Mother's Tomb - Absent Not Dead - CD

Mother's Tomb was created on Father's Day 2018 after Jason Schwartzwalder had parted ways with Brutality and moved from Tampa back to his home in Atlanta.

Upon returning to Atlanta, Jason wrote what would become "Absent Not Dead", and enlisted some pretty talented musicians to help realize his vision, including Jeramie Kling (The Absence, Göregang, Venom Inc.).

The name, Mother's Tomb, actually has a pretty deep meaning for Jason. Mother is a word for creation and love, beauty and happiness.
Tomb is a word for end, death and sadness... Mother's Tomb is very much about the balance between dark and light, the beauty in death and the ugliness in life, which is conveyed by the music and lyrics.
"Absent Not Dead" is dedicated to Jason's cousin, Damon Matthew Card, who was murdered on January 29th 2016 in his home in Savannah Ga. Damon was the kind of person who lit up a room without saying a word.
All those around him, friend or stranger felt his energy and presence. He was special, talented at anything he wanted to do and just a genuinely good human being. The track "Absent Not Dead" is an homage to him not only in the lyrics, describing in minor detail how he died, but also that those who are not with us anymore physically are still here in the people they influenced and the accomplishment's they achieved.

Absent from sight, not dead in memory. Damon Card 11/7/93 - 1/29/2016