Massachusetts’ heavy hitters THE ACACIA ST R AIN have cracked into the Billboard charts at #2 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and #107 on the Billboard Top 200 chart with the first week sales of the band’s new album, Continent, which saw an August 19 release through Prosthetic Records.

Scanning nearly 5,600 copies its first week, Continent, is the follow-up to 2006’s The Dead Walk, and was recorded with producer Zeuss (Hatebreed, Shadows Fall) and features in-depth artwork from Paul Romano (Trivium, The R ed Chord, Mastodon) on both CD and vinyl platforms.

“We’re not really sure how to feel,” frontman Vincent Bennett said. “Obviously, we’re really excited we made charts and very appreciative to everyone that bought the record this first week, but at same time it’s really hard to sell records with all the people downloading nowadays. We’re really happy that people still went out and bought it did and we hope they enjoy it. To the people that downloaded it, we hope you come out to one the shows and at least sing along and have a good time.”