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Last Updated: 11/24/2009

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Thursday, November 26, 2009 


Documenting their time at the famed, Erik Rutan-owned Mana Studios in St. Petersburg, Fla., Tampa's melodic death metallers the Absence are hard at work on their third album, 'Enemy Unbound.' 

The 'magical metal mayhem' ensues while the bearded band give viewers a tour of Justin Reynolds' Pearl Vision, a listen of 'Merciless 2,' a look over producer Brian Elliott's shoulder and a super exclusive peek of the band enjoying 'The Fast and the Furious' (and offering an impromptu performance of the theme song) in the break room between takes.




"So far, everything is on track and going great," guitarist Peter Joseph tells Noisecreep. "We just can't wait to get this beast done and unleash it on the world!"

'Enemy Unbound' is due out sometime next year on Metal Blade Records. 
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 
Yes its true. We are finally entering Mana Recording studios on Monday November 2nd.
We will be tracking with Brian Elliot and Mixing duties will be handled by Jonas Kjellgren(Scar Symmetry,Carnal Forge)
We are all very excited to get this record out and to begin touring again as soon as possible. We will also be posting studio Diaries right here on our myspace page and through youtube as well.
Keep it Metal
-Patrick
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 
Peter Joseph now playing Suhr Guitars exclusively! Im super stoked to now be with Suhr exclusively, and the switch couldn't have happened at a better time! Using and abusing the first Modern I got a few months back really helped rekindle my playing and has totally helped with the writing on our new record, "ENEMY UNBOUND". And it truly feels great to push a company that I can whole heartedly feel proud about, as well as the great help and support everyone at Suhr has given me already! A huge thanks to John, Ed and Mike, you guys rule! I can't wait to see what kind of sick guitars my future holds from Suhr! Peter Joseph/ THE ABSENCE Photobucket "It's great to have Peter Joseph on board. The Absence kicks all kinds of ass in the metal scene and they really can play. You know, we get artists and bands wanting endorsement deals on a daily basis and we don't take these things lightly. We're pretty picky about the artists that we want to work with and we all checked out The Absence thoroughly and really liked what we heard - that goes for Mike Ponce as well, our resident metal head. We will definitely make a strong effort to reach the broader metal market in the future as the Modern model (and its future variants like the 7-string and the 27-fretter) and the new amps we're developing for the future are so perfect for those types of sounds. Brutal, crushing, heavy, mean, etc. are all terms we like. But we want to add some musicality as well as precision to those adjectives and I believe that's what Peter was looking for when he hooked up with us. Metal market, here we come!" Ed Yoon/ SUHR GUITARS

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Monday, August 03, 2009 
So over the last month we've been goin over all the entries for the GUEST LEAD CHALLENGE... after listening to all of them we finally narrowed it down to these finalists-









Now at this point, we're giving the finalists one week to add, edit or tweek there entries and then we'll pick the final winner to go on our new record ENEMY UNBOUND. So stay posted to see who wins!!!
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Friday, July 10, 2009 
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Here the actual riff to download, Scroll 
to the bottom and click GUEST LEAD CHALLENGE


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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 

Whats up thrashers!  Once again, we need your help!  We want to know how you feel about the music scene today- bands, scenes, fads, trends, fans, labels, magazines, videos... you get the idea.

We cant really say what this is for right now, all we'll say is that you guys are what matters to us.. you make the scene, your voice does matter... so say how you feel and we'll do the rest.
 
So grab a donut, sit down and type away!  Thanks as always and you'll hear more from us soon!

Thrash!
Peter







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Saturday, June 27, 2009 
We know a lot of you dudes out there have The Absence tattoos...LET US SEE THEM!! and well post them in our photo galleries!


Like these bad asses!!!

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Thursday, March 26, 2009 
Hey there kids, Amon Amarth is touring the U.S. and Lazuraus AD aparently can not play the last three dates of that tour and we have been asked to do those shows. We will be playing the Atlanta, Orlando and Ft. Lauderdale shows.
We hope to see you there head banging and thrashing your faces off!


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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 
WHATS UP METAL HEADS?  I HAVE SOME NEWS FOR YOU. AS SOME OF YOU KNOW WE ARE WRITING FOR OUR THIRD FULL LENGTH ALBUM. ITS BEEN A BIT OF A SLOW GOING THING. WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE A RECORD THAT HAS A CLASSIC AND TIMELESS FEEL TO IT. SOME OF YOU MAY ALSO KNOW THAT RIDERS OF THE PLAGUE IS GOING TO BE A HARD ALBUM TO TOP. WE ARE DOING WHAT EVER IT TAKES TO DO JUST THAT. WE HAVE SOME IDEAS UP OUR SLEEVES TO INVOLVE YOU FANS ON THIS NEXT RECORD AS WELL. THE LAST TIME WE HAD MANY OF OUR FANS PUT THEIR NAMES IN OUR CD INSERT. KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR SOMETHING A WHOLE LOT COOLER THAN THAT.
THE MUSIC IS COMING ALONG. WE WILL BE POSTING VIDEO FOOTAGE OF THE PRE-PRODUCTION AND THE RECORDING IN THE MONTHS TO COME. THATS ALL FOR NOW.                         KEEP IT METAL!!!!
-Patrick   
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 
Well the tour kicked off in L.A.  We got there early to catch the Insiferum and Amon Amarth show at the House of Blues in Anaheim. We were not allowed to play that show for reasons beyond our control. The show was cool and we hung out with some fans and friends. The followoing day was the show at the Avalon in L.A.
We've been having a blast with the other bands and the shows are amazing.
The fans are awesome and the shows are mostly sold out. We are in route to Edmonton at the moment. Canada has the best metal fans and the ketchup is great too. We have been going on early as we are the opener. we want to let all of our fans know this for they need to get to the shows pretty early. Amon Amarth is hosting meet and greets as well so dont miss out on that either.
We will be posting more reports via video when we get to Edmonton.
Thats all for now and Stay Metal!

-Patrick


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