While this year continues to be another great year for new heavy music, the Massachusetts scene has once again stood tall with The Acacia Strain dropping their latest, Gravebloom  (Rise). The Chicopee, MA group continues to produce stellar albums and still aiming to beat out their previous successes. TAC keeps true to the sound that they are best known for, while also experimenting just a bit more than previously. There may not be a twenty-minute long epic that takes up a second disk, but the eleven tracks that span nearly fifty minutes is just right.Continue reading →