Continent 9/20/1994 Split fairly neatly between his

Split fairly neatly between his contemporaries and those who followed in his footsteps

Mingus whoops

While Polydor's 2005 Gold set is a more thorough and elegantly compiled set (and at two discs it's also a lot longer)

A3        Blue Christmas

quality is spotty in places

Continent 9/20/1994 Split fairly neatly between hisMelding anarchy and abrasiveness with an arching melody, Massachusetts band the Acacia Strain have created their own corner of the music world; while the four piece is certainly beholden to death metal and hardcore, to call them metalcore or deathcore would unfairly diminish them. While the band themselves describe their fourth effort, CONTINENT, as their darkest to date, a playfulness still abounds, instantly apparent in titles that reference comic