Pretekli petek je bil metalsko zelo pester, saj je prinesel kar nekaj novih izdaj. Med njimi so bili tudi The Acacia Strain, ki so izdali nov single Y in obenem najavili izid dolgometražca. Na digitalnem singlu se nahajata komada One Thousand Painful Stings in Earth Will Become Death. Njihov osmi studijski album Slow Decay pa bo izšel 24. julija pri Rise Records in prinesel sledeče komade:

Feed A Pigeon Breed A Rat
Crippling Poison
Seeing God (feat. Aaron Heard)
Solace And Serenity
The Lucid Dream (feat. Jess Nyx)
I Breathed In The Smoke Deeply It Tasted Like Death And I Smiled (feat. Zach Hatfield)
Crossgates
Inverted Person
Chhinnamasta
One Thousand Painful Stings (feat. Courtney LaPlante)
Birds Of Paradise, Birds Of Prey
Earth Will Become Death