Metal Hammer UK

THE REBIRTH OF THE ACACIA STRAIN

At the end of 2017, after 16 years of being the frontman for The Acacia Strain, Vincent Bennett decided that he didn’t want to be the singer in a metal band anymore.

“I quit. I told the guys that we would do Warped Tour and then I was out,” he tells us today. “It wasn’t that the band weren’t doing well, we were doing good numbers, I just didn’t want to do it. I thought my sauna had run out of steam, I thought I had nothing to say anymore, and sometimes you just need to take a step back and re-evaluate, not just what you’re doing, but who you are as a person. I didn’t want to be the kind of

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