After a wonderful but soggy first day on the hallowed Donington turf, we arrived at the excitement of Middle Saturday for Download Festival 2024. If you’ve not yet seen it, please catch up with our review of all the action from the Friday of Download 2024! Despite the organisers efforts, conditions hadn’t improved any, with…
48 hours is a long time in the music industry. Since we published our preview of the first part of Download Festival 2024, we’ve had over half a dozen bands – Pest Control, Scowl, Speed, Zulu, Overpower and Negative Frame, and then slightly later Ithaca – decide to drop off various parts of the Download…
It still feels weird seeing Holding Absence (7/10) playing rooms as big as this one, but at this point, it really shouldn’t – they’re at the top of their game, and judging by the roar as they come onstage, a good portion of the crowd are here just for them. The Welsh quartet take to the challenge…
Holding Absence returned to the O2 Forum Kentish Town a year after their incredible performance at the 2022 Heavy Music Awards. The band hailing from Cardiff, Wales have grown leaps and bounds over the last 8 years and have been on the road growing a diehard fan base and building notoriety behind their name playing…
On August 25th, Holding Absence celebrates the conclusion of their opening trilogy of albums with the release of The Noble Art Of Self Destruction. A record all about being a work in the making, a painting made up of 1000 mistakes to form something beautiful, the band find themselves in very different positions going into…
Opening up mid afternoon for a handful of people keen to get an extra day in at the festival, Wednesday early entry has become an intimate warm up party to get you ready for 3 days of non stop live performances from the best acts on the scene. With just two stages open on Wednesday,…
Holding Absence have shared their music video for latest single ‘Honey Moon’ from upcoming album The Noble Art Of Self Destruction. Drawn from deep longing and emotion, this lovesick ballad gives us a beautiful interpretation of melancholia and loneliness. Commenting on the track, vocalist Lucas Woodland shared: “Honey Moon is perhaps Holding Absence’s most beautiful…
The announcement we’ve all been waiting for, we now know our finalists for the Heavy Music Awards 2023. Voting is now open for this years awards, so now the tough decisions start in who to vote for. Leading the pack for 2023, our favourite Scottish duo Vukovi have an impressive five nominations. Following shortly behind,…
Following a phenomenal return this year after an unexpected few years off, we’ve been counting down to 2000 Trees 2023 since the last day of the festival in July. Having recently given us our ‘returning heroes’ acts for the Wednesday of the festival, we’ve all been eager to know who else we’ll be seeing at…
Throwing it back to both bands humble beginnings, HOLDING ABSENCE and ALPHA WOLF’s four-track split EP is a unique proposition. The Lost & The Longing presents two bands with very different but striking styles and that makes for a weird listening experience but cohesiveness isn’t the goal in mind here, it’s collaboration. With that, the…
After three years of the festival circuit being put on hiatus, it was finally time for 2000Trees to join the likes of Download Festival and welcome everybody back. With lots of re-booked bands from the cancelled line-ups, the festival was announced to be a sell-out, just a week before it all got underway. With the…
Holding Absence and Alpha Wolf have announced a split EP titled The Lost & The Longing that is set for release on the 15th August via SharpTone Records and Greyscale Records (Australia and New Zealand). The EP will include four new tracks, two of which feature collaborations between both bands. In conjunction with the EP…
