THE ABSENCE Release Music Video For ‘Choirs Of Sickness’

The Absence band
Photo credit: Deidra Kling

The Florida-based melodic death metallers THE ABSENCE have unleashed a music video for their new song, “Choirs Of Sickness”. Check out the video below!

Choirs Of Sickness” is the first single from THE ABSENCE’s upcoming album Coffinized which will be released June 25 by M-Theory Audio. CD and limited-edition vinyl variants can be pre-ordered and bundled up with new merchandise to your liking at Night Shift Merchandise.

Says vocalist Jamie Stewart: “Haven’t we all been Coffinized since last year? Cooped-up, masked, distanced, trapped within a formless bubble, longing for a collective exhale. We lost loved ones; we lost time, work, sanity… in a way, we lost ourselves. In regard to most bands’ craft, we lost an integral portion of the thing that charges our collective batteries: SHOWS. We lost our abilities to release and to connect with all of our friends and family. We miss the spark; we miss the conversations; and most of all, we miss each and every one of you.

This record is a void-bending combustion chamber of creativity”, he continues. “Every single song bears a torch of deprivation, darkness and triumph. In the end, we do actually win. One second, you feel creative and accomplished, validated and whole. The next, you seem empty and worthless, and feel the claustrophobia of being forced into an unwilling casket. Coffinized collects in detail the hysterical scratches and screams found on the inside of this casket’s lid – the kind of gashes made by four beings who are very much alive and giving their all to be heard from a forced burial.”

Coffinized is THE ABSENCE‘s follow-up to their 2018 comeback record, “A Gift For The Obsessed”. That album was the band’s first in eight years, as well as their first for new label home M-Theory Audio. The time period between that album’s release and the COVID outbreak saw the band stay busy by taking their new songs to the road, touring alongside acts such as DEICIDE, ORIGIN, JUNGLE ROT, EXMORTUS  and HATCHET. Band members also stayed busy with other outside endeavors, with drummer Jeramie Kling manning the kit for VENOM INC., bassist Mike Leon gigging with SOULFLY and CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, and guitarist Taylor Nordberg playing with MASSACRE. Those three band members took the experiences from those touring gigs and reconvened in the studio with Stewart who has also been busy with his other project, Hot Graves, to put together the 11 tracks of pummeling death metal that compose Coffinized.

Track List:
1. Coffinized
2. Future Terminal
3. Choirs of Sickness
4. Radiant Devestation
5. Cathedral Dawn
6. Black Providence
7. Discordia
8. Treacherous
9. This Consuming Nocturne
10.Aperture Expands
11. Faith in Uncreation