Acres are gearing up for the release of a deluxe edition of their 2025 album ‘The Host’, including a cover of HIM’s classic track ‘Buried Alive By Love’.
The band have put their stamp on the track first released back in 2003 on their influential album ‘Love Metal’.
In taking such an iconic track and making it your own is one thing, but doing it in a way that showcases its DNA in a completely different way is whole other challenge in itself. And Acres do this with vigor and vibrancy.
Forcing the romantic intentions of the tune through a lens of British post-hardcore, the result feels even more broken and beaten than before, with vocalist Ben Lumber pushing his vocal cords to their melodic limit. Throw in plenty of soaring atmosphere and thrashing blastbeats, and you have a completely new angle on the song.
Ben had this to say about it:
“When we were planning a cover HIM were instantly the first band that came to mind. They’ve been such a huge part of my life and honestly one of the main reasons I ever wanted to be in a band. When I was younger, my friends and I would spend hours in the garage learning and playing HIM songs so getting to bring Buried Alive By Love into the world of Acres all these years later feels like a proper full circle moment. It’s our way of paying respect to a band that had a massive part in shaping who I am as a musician.”
The deluxe version of ‘The Host’ is set for release on November 06 via Solid State Records, and brings together ‘The Host’ and EP ‘What It’s Like to Feel Worthless’ alongside a load of live tracks, remixes and more.
Ben had this to say about the intentions of the deluxe edition:
“‘The Host’ has always felt closely connected to the What It’s Like to Feel Worthless EP, so doing a deluxe version felt like the perfect way to bring those two worlds together and close out this era of the band. We loved the idea of putting everything into one record, but also giving people something new with the additional tracks and different versions of songs. We’ve always been into reworking our music whether that’s stripping a song back, a live version or letting it exist in a completely different way. As music fans ourselves, we’ve always loved when bands give you another side of a record you already know, so it felt right to do that with ‘The Host.’”
Here is what the full tracklisting looks like:
1. Bloodlust
2. Not So Different
3. Staring At The Sun
4. Take My Last Breath
5. Built To Bleed
6. Push Me Away
7. Empty Room
8. Steal The Light
9. Welcome To The Family
10. Around Again
11. Leave You To Rot
12. A Different Shade Of Misery
13. Lost
14. Deadweight
15. Lost (Acoustic)
16. Buried Alive By Love
17. Bloodlust (deletetheinternet re-wire)
18. Staring At The Sun (Acoustic)
19. Not So Different – Live in Munich
20. Built To Bleed – Live in Munich
Acres are set to head out on a headline tour across the UK and Europe next month, with support coming from Wayside, What Lies Below and Lifespark.
Here are all the dates:
OCTOBER
14 – BRISTOL The Exchange
15 – LEEDS The Key Club
16 – MANCHESTER Rebellion
17 – LONDON Downstairs At The Dome
18 – SOUTHAMPTON The Joiners
20 – ANTWERP Kavka
21 – UTRECHT De Helling
22 – HAMBURG Monkeys
23 – BERLIN Cassiopeia
24 – LEIPZIG Naumanns
25 – POZNAŃ Pod Minoga
27 – PRAGUE Bike Jesus
28 – VIENNA Viper Room
29 – MUNICH Feierwerk
30 – AARAU KiFF
31 – COLOGNE Helios37
NOVEMBER
01 – WIESBADEN Schlachthof
