Absence

Vegan straight edge hardcore-metal band from Torino, Italy.

Biography: Absence was born in early 1994 when Fabio, Michele and Gabriele got together to give birth to the first Italian all vegan straight edge band. Absence started playing a few shows with this trio formation when Daniele came around. Things started pickin' up and after a few months Stefano came along too, so, there it was five vegan sXe members together trying to push their ideals out there.

Absence recorded their first demo at Stefano's house called "The Epilogue Of Our Pain". Soon after Fabio left to live in the United States for a few months where he embraced the Hardline movement, gettin' in touch with people from Green Communication, Destroy Babylon, Vanguard or Uprising Records. When he came back to Europe things started to be really serious. Show after show people were reactin' to Absence radical provocative message on stage. Fabio even wrote the first Italian Hardline magazine called "War Bulletin" that Absence would had out at their shows. The band recorded their first 7" at Dracma Records called "From The Bloodshed". Soon after they toured the UK where they signed for Screams Of Salvation Records, to put out their first LP. Absence recorded the full-length with Daniele Giordano, Earth Crisis live sound engineer. Then Stefano left the band and Luca came along to play bass. After some shows another change occurred, in the meanwhile, when Absence put out a MCD on Catalyst Records. Guido joined the band to play bass. The band played their last show in Ieper in 2002. After almost three years of silence they came back with a different membership. They later went on to become XDestroy BabylonX.