Have The Acacia Strain really been a band for more than four years? It seems like just last week that we heard first the hardcore metal assault of their 2004 debut 3750. And now, they've already released their fourth album Continent, and they sound all professional and s--t... That's professional in a good way, not in a super-slick, overproduced and with too many gooey melodic vocals manner. What's more, The Acacia Strain still tear it up live like a new band aching to get noticed and willing to do whatever it takes to be heard.

MetalInjection.net recently filmed them at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey as part of Infest 2008. Click "more" to watch the band's dizzying medley of "3750" from their first album and "4X4" from 2006's "The Dead Walk." Read more...