Acacia Strain - WormwoodMassachusetts' long running chuggernauts, The Acacia Strain, truly embody anger and it has never been more evident than it was on their 2010 full length album Wormwood. The band's sound is as ferocious as ever here, their fourth full length for Prosthetic Records and fifth overall. For Wormwood, the band returned to the scene of the creation of predecessor Continent, producer Chris "Zeuss" Harris' Planet Z Studio in Hadley, MA. This time around we

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these pieces burst the limits of both space and time

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'70s pop and psychedelic experimentation that established him as a musician in his own right

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The acknowledged Clara Schumann expert Ragna Schirmer has devoted a special act of homage to her artistic predecessor

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refreezes and realigns the composer's demands on the traditional string quartet

where living toys roam and a dangerous competition is about to begin

"Unleashed is about inner passion and rage coming up to the surface