Jack Strong - bass, backing vocals
Kevin Boutot - drums, percussion
Devin Shidaker - lead guitar
Richard Gomez - rhythm guitar
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It Comes in Waves
The Acacia Strain Lyrics
Giving Whatever walks there walks alone She takes as much as she…
Names The cradle hangs heavy above the circling wolves And when it…
Only We all fall Into the gaping maw Into the shattering abyss We…
Our I never thought I would see you again. (Where have you…
Sin Collapsing backwards We should have never answered No reconn…
Them Spirit Tomb Sacrificing Fear We will throw orchids, not rose…
Was They always come crawling back And whatever walks there walk…
Chris Wu
on Giving
Whatever walks there walks alone
Whatever walks there walks alone
She takes as much as she gives
She can see us
We are immortal
Whatever walks there walks alone
These gods do not believe in us
Whatever walks there walks alone
No end in sight
No sight in the end
Whatever walks there walks alone
Self-sacrifice for the living and the dead
Whatever walks there walks alone
We are immortal
Chris Wu
on Was
[Intro]
They always come crawling back
Whatever walks there walks alone
[Interlude]
How they thought that there were other dimensions
You know, other, other worlds
All around us, and how they wanted to try and make, um
A window
You know, so they could look through and see what's on the other side
Well, maybe your window turned out to be a door, didn't it?
Not mine, those scientists'!
Oh, the scientists!
Yes, the scientists!
They must have ripped a hole open by accident, this other world came spilling through to ours
That's what Donaldson was saying to me right before he killed himself, I didn't understand the half of it
It ain't my fault!
[Chorus]
Only the dead know
Only the dead know
[Verse 1]
Tears in the fabric
Lurking in the shadows
In the doorways of unreality
He says his name is Death
The truth is, he is something worse
[Interlude]
Don't you know by now?
Don't you know the truth?
We are being punished
For what?
For going against the will of God!
For going against his forbidden rules of old!
Walking on the moon!
Yes! Yes!
Or, or splitting his atoms!
Amen!
Or, or, or stem cells and abortions!
And destroying the secrets of life
That only God above has any right to!
Amen! Amen!
[Chorus]
Only the dead know
Only the dead know
[Verse 2]
Experience the true reality
Beyond the curtain
Beyond all sight and sound
Consciousness collapsing all around us
This is the veil being lifted
They waited
[Bridge]
It comes
It comes in
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes
It comes in
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes
It comes in
It comes
It comes in waves
[Outro]
Wishing away the sand
Washing away all you love
The days of darkness
The absence of light
Washing away all you love
Breath of God
Gaze of the old
It comes in waves
Chris Wu
on Sin
[Verse 1]
Collapsing backwards
We should have never answered
No reconnect
God of death
The water made wood
The soil turns to snakes
And then the sky collapsed
And then my mind collapsed
This is not a spiritual war
Our only sin was giving them names
[Verse 2]
Knowledge passed
I was never asked
Stampede upon the mind
The pearls become the swine
This is not a spiritual war
Our only sin was giving them names
The tower has fallen
The staircase leads to nowhere
This is an attack on the mind
[Bridge]
I want you to feel
What I feel
I want you to see
What I've seen
I want you to feel
What I feel
I want you to see
What I've seen
[Outro]
"Without body
They are illusions only
Shadows, without substance
They will not pass through your body, for they do not exist"
"They do not exist"
"Unreal, appearances only
They are shadows, illusions
Nothing but ghosts of reality
They are lies, falsehoods, specters, without body
They are to be ignored"
Chris Wu
on Only
[Verse]
We all fall into the gaping maw, into the shattering abyss
We all fall into the endless void
No such thing as dying
Collapsed lung
Collapsed reality
Relapsing through eternity
We all fall
Time has no shape, it's an entity
[Bridge]
(It comes in waves
It comes in waves
It comes in waves
It comes in waves
It comes in waves
It comes in waves)
[Breakdown]
Frozen and floating
Vanishing without a trace
Frozen and floating
Pushing farther away
Frozen and floating
No signs of life
Frozen and floating
Left somewhere God would never find
Chris Wu
on Them
[Intro]
Spirit tomb
Sacrificing fear
[Verse 1]
We will throw orchids, not roses
Burning on the funeral pyre of the world
Sweet, glowing rot dancing in our nostrils
Scent is memory, remind us to stop breathing
[Chorus]
Gravity is life pulling us to the grave
Heaven is a void of light
You are tied down by your emotions
Spiral through the creeping void
[Verse 2]
The tomb is open
Anyone that comes near
Will retreat in fear of what is inside
Devoured by failure
We have determined that you are not worthy
[Chorus]
Gravity is life pulling us to the grave
Heaven is a void of light
You are tied down by your emotions
Spiral through the creeping void
Chris Wu
on Names
[Verse 1]
The cradle hangs heavy above the circling wolves
And when it falls they will kill us all
The ghosts that haunt this earth are different than you think
No ethereal plane, just incomprehensible realities
(We have disappeared but we are inevitable
And the cell begins to divide)
[Verse 2]
The decision was your own
You chose wrong every time
You will feel no pain
Head back into a dreamless sleep
Catatonic unreality
Anomalies of the mind
There is no wrong, there is no right
They have returned
The sun sets on us all
Daylight
Twilight
Full dark
[Bridge 1]
I am in the doorway
Tomorrow brings new plague
I can see the end of it all
Tomorrow brings a new plague
[Verse 3]
Creatures from beyond reality
Offering ecstasy
Meet the new normal
Escape the bonds of consciousness
[Bridge 2]
Slip through
Slide in
Slip through
Slide in
Slip through
Slide in
Slip through
Slide in
I can't believe what I've seen
No one should
What have I done?
Abandoned all I held in my heart
Violent beings without form
Everyone will feel the same pain
Sorry will never be enough
[Interlude]
Who would've crossed oceans
Now have seen outstanding waters
Wondering what we could've done differently
Galaxies burnt out and frozen forever
Extermination
Life never known
Interdimensional agony
You will have never known it was even there
All places, all things have souls
All souls can be devoured
[Outro]
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes
Chris
on Feed A Pigeon Breed A Rat
It feels like hell
Breeding rats
Breeding rats
Breeding rats
Breeding rats
The whole planet is crawling
We have cut off our food supply
Teeming with vermin and blight
A mindless hive
While you all self-medicate
You live to contaminate
Our only option is to terminate
Before you continue to pollinate
They trample the weak (Trample the weak)
The lifeline is bleak
Obsolete (Obsolete)
Diseased
Deceased
Breeding rats
Breeding rats
Breeding rats
Breeding rats
It feels like hell
It feels like hell
It feels like hell
It feels like hell
It feels like hell
It feels like hell
Chris
on NONE OF US ASKED TO BE HERE
Return to dust
Return to dust
Return to dust
Return to dust
Return to dust
Return to dust
Return to dust
Return to dust
Face down in the mud
Footprints leaving trails of blood
Eyes set in their final stare
The scent of death clings to the air
The solid stream of flesh and bone
Everyone here died alone
Dirt and gravel drag us down
Just another body in the ground
The world we know is fucking ending
It's not surrender, it's acceptance
Welcome to die
I don't recognize the sights
The sun no longer shines
I'll see you on the other side
Just let me die
There is no love in the human race
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no love in the human race
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no life in a coward's grave
Chris
on UNTENDED GRAVES
The cemetery grass grows thick with the stench of the dead
Blood and bone fertilize the flower bed
Caskets collapse with the weight of the grime
Nothing but growth to remember us by
Markers wither with time
No trace left behind
I don't wanna die
I don't want to die
The ground and animals burn
The world continues to turn
Heat begins to vaporize
Anything left alive
As time goes on
And we do not
The hands fall off
The fucking clock
Collectively we turn our head
The orphaned planet left for dead
We refuse to believe
We are fucking weak
My love will be felt
Praying for heaven but begging for hell
This sadness will last forever
This sadness will last forever
Piles of corpses are rotting and spoiled
Rivers of blood poison the soil
Chris
on IS THIS REALLY HAPPENING?
The bugs will crawl
Poisoned only by the salt
Vermin swim through the blood and the shit
Addicted to the smell of it
The blade cuts the skin and shines
The wounded scream as they climb
The mind lives on but the body dies
The end of everything we despise
Flowers poisoned by the smell
The entire globe a living hell
No cleansing of this awful curse
The rain only makes it worse (Makes it worse)
Imagine the overgrowth
As your body begins to decompose
The skin has been flayed
All the bodies are riddled with decay
Your life will end with teeth
Just another piece of rotten meat
Your life will end with teeth
Just another piece of rotten meat
They aren't dead and they hunt
They are after us all, they take what they want
More food for the worms
I crack a smile as the world burns