The Absence - Death(ish)-Thrash from Tampa.

Anyone ever heard of these guys?. I've been listening to their latest CD 'Riders of the Plague' constantly all week and it rocks like a Fulci zombie in cheap stilettos.

Check them out... with your ears. http://www.myspace.com/theabsence

heard of 'em there the guys who kept bashing trivium for not being metal enough

I heard them during the summer of 2006 on the Metal Blade summer sampler that a friend let me have and I liked what I heard. I dont know about labeling them thrash though, it seems like if the music is fast it automaticaly gets a thrash label slapped on them nowadays. I would say probaly more death metal.

Maybe I'm wrong as I only heard one song though.

Retarded joke of a band:

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The Absence recently started a promotion in which audience members are allowed to trade in their Trivium t-shirts for The Absence ones after a concert. They plan on having a mass burning of these garments. Trivium is a band which The Absence along with others of the 'Metal Community' feels has been commercialized and has lost touch with its metal roots, and this promotion is one of the ways that they feel they can keep true American metal alive.

This is a band trying to become popular from Trivium's fame. The Absence are not true American metal, either. They're a dime-a-dozen metalcore does melodeath band. We've heard it a million times. And they're jealous of Trivium.

I loved the debut. Haven't heard the latest.

I haven't heard their latest.

I've enjoyed the last two releases!-TJ