Machukha, Healing Wound, and Acceptance

For a long time, it looked as if Acceptance would end up being one of the great lost icons of rock and roll. Two years after they formed in Seattle they released “Lost For Words”, their first E.P, and immediately enjoyed local success. The band sold over 5000 copies of the E.P locally and suddenly found themselves being courted by major record labels from all over the country. Wisely, the band neglected to sign anything more than a professional management contract at first, and after recording a second E.P in 2002, the band signed to Columbia Records for the record’s release in 2003. The band seemed poised to become rock icons on the level of Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance but the year after their debut album, “Phantoms”, was released in 2005, the band split. Their singer Jason Vena decided to quit music in favour of a steady job and a family, and the band felt that they couldn’t continue as Acceptance without him.

However, after nearly a decade of relative silence, the band announced that they were going to reunite and play Asbury Park Skate And Surf Festival as the first date of a worldwide reunion tour in 2015. Their first new song in 10 years “Take You Away” was released in May of the same year, and ever since then, the band have enjoyed the kind of renaissance that most bands in their position would kill to have. For that, Acceptance are a band that come highly recommended.