Our third full-length album ‘The Noble Art Of Self Destruction’ is available NOW on
@sharptonerecs
Watch the new music video for ‘Her Wings’ and buy/stream the record on the link below ⬇️
‘The Noble Art of Self Destruction’, our third full-length album, will be released on August 25th through SharpTone Records.
Watch the new music video for ‘False Dawn’ and preorder the album now at
Wishing you all a very merry Christmas with love from Holding Absence 🫶🏻
We’ve had a monumental year and none of this would be possible without you, our fans and your constant support. Thank you for everything ❤️
We are ecstatic to announce our “The Noble Art Of Self Destruction” headline tour around the UK and Europe! Not only is this a well-overdue headline tour for our European fans, but it’ll see us playing our biggest venues to date in the UK too!
Happy 5th birthday to our debut album “Holding Absence” - we are so grateful for the journey this album took us on!
In retrospect, what are your favourite songs off this record? 🥰
Happy Second Birthday TGMOML !! 🥳🥳
This album changed everything for our band, and we’re so honoured to hear how much you guys are still enjoying it. Thanks for helping Afterlife hit the 30 Million mark, too !!
This is ‘The Lost & The Longing’ a collaboration between Alpha Wolf & Holding Absence.
First single “Aching Longing” out now.
Full EP out August 15th via
@sharptonerecs
and
@greyscalerec
.
Can’t believe its finally here! Our brand new single ‘A Crooked Melody’ is out now and the video has just dropped. Go to to watch now 💙
Let us know what you think of it; we hope you love it as much as we do!
We’re proud to announce our brand new single, A Crooked Melody, is out this week on April 6th!
You can pre-save the single on your favourite streaming platform now 👉🏻
We can’t wait for you to hear this one!
🖼️
@bethanmillerco
‘Live & In Monochrome’ across the United Kingdom next Jan/Feb, with support from
@voidofvision
🖤
General sale Friday 10am, with exclusive mailing list presale from Wednesday 10am.
Sign up for access now at
‘The Noble Art of Self Destruction’, our third full-length album, will be released on August 25th through
@sharptonerecs
.
Watch the new music video for ‘False Dawn’ and preorder the album now at
One whole year of TNAOSD 🎉
To celebrate the first birthday of our latest record, we’ll be premiering a documentary created by
@bethanmillerco
on the making of the album this Friday.
We can’t wait to peel back the curtain on this album that means so much to us! ❤️
The Noble Art Of Self Destruction, Live & In Colour in North America 🇺🇸🇨🇦
We are elated to finally share the news of our very first headline tour in the USA & Canada! 🎉
🇺🇸 U.S.A 2022 🇺🇸
Thank you so much to
@dayseeker
for giving us the opportunity to tour the USA alongside our friends in
@thornhillmelb
and
@caskets_band
.
Presale tickets are available right now, and general sale are available this Friday via
Holding Absence proudly presents 'Beyond Belief' from the forthcoming full-length album 'The Greatest Mistake Of My Life', out April 16th 2021 on
@sharptonerecs
Buy/stream 'Beyond Belief' now and preorder the album at
🗣️1 Million Monthly Listeners🗣️
With the release of our new single “A Crooked Melody”, we’re ecstatic to have just joined the 1-Million-Monthlies club !! Thank you for all the love you’ve shown the new single, and for helping us reach this momentous achievement 🥳
We’re ecstatic to announce that we’ll be joining
@piercetheveil
on their ‘Jaws Of Life’ UK/EU tour next April! It’s a dream come true to be playing so many bucket list venues on this run and we’re thrilled to be reunited with our friends in
@dayseeker
for the run also. 🥳
We’re ecstatic to announce that on August 10th, we return home to Wales for a very special outdoor headline show at Chepstow Castle, with support from
@bandcalledcasey
@Caskets_band
&
@GlassHeartUK
🏴
Sign up for early presale access at
Surprise !! We played a brand new song last night to 12,000 people in Leipzig.
You can pre-save our new single, A Crooked Melody now 👉🏻
📹
@bethanmillerco
“TNAOSD sets the scene for Holding Absence to take themselves in whatever direction they see fit. Backed by some of the finest musicianship, lyricism and foresight UK rock has seen in generations, it’s a thrilling prospect to think about how they could evolve next.”
5/5. 😭🙌🏻
With 123 shows in the bag, 2023 was our biggest and best year yet!
Thank you for welcoming “The Noble Art Of Self-Destruction” in with open arms, and to all those who came out to say hi at a a show. We’re so grateful!
See you in 2024. ✌🏻🥳
-
@DownloadFest
, thank you for making all the waiting worth it.
You guys proved yesterday that live music will persist through everything, and we’re honoured to have been a part of it.
Thank you.
Photography by
@bethanmillerco
Holding Absence 🤝
@thornhillmelb
world-tour 🏴🌍🇦🇺
We are so excited to have some of our best friends in all of the world joining us in November for our EU/U.K. tour.
Tickets have been moving very fast & are available at
Our brand new single ‘Honey Moon’ is out now to stream everywhere.
Preorder our brand new album ‘The Noble Art of Self Destruction’ via our webstore &
@sharptonerecs
(🔗 in bio)
‘Coffin’, our next single from our split EP ‘The Lost & The Longing’ with
@alphawolfcvlt
is out this Wednesday!
You can Pre-Save it on your favourite music streaming services via
Thank you to everybody who attended our acoustic performance last night at St John’s Church. It was one of our most emotional performances in a long while, and capped off a great week celebrating the release of TNAOSD!! Today we fly to the US, we can’t wait 🥳
📸
@bethanmillerco
Holding Absence proudly presents 'nomoreroses', the fourth and final single from the forthcoming full-length album 'The Greatest Mistake Of My Life', out April 16th 2021 on
@sharptonerecs
.
Watch the full music video and preorder/presave the album at
🇺🇸 USA - We’ll be returning to your beautiful country this August/September with none other than
@silverstein
,
@amityaffliction
and
@UNITYTX
.
Tickets on sale Friday 5th May @ 10AM via
We’re incredibly excited to announce our return to North America this September/October with the awesome
@SWStheband
Tickets are available 10am local this Friday, but keep your eye on SWS socials for special presales!
We’ll see you soon 🇺🇸
EUROPE & LONDON TOUR NEWS!!
We’re beyond delighted to announce that we’ll be making our way across Europe in February, March and April with our new friends in
@ElectricCallboy
!
We’re looking forward to visiting so many of our favourites cities and some for the first time!
Afterlife.
Friday 15th January, 2021.
The second single from our upcoming album 'The Greatest Mistake Of My Life'.
Pre-Save and set Youtube reminder here:
Chepstow, that was unbelievable !! There is so much to be said about last night, but the sentiment that comes to mind the most is gratitude. Thank you for everything. 🫶🏻
📸
@bethanmillerco
🇺🇸 Ecstatic to announce we will be returning to the USA this September to support
@sensesfail
alongside
@thousandbelow
Tickets on sale tomorrow 9am PST / 12pm EST over at
See you then!
We’re incredibly excited to be returning to North America this April/May with the wonderful
@ThePlotInYou
alongside our old friends in
@thornhillmelb
and
@banksarcade
🇺🇸 🇨🇦
Tickets onsale Friday from 10am local time.
Thank you so much for all your love, understanding and support the past few days. We really do have the best fans 🫶🏻
Lucas is feeling a little better and the show tonight will be going ahead in Cologne. It’s our biggest headline show in Europe to date - we can’t wait!! 🥳
365 days of ‘The Greatest Mistake Of My Life’.
An exceptional journey we started in 2020. Little did we know how far this album would travel around the world & carry us to shores we’d only ever dreamed of visiting.
📸 by
@bethanmillerco
Today is the 2 year anniversary of our debut self-titled album
An album is just a collection of music and words but the people that we met and the memories that we made will always give it a special place in our hearts
Thank you for taking this music and making it so much more
We’re delighted to announce that we’ll be joining the legends in
@youmeatsix
for their ‘Sinners Never Sleep’ 10 year anniversary shows next June, alongside
@THEHUNNABAND
!
Tickets for these and all shows are available now at
🇬🇧 U.K. + EUROPE 🇪🇺
Tickets are now on sale for our biggest ever headline tour!! If you can make it, we would absolutely love for you to join us there this November.
Tickets are available NOW via
🔗
📷
@bethanmillerco
Happy New Year from Holding Absence!
Despite being held back from playing live shows for so many months of 2021, it was our best year yet! You guys embraced The Greatest Mistake Of My Life with open arms and sung along with us at some of our favourite shows and festivals to date
Super excited for you guys to see the new music video for ‘A Crooked Melody’ - we had so much fun making it! Here’s a look behind the scenes! 💙
Don’t forget to pre-save the single here 👉🏻
Well
@downloadfest
- what an exceptional day.
There’s lot of prestige that comes with playing this festival that we do not take lightly, & we feel so fortunate to have had some of the most defining moments our musical lives here.
📸 by
@bethanmillerco
Yesterday was an absolute landmark moment for us.
There aren’t words that really explain how we felt. Thank you to everyone for sharing such a momentous day with us.
We will be at
@JERAONAIR
, Live & In Colour on the Eagle Stage at 1:30pm! See you there!
📸 by
@bethanmillerco
The Noble Art of Self Destruction live in Cardiff, Wales 🏴
It’s hard to put into words how special last night was for us all. We grew up in a small town in the South Wales valleys coming down to shows in this venue and watching some of our favourite bands grace the stage.
Holding Absence are pleased to announce our biggest ever UK Headline Tour for October/November 2021!
General sale begins Friday 10am, but those signed up to our mailing list will have a special early presale from 10am Thursday.
Join the list at
Last night was a dream come true in our hometown of Cardiff! We’ve all grown up watching our favourite bands play the iconic
@UtilitaArenaCDF
. Having the chance to grace that stage is something we’ll never forget. Thank you Cardiff!! 🥹
‘Honey Moon’ is a lovesick poem that looks to the stars to portray a deep, isolated yearning for the love of another.
Watch the video, stream the track, and preorder the new album at
In an amendment to our previous post, we’re a little bit blown away to share that you guys sold out Chepstow Castle in less than 2 minutes!! 🤯
Thank you SO much for your support, and congrats to everyone who managed to secure a ticket.
🏴 🏰
Ecstatic to announce that this January we’ll be touring the U.K. with the mighty
@ffaf_official
!
We can’t wait to play alongside them on this very special tour, alongside our friends in
@staticdress
.
Limited remaining tickets for are available at
The Noble Art of Self Destruction at Slam Dunk, North.
Thank you to everyone who watched our set at Slam Dunk this weekend. From playing early on Key Club stage 5 years ago to playing to so many of you this weekend was nothing short of a dream come true!
📸
@bethanmillerco
A little look at our merch spread for our first ever USA headline tour. We always appreciate you picking up merch but even more so with all the transport issues we’ve had 🥹
Which is your favourite design? Let us know in the comments below 🫶🏻
📸
@bethanmillerco
London, what a beautiful night and the perfect end to a perfect tour!! Ally Pally has always been such a bucket list venue for us and to stand on that stage and play to a sold out crowd was a dream come true!! 💙
📸
@bethanmillerco
We are proud to announce that Holding Absence will be appearing, live and in colour, at Download Festival 2022! We can’t wait for live music to finally return, and are hugely excited to be sharing the Avalanche Stage with so many other awesome bands.
One week of TNAOSD already!! We had a blast touring across record stores in the UK. We’ll never take for granted how special our fanbase is, thank you for your support and love you have shown our third record already!! 💙
📹
@bethanmillerco
The Noble Art of Self Destruction live in Manchester 🇬🇧
Manchester, that was unreal! When we played this venue with
@ASITISofficial
5 years ago, it felt like the biggest room in the world to us; to come back and headline to so is a dream come true 🫶🏻
📸
@bethanmillerco
Chepstow, today’s the day! 🏴
It’s going to be a special evening, celebrating with some of our favourite bands in the UK scene right now. We’re thrilled with this line up and would encourage you all to come down early to enjoy!!
More info here 👇🏻
‘Curse Me With Your Kiss’ - taken from the livestream event ‘’The Greatest Mistake Of My Life’ Live & In Colour’.
Watch now -
You can also watch the full show back on demand until 9pm BST on Saturday July 24th at