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The Absence cover Bad Religion

Posted by Loren on May 18, 2019

The Absence cover Bad Religion
The Absence cover Bad Religion

Tampa, Florida metal band The Absence a sharing a cover of "Do What You Want," originally by Bad Religion. Besides the stream, the band is selling a 3-song tape on their current tour including the cover, a previously unreleased song, one song off last year's A Gift For The Obsessed, and one live song: “Septic Testament.”

The Absence are on tour with Deicide and others right now, including at El Corazon in Seattle tonight.

Listen to "Do What You Want" below.

THE ABSENCE live with Deicide, Origin, Jungle Rot:

05/18 Seattle, WA – El Corazon
05/20 Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall
05/21 Denver, CO – Roxy Theater
05/22 Kansas City, MO – The Riot Room
05/23 Chicago, IL – Reggie's
05/24 Cleveland, OH – The Odeon Theater
05/25 Westland, MI – Token Lounge (no Deicide)
05/26 London, ON – Call The Office (no Deicide)
05/27 Ottawa, ON – Mavericks
05/28 Toronto, ON – Mod Club
05/29 Montreal, QC – L'Astral
05/30 Quebec City, QC – Le d'Auteuil
05/31 Manchester, NH – Jewel Nightclub
06/01 New York, NY – Gramercy Theater
06/02 Reading, PA – Reverb
06/03 Durham, NC – Motorco Music Hall

The Absence cover Bad Religion
The Absence cover Bad Religion

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The Absence hails from Tampa, Florida. Anyone with a sense of history knows that in the late eighties this meant something. Death, Obituary, Deicide, and Morbid Angel all hailed from Florida and significantly helped mold the clay into what we now know as death metal. The Absence are fully aware of their roots and have set forth to continue the … Read more