Members: Stain Kristensen

Absent is an unknown Norwegian rock collective banded by the singer and songwriter Stian Kristensen. His next successful project was a syntpop-band Conetik.
Absent was disbanded in 2000. Only two releases are known to exist - a demo-CDr with 11 songs and an EP with 4 songs.

The band was:
Stian Færden Kristensen - vocals, songwriting
Hans-Ingar Ødegaard - guitars
Johanne Hjorthol - bass
Thor Granli - drums

In 2004 Stian and Hans-Ingar created a folk-styled duo called The Thirneenth Son, that later became That Lonesome Sound. The duo still exists and play gigs on local festivals in Oslo.