The Absence Drop New Song and Announce Album

Melodic death metal outfit The Absence recently dropped a brand-new song, “The Silent Eye,” and announced they will have a new record out this year — on March 29, to be exact.

The band, for those not familiar, is something of a supergroup comprised of vocalist Jamie Stewart, guitarist Taylor Nordberg of Deicide and Inhuman Condition, and Jeramie Kling, formerly of Venom Inc. and also of Inhuman Condition. The record will be self-titled, and you can stream the new single below.

“We are extremely proud to present the details of our new self-titled album, out March 29 on Listenable Insanity Records and Blood Blast Distribution! Today we present our first single, ‘The Silent Eye’ The artwork was done by the man with limitless talent, Sir Dan ‘Babe Ruth’ Goldsworthy, Esquire!”

The new song is accompanied by a music video shot by Diedra and Kling, and the record was mixed and mastered by Kling and Nordberg at Smoke & Mirrors Productions.

This record follows their most recent album, Coffinized, which came out last year on June 25 via M-theory Audio. At the time, Stewart said about the previous album and title track:

“We have all been ‘Coffinized’ at one point or another—trapped in a distant, funerary bubble, obscured under a dark, brooding outlook. As one lingers for a collective exhale, it calls out – a seeping, miserable existence disguised. Such horrors hidden by means of mental escape. But being engulfed by your own disgust and inability can be suffocating: it collapses in, embalming into your being. You become a living casket for all of your own bitter frustrations—nailed in and buried alive.”

We can’t wait to hear what else the band have in store with this new album.