Absolved is a melodic hardcore band formed in 2021 hailing from Salt Lake City, Utah. Coming from thrash metal, hardcore punk, and pop punk backgrounds, Absolved blends melodic guitars, desperately earnest lyrics, and groovy rhythms with a traditionally bleak and heavy SLC hardcore approach. Layered into mosaic riffs, groovy song structures, and chunky mosh parts, singer Jake Cook lays bare his deepest anxieties, frustrations, passions, loves, and aspirations into lyrics woven with Tolkien imagery, metaphors, and declarations.