a new acacia strain offering and i am very sceptical to say the least. news came to me through a pretty remote channel. i scrolled down the new in stock list at per koro and came across it. that was cool in a way because it spared me the torture of waiting of a pre-order process. instead of that it was quite exciting not to know any song or the colour it would come on.
at first when it arrived i was pretty delighted to see the lovely colour way matching the cover art nicely. but then came the tricky part. dropping the needle on it. the last record "death is the only mortal" was kind of exhausting. but not the rewarding type. so you may understand my joy as i heard the first song "above". up-tempo, face melting riffs and a bone crushing breakdown. hell yeah, this feels like "wormwood" and "death is the only mortal" never happened and they continued right after "continent".
the second song "below" is not quite as strong but the apocalyptic feeling is definitely there and they finally know how to keep their songs interesting again. the line-up changes had been pretty healthy in my eyes. "above/below" is a great appetiser and i'm craving for the upcoming release. let it come. this was supposed to be a brown colour but it came out a little different. more orange if you ask me. 600 made. rise records. 2013.
