The Acacia Strain are dragging two decades of destruction back onto the road.
Massachusetts heavyweights The Acacia Strain have announced their Summer 2026 US tour, ‘You Are Safe From The Dead Walk Here’, a run that leans as hard into the past as it does the band’s current era.
Kicking off June 4 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the tour stretches across the country before wrapping up in Des Moines, Iowa on June 20, along for the ride are The Callous Daoboys, Fromjoy, and Mask, stacking the lineup with bands that thrive in the same suffocating intensity.
Tour dates
- Thursday, June 4 – Harrisburg, PA – Capital City Music Hall
- Friday, June 5 – Amityville, NY – AMH
- Sunday, June 7 – Richmond, VA – Canal Club
- Tuesday, June 9 – Columbus, OH – The King of Clubs
- Wednesday, June 10 – Johnson City, TN – Capone’s
- Friday, June 12 – Jacksonville, FL – The Albatross
- Saturday, June 13 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – Culture Room
- Sunday, June 14 – Pensacola, FL – HandleBar
- Tuesday, June 16 – Birmingham, AL – Workplay Theatre
- Wednesday, June 17 – Chattanooga, TN – Barrelhouse Ballroom
- Friday, June 19 – Wichita, KS – Wave
- Saturday, June 20 – Des Moines, IA – Wooly’s
Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 17th at 10am local time here.
This one lands at an interesting point in The Acacia Strain timeline, they’re marking 20 years of ‘The Dead Walk’, while still riding the weight of last year’s You Are Safe From God Here. If you’re expecting a full nostalgia set, Vincent Bennett has already shut that down:
“THE DEAD WALK IS 20.YOU ARE SAFE FROM GOD HERE ISN’T EVEN A YEAR OLD YET. NO WAY WE ARE PLAYING EVERY SONG OFF A 20-YEAR-OLD RECORD WHEN WE JUST CAME OUT WITH A NEW ONE. THE BEST WE CAN DO IS LIKE 5 OR 6 SONGS — TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT. THE DEAD WALK SONGS. YOU ARE SAFE FROM GOD HERE SONGS. CALLOUS DAOBOYS SONGS — DURING THEIR SET ONLY. PLUS FROMJOY AND MASK ARE GOING TO BE THERE. INTIMATE VENUES. LIMITED BARRICADES. COME COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW WE DIDN’T PLAY THE ONE SONG YOU REALLY WANTED TO HEAR.”
It’s classic Bennett. Blunt, a little confrontational, and completely aware of what the band is. The Acacia Strain have never been about giving fans exactly what they want, it’s about giving them what hits hardest in the moment.
That push and pull has defined the band’s recent output too, after the dual release of Step Into The Light and Failure Will Follow in 2023, they doubled down again with You Are Safe From God Here, stretching their sound without softening it, it’s still punishing, just more deliberate in how it lands.
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