The Absence, by The Absence

The Absence

by The Absence

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pinkytheent A melodic death metal powerhouse!!! Death metal evolved indeed! Major vibes of Dethklok, Revocation, and Death in here, in the best way. Every song is a banger, packed with head-bashing rhythms and bass thunder, absolutely killer guitar melodies, and evocative and well-written lyrics, delivered with panache. Always have a soft spot for the Absence! Don’t know if you remember the tiny show my buddy Matt Foster booked for you in State College WAY back, but it’s a core metal memory of mine! Favorite track: The Silent Eye.

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	Vagrant Death 00:00 / 03:48

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1.	Communion Carbonized 03:30	lyrics	buy track
It comes in walls of silence The hatred of the hidden flame They always seem to strike the match While you retain the blame From the corners of a fuming mouth Such fire chars under your chest Insanity lit by lashing tongues These minds that fail to see So they strike the inferno flame A blaze that burns yet casts no light Commitments now combust Our final communion now carbonized For every falsified claim The moments that you maim Bore to a depth unbound This connection cremates From the corners of a fuming mouth Such fire chars under your chest Insanity lit by lashing tongues All acceptance fails Every action soaked in malevolence Your prevalent chosen accelerant Accusation eminent In the holocaust of prominence
2.	The Silent Eye 05:58 video	lyrics	buy track
Can you feel the unnerving Pressurizing swells inside your mind Tension ascends Infernal forming hell Dark clouds are breeding When all remaining life begins to flee Deluge descending Under the watch all hope deceased Into the winds that whip The consuming storm from the crawling sky Through the merciless Deceitful watch of the silent eye Claustrophobic The darkening disarray of light Faith deformed In ripping tempest wind You suffer the deadly Retribution from revolted skies Infrastructure Air-born and un-paralyzed Into the winds that whip The consuming storm from the crawling sky Through the merciless Deceitful watch of the silent eye Into the winds that whip Consuming storms from the crawling sky Merciless The deceitful watch of the silent eye The infernal gaze of the silent eye The blackening Winds of vengeance and pulverizing rain I watch the horizon crack Released from restraint Can you feel the unnerving Pressurizing swells inside your mind Tension ascending Infernal forming hell Dark clouds are breeding When all remaining life begins to flee Deluge descending Under the watch……..
3.	Vagrant Death 03:48	lyrics	buy track
Lingering desiccation A banquet of dust for cadaverous kings Infinities are eaten Such an ill-gotten and grotesque feast Inhale the guilt Yearning nooses Groveling, forever in wrest These morsels ring around It’s never ending slake, engraving your neck Inhale the guilt You choke on it still An all elusive end For the ever-long abraded soul Wandering starvation heart The vagrant dead around your darkened home The everlong abraded soul The vagrant dead around your darkened home The vagrancy of death Lonesome in ruined reek Slithering starvation Such cravings that never cease The vagrancy of death Lonesome in ruined reek Emptiness eternal This famine is now your feast Roving erosion Withering flora forever in search Vile eccentricities An infected bloom in roaming thirst
4.	Planetary Mortuary 05:31	lyrics	buy track
As gravity grips I speed from astral possession Decelestialized falling from seamless space Through luminous bodies fever soaked in hysterics Under thundering clouds beneath: Tidal waves of blood as far as I can see De-ascend the abyss Through the septic heavens into scabbing seas Oceanic necropolis This world of blood Planetary Mortuary De-ascend the abyss Through the septic heavens into scabbing seas In solitude, still left adrift Behold a world of blood Planetary Mortuary I hit the violent tide Swirling sights I can’t unsee Down in the fathomless maw My crimson salted crypt at sea Through the cracking shift of atmospheric recession I see tidal waves of an endless crimson hell Through the expanse of the reddening wake Into madness I see a world of endless blood This hemorrhaging sea that swallows me whole De-ascend the abyss Through septic heavens, into scabbing seas Oceanic necropolis This world of blood Planetary Mortuary De-ascend the abyss Through septic heavens, into scabbing seas In solitude, still left adrift This world of blood Planetary Mortuary
5.	Surface Of A Dead World 01:36		buy track
6.	Grieving Winds 04:48	lyrics	buy track
Worship unhallowed nightmares Of horrors unsurpassed This funeral thirst in putrid praise A frenzied feast fantastic Hand in claw - demonic grasp Oblivion breathing - a howling rasp Bursting spores of consummate gore Eternal reach miasmic These grieving winds they carry The stench of the exhumed Verminous choirs call out in praise Forever These grieving winds they carry A song for the exhumed Verminous choirs call out in praise Forever you are unentombed You’re unentombed In salted psalms of nocturne This profane verse in polluted pen Such picturesque vulgarity Majestic and grandiloquent Panoramic swirls - passing mists Skies embalm - deflorate flesh Engorging feast of eternal song This summoning ovation As these eyes pierce through my soul I befell the spectral glance In the lunar rays of equilibrant gaze My obsession ritualistic Such distance is un-beloved Disembodied, ever-blackened might The memory of a nighted king Draped in abysmal twilight Your image engrains eternal Such an array of majestic sights An empire of sunless sleep The bringer of descending and never-ending night
7.	Fleshwalker 03:42	lyrics	buy track
Mutation awakens across my skin As flesh unfolds deformed Severance befalls in shock and awe Twisting and adorned So swell in rage Bare and befouled Behold flesh walker You’re making my skin crawl Flesh Walker You’re Making my skin crawl In the torment of your impaling voice Silence now condones Indignant to your inability To relate in rational tones Now swell in rage Bare and befouled Behold flesh walker You’re making my skin crawl Flesh Walker - Making my skin crawl Flesh Walker - A plague unto us all Flesh Walker - You’re making my skin crawl Connections defleshed skinless in seconds Devoid of all feeling Watch as my flesh weeps off the bone Porous and peeling I delaminate Bare and befouled Behold flesh walker You’re making my skin crawl
8.	Escape Artist 04:43	lyrics	buy track
Looking back it’s all too simple Clarity like unstained glass Prosperity crushed into dust End actualize So move on beyond the myth Into a manifest loss of a toxic trace To be devoid of the disharmony… Such a saving grace But there you are Holding the threads of a forfeit past Severed strings unravel and snap Into nothingness The audacity - born in dread Exit strategy - fade to black A god complex of spineless stench Cross-less with no resurrection But there you are Clinging to the threads of a forfeit past Severed strings unravel and snap Into nothingness There you are Dreaming of an end all existence The truth is this: you were the one who left Farewell escape artist The audacity - born in dread Exit strategy - now fade to black What could have been - what a waste Unable to see the face of your own fate The masterpiece that you create Is making an art out of your own escape But there you are Holding the threads of a forfeit past Severed strings they snap into nothingness There you are Dreaming of an end all existence The truth is this: you were the one who left Good riddance Escape artist
9.	Breeding Hysterics 03:58	lyrics	buy track
I petition the ghost to give up As the strength of grace corrodes This bitter trickling voice in my head Indecent and exposed Predatory justification Laying blame like hand grenades Phantom limbs are reaching out From dead solidarity Petitioning an apparition Beyond the light Crawling inside your mind I’m wasted on desolation I’m haunted by ghostly resolve A lonely calling drowns in sensation Obscured and unfound Predatory justification Laying blame like hand grenades Phantom limbs are reaching out From dead solidarity Petitioning an apparition Beyond the light Crawling inside your mind Petitioning your apparitions Into the dead of night Leave your old ghosts behind Dead mind assessment Crippling convention breeding hysterics All that is present Remnant resentments of constant contention Now Confirming all accusation As this wretched possession makes The final revulsion reveal the result Exorcise and excavate

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released March 29, 2024

Jamie Stewart - Vocals
Jeramie Kling - Drums
Taylor Nordberg - Guitar, Bass, Keyboards

All music by Nordberg/Kling
All lyrics by Stewart

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jeramie Kling and Taylor Nordberg at Smoke & Mirrors Productions in Spring Hill, Florida

Artwork by Dan “Babe Ruth” Goldsworthy
Band photography by Deidra Kling

Listenable Insanity Records 2024

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The Absence Tampa, Florida

Formed in 2003, The Absence have survived the ebb and flow of the metal community. After releasing 3 albums on Metal Blade Records and 2 on M-Theory Audio, the band’s 6th album will be released on Listenable Insanity Records in March of 2024.

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