Artist: THE ABSENCE
Album: FROM YOUR GRAVE (CD)

Release date: 2005
Media type: CD

Initially, The Absence was started in 2001 as a means to exercise their love for European styled metal, especially Scandinavian. Two years after, in the spring of 2003 the four bandmembers began immediately, wasting no time, dropping all but one previous song and writing a slew of new ones. After a month or so the band found the perfect addition to the band in Nicholas Calaci on bass guitar, thus solidifying their already devastating line up. With a new, more powerful line up, a better attitude and a blistering array of new material, the five made their come back in the Fall of 2003. This included a wave of packed shows with such national acts as Cannibal Corpse, Six Feet Under, Napalm Death, , Dark Tranquillity, Unearth and Strapping Young Lad.

Finally, with a strong, solid line-up and an arsenal of new material, they entered famed Morrisound Studios in February of 2004. Emerging months later with their first crushing EP, the band received great praise and eventually signed to Metal Blade Records. In April 2005 the Absence entered Manna Studio with Erik Rutan (Into The Moat, Soilent Green, Hate Eternal, etc.) to record their debut full-length album for Metal Blade Records. The record, entitled "From Your Grave", is a master class in Swedish styled, melodic death metal. The band will be touring relentlessly both nationally and abroad in support of their debut release so make sure to catch them live as you are sure to be blown away!

TRACKLISTING:

01. Intro
02. A breath beneath
03. Necropolis
04. From your grave
05. Heaven ablaze
06. Summoning the darkness
07. Shattered
08. I, deceiver
09. My ruin
10. Seven demons

LINE-UP:

Patrick Pintavalle - guitar
Jamie Stewart - vocals
Jeramie Kling - drums
Peter Joseph - guitar
Nicholas Calaci - bass