THE ACACIA STRAIN Guitar Riff Evolution (...and life is very long - Gravebloom)

[@johnnygotgrowls]

It was impossible to just choose two songs off of each record so plz don't be like "Oh bUt WhAt AbOuT bLaBbY bLaH"... I absolutely love this band with all of my careless heart.

[@SuperJeffhardy234]

man, i can't believe you skipped bLaBbY bLaH! that's my favorite song by TAS! but in all seriousness, perfect choices for the songs in my opinion

[@MacKaPacKa]

Wormwood would have been hard because every track is a banger!

[@metalbynumber]

Do a 2.0 lol 3750 is an amazing and underrated album

[@danieldaponde9665]

Pretty close! Source: me... I wrote some of those riffs.

[@mattlombardi54]

My favorite TAS song is ALL OF THEM!

[@K3ll3yInsanity]

Andrew my dude, make a fit for an autopsy riff evolution

[@Rob-py1tm]

Zach Kelley yes! Such a good band!

[@erikcontreras4893]

@@Idktbh843 5 actually

[@hippyhobo6285]

IGN: 9/10, not enough chugs.

[@skyxonxfire]

Can we talk about how the acacia strain are kings of ending albums. Every single outro is insane and completely different from each other. Fuck I love these guys.

[@shortly101]

Wormwood was my absolute favorite album of theirs. Front to back masterpiece.

[@nolanmillar1762]

Yup

[@hectorvegasduque2234]

Coma witch is much better imo, the riffs aren't as simple as in wormwood, where they can end up being repetitive

[@nicholasveneziano6547]

Bro I say this all the time, wormwood is one of my all time favorite albums

[@shortly101]

Their slow decay album grew on me fast to being one of my new favorites. But wormwood is still BEAST

[@JohnRees3]

Continent is still my favorite but wormwood is like 1A

[@loganhenshall1839]

Every Time I Die riff comp!!!

[@oceandrinksboat]

YES YES YES

[@layyah0905]

The bass supporting the guitar is absolutely thunderously huge...

[@steelo_g]

Wicked vid! The Acacia Strain is my favorite band! Too many favorite songs to choose one!

[@Squiggly-zg8zc]

5:52 “could you pay me in advance?”

[@jonpresley1163]

You dudes nailed that dumb thicc tone perfectly!

[@LucasBozovich]

Andrew, I can’t thank you and Johnny enough for doing this, as there are many things wrong with their tabs, and there’s not enough of their songs tabbed. Since Johnny loves TAS so much, if he’s down, I could use his expertise to get the rest tabbed 😉

[@LucasBozovich]

If he is, have him PM my FB account Lucas Bozovich (you’ll know it’s name when you see me holding a Dean Razorback with 4 other people in my back yard).

[@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic]

I love how the Acacia Strain can take a really boring riff and make it awesome 😂🤘

[@twelvegaugeslug7840]

Clean and heavy as fuck Do a follow-up with Slow Decay and Step into the Light

[@nolanmillar1762]

Wormwood anniversary tour! That’s when the roof will cave in and the world falls the fuck apart!!!

[@WillNyeTheTurfgrassguy]

Never heard so many variations of the same 3 open notes in my life

[@TooMuchSascha]

Yah but it slaps hard tho

[@Tecom38415]

Go to an acacia show and you’ll see why lol

[@jbasti227]

People hate on this kind of style but tbh there is a level of creativity that goes into it for that same reason

[@rorz999]

That's exactly why I like them lol

[@terraincognita9614]

I mean that seems like something a virgin neckbeard techdeath fan that gets no bitches would say but i telll ya what monsieur Neckbeard, for their first several albums I would agree

[@Hellscrap3r]

I would've loved to've seen Human Disaster or Tactical Nuke in there, but I'm happy with what we were given. This was sick as hell.

[@vincenielsen2902]

Phenomenal! Glad to see TAS in a video of yours again.

[@Abasedbymygrief]

Andrew loves Emmure Johnny loves TAS *shits gonna hit the fan*

[@BrandonGetty]

I was so excited when you started playing Time & Death & God and then when you got to the drop it ended :-( Anyway this band has led me to all the sludge I listen to now and was lucky enough to meet DL at a baby shower which is crazy. Anyway most exciting guitar evolution yet!!!!

[@claybank5687]

I just saw vctms live not long ago. Great show

[@underthekxife]

The Dead Walk > rest of TAC discography

[@powerhitter033]

3:40 I was just waiting for that breakdown and you blue balled me. lol

[@patricky7137]

Still would like a Norma Jean video!

[@xangrycatmanx5104]

It has to include the early Luti-Kriss stuff as well

[@flannelgay420]

Johnny’s face while playing “Beast” is perfect

[@NivanSharma]

dude i love your guitar tone so much! do you think you can maybe do a tutorial on how you go about mixing metal guitars?

[@zacht2375]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. IVE BEEN ASKING FOR EVER

[@rasluffi]

DITOM first album of theirs I heard, still my favorite

[@travis3754]

THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH

[@wrektem240]

Continent is still one of my favorite albums to date

[@vkw619]

My favorite music KZbinr covering my all time favorite band? Never stop AB

[@xpsycho_nautx]

Fuck yeeees. Favorite band. Thanks for this.

[@danm7576]

I love the way TAS would use dissonant chords in their early music

[@CineMusician]

This reminds me that it is about time for some fresh TAS songs. Loved your selection of songs!

[@iletthedevilin828]

My favorite is skynet for sure, great video

[@gtillx3113]

TAS guitar evolution on my suggested was awesome, Observer making it on the list made it even more awesome. Would love to see "blah blah and blah" but all great tracks, great work gents.

[@devinbender8428]

One of my favorite bands! (And Emmure) Killer work dude! Definitely too many tracks to choose from

[@hectorvegasduque2234]

0:00 that riff sounds suspiciously similar to the intro riff of "sepulchral voice" by Sodom

[@y.cortez657]

AWESOME VIDEO... !! 🤘🏼😎👍🏼🎸

[@kierancameron4796]

Johnnys wicked at guitar, I’ve only ever seen his vocal stuff which is tight too didn’t know he could lay it down on the guitar too

[@jbasti227]

The Beast riff still gives me chills to this day. So fucking good.

[@Hahvayz]

yoooo Time and death and god???? yesssssss thats the best song \m/ thanks for including that guys

[@johnnygotgrowls]

ShookHot It’s my fave ❤️

[@_Egil]

I really like The Chambered Nautilus

[@6slayer6sam62]

Observerer! The balls you have!

[@jpweidemoyer8544]

Carbomb was the very first Acacia Strain song I ever heard, and I've been a fan ever since. Quite the evolution, I must say. Thanks for doing this. Oh and P.S. nice with repping Ola here as well \m/

[@keganhoelzer5515]

going to see these guys live with Lamb of God on August 14th and im fucking HYPED

[@skyxonxfire]

I got a 3750 tattoo some years ago. I will NEVER regret it.

[@scottdonovan734]

That was cool, guys! I’d love to see a follow-up where you analyze the evolution of the riffs in depth.

[@pascalcorbin6523]

so good

[@jordenbergman1007]

this is great. You're a great guy.

[@gustavoagraaugusto]

Andrew, there is a band called car bomb you should do riff revolution of them, good luck trying to figure out how the guitarist does that fucking guitar noises

[@suppq9547]

periphery next please!

[@christiananthony4649]

Dope AF. You covered the best of all my fave parts

[@imHEIZT]

Finally,,, The Acacia Strain!

[@jordanwendell6279]

Cauterizer sounded sooo good

[@hagggle3727]

Favorite band, favorite KZbin guitarist, new favorite video I guess

[@Ryo7_7]

One my favorite bands of all time. Epic live.

[@Boomchubbychoom]

Sick video. If you guys are ever bored, I love the riffs and instrumentals for The Dead Walk and Continent and would like to hear your guitar play throughs.

[@myvisionisaugmented2984]

Where's tactical nuke? Their most iconic song

[@allsome1o1]

THANK GOD HE FINALLY DID IT! 🤘🏻

[@calebno10]

We need a Contortionist version of this

[@iancaulk5537]

Good selections! A few of these were my favorites from each album! (CRTS from life is very long; beast from wormwood; and bitter pill from gravebloom!) I dunno whether to say that Skynet is my favorite off of continent cuz I like a few other songs practically almost or equally as much, but it do be one of the best on said album. Whoa shut it down is an awsum song and goes hard...I wish, however, that you did burnface instead, since that's my favorite off the dead walk (which is my favorite album actually). But that's a'ight. You guys were amazing, and I enjoyed this video!

[@nagolsitler5360]

Your car bomb sounds so fucking crushing and 3750 omg I love it

[@nagolsitler5360]

Spoke too soon all of this is crushing my soul

[@Spencer-it1ue]

Omg how did you get that tone... please

[@jacobhill3302]

Olas soul came through the solar and asked could it chug

[@crushingart]

This was incredible thanks guys! The Acacia Strain has been my favorite band since I first heard them when I was 13, 11 years ago. I share the same love for the ongoing progression of the band's musicality, conceptually poetic lyrics, and aggression they deliver with each new album. Keep this shit up! What are your thoughts for It Comes In Waves?

[@rockcsak7748]

I FUCKING LOVE THE ACACIA STRAIN!!!

[@darrinwiley3193]

Death is the only mortal never happened

[@VirgoKing89]

A Meshuggah one would be sick!

[@toyotaecw]

The notes may not evolve, but the intensity for which I want to curb stomp kittens absolutely does.

[@travis3754]

Favorite song is impossible to pick but Bitter Pill definitely is up there

[@sleepteam]

Really missed that pinch harmonic on WHOA!

[@eienhyojinkel2556]

Im just happy to hear carbomb cuz thats a banger!!

[@НикитаКостылев-ь8к]

i love all eras of acacia strain, but still i think that firing DL was their biggest mistake. early tas works were great and very melodic!

[@Angry_divorced_dad]

Why did they fire him?

[@НикитаКостылев-ь8к]

@@Angry_divorced_dad He was not touring with them since 2009, only studio and composing stuff.

[@shawnriffninjareacts7316]

DL's riffs always hit harder then a 20 ton bag of shit.

[@WhatGrenadeWhere]

Do one on Suffocation.

[@powerhitter033]

Someone needs to cover and tab all of Doomblade

[@dieselnautburkey4677]

About time lol

[@mikeyg6038]

Love the solar guitars

[@sistinechoppers]

This is awesome I would’ve loved to see some stuff off of money for nothing on this video. Do some more. More acacia strain.

[@DanielAttaway]

Johnny's beard rips. Thanks for the video fellahs.

[@malfurionstormrage6782]

Can we get Angel Maker next???

[@joshuascott1266]

You left out the dirtiest pinch harmonic of all fucking time that was in Whoa! Shut it Down... I am disappoint, son.

[@aftertheendtimes]

Epic🤘🎸😆💚

[@DALILAVEY]

you should do a tone breakdown for "death is the only mortal", that tone is insane!

[@the_dark_shroud9014]

This was absolute fire. Still never got why DIOM is a lot of people’s least favorite TAS record🤔

[@tylerc2857]

zachary gordon me either, it’s actually my favorite

[@the_dark_shroud9014]

Same man!! It’s fire.

[@thebrutalchoice]

The Impaler...

[@Mzor81]

YES

[@natetischer8664]

Wormwood and DITOM were played on 8 strings. Would have loved to see u bust the 8 string out for those songs

[@BaenaCarcosa]

Same tuning either way minus the high string, I have my 7 set up in drop F already so it makes way more sense to use that over an 8 string and tuning it up (which I hate doing haha)

[@natetischer8664]

@@BaenaCarcosa yea I know it's the same haha I just love the look of the 8 string. Thanks for replying btw, I love the video. TAS is one of my favorite bands.

[@6slayer6sam62]

Have I told you lately that I 💓 you, Andrew

[@jamesembrey3100]

Fuckin hell I already worked out for 4 hours today and this has me itching to deadlift to Beast for the 5000th time

[@zachn12345]

You just made this video to show off all your bad ass guitars

[@NB_740]

Balboa towers

[@cmd_f5]

Heavy!

[@IAmSquatch1]

Acacia slaps hard! 🤘🏻

[@pesci_fabio]

bro it's like 6 am where I live I haven't slept in days and I'm not getting fed, please send help I'm in the basement

[@ColtsFan2016]

nice

[@mikeeppenbro2445]

He Is Legend riff evolution would be siiiiiick

[@dudesteve6130]

Dope

[@MindlessVocalists]

Death is the only Mortal was a fantastic album. But Acacia Strain just never dissappoints. Gravebloom was a lot sludgier but overall still a style that suits them very well. Really excited what the future holds

[@K.K.111]

Sometimes I forget how heavy 6 strings can sound cause of all the crazy 8 string shit in modern metal lmao

[@CODESTER978]

0:38 The face of love

[@nagolsitler5360]

Continent is underrated they have such good riffs and songs on that cd

[@danieldaponde9665]

Pretty close! Source: me... I wrote some of those riffs.

[@danieldaponde9665]

Jesus is Dog : first three records yes! Cool man sounds interesting.