News Svalbard release new video for How To Swim DownWatch Svalbard’s new animated video for How To Swim Down, taken from their upcoming fourth album The Weight Of The Mask.
Features 20 bands you need to watch this weekend at ArcTanGentA decade since it first arrived on the festival calendar, Bristol’s ArcTanGent has become an essential destination for fans of alternative music from far leftfield. Beyond headliners Converge, Heilung and Devin Townsend, and there are a whole galaxy of sounds to discover...
Features In the studio with Svalbard: “It’s us walking down a dark path together and confronting our demons head-on”Svalbard have spent the past year working on their highly-anticipated fourth album, The Weight Of The Mask. You’ll have to wait a bit longer to hear it, but vocalist/guitarist Serena Cherry gives a peek at what to expect. Spoiler: violins…
Music Listen to Svalbard’s playlist curated for this week’s Cover StoryThe sound of Svalbard: 15 tracks hand-picked by the band to showcase the music they’re influenced by and love the most.
The Cover Story Svalbard: “I can’t imagine not using the band as a way to express my eternal hell”For years Svalbard have carved a name for themselves with their biting, brutalising sociopolitical attacks. Now, on The Weight Of The Mask, Serena Cherry is looking inward, exploring her deep, dark battles with depression with unflinching honesty, coming out the other side their most pained, personal and powerful record yet…
Features 20 bands you can’t miss at this weekend’s 2000trees2000trees has grown into one of the most heavyweight weekends of the UK alt. music calendar in recent years. And beyond headliners Bullet For My Valentine, Soft Play and Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, there are a host of rising stars you need to highlight on that clashfinder…
News “My heart and soul is dedicated to Slipknot”: A world-exclusive interview with Clown – only in the new issue of Kerrang! magazineAhead of their record-equalling fifth headline set at Download Festival, we go deep inside the mind of Slipknot’s Clown for an eye-opening, revealing conversation about fears, family and the future…
News Svalbard pay tribute to late metal heroes with new single Eternal SpiritsSvalbard are back with a powerful new single, Eternal Spirits, which Serena Cherry has dedicated to the late Joey Jordison.
News MONO, A.A. Williams, Pupil Slicer and more announced for Portals FestivalThe stacked line-up hits EartH in London in late May...
News Deafheaven to play Sunbather in full at ArcTanGent 2023ArcTanGent have confirmed over 50 bands for next year’s festival bill – including Deafheaven performing their 2013 classic album Sunbather in full…
Reviews Album review: Fellowship – The Saberlight ChroniclesFast-rising British power metal quartet Fellowship exceed high expectations with debut album.
Features We interviewed You Me At Six on top of The Swarm rollercoasterA decade ago, You Me At Six soundtracked The Swarm at Thorpe Park. To celebrate, Svalbard singer and rollercoaster expert Serena Cherry joined them for a birthday spin…
Culture Mario, Mega Drives and multiplayer madness at Power UPIn this month’s column, Kerrang!’s gaming expert Serena Cherry heads to London for the button-bashing paradise of Power UP!
Features Inside Kerrang!’s new issue launch partyEveryone from WARGASM to Employed To Serve to Trash Boat came to celebrate the new issue of Kerrang! this week!
Culture Chocobo GP and the never-ending joy of kart gamesIn this month’s gaming column, Serena Cherry celebrates Kirby’s 30th birthday, takes a trip to the London Anime and Gaming Con, and gets ready for the new kart melee Chocobo GP!
Culture Will Pokémon Legends: Arceus be the game that original fans have been craving?In her debut gaming column, Svalbard’s Serena Cherry takes a look at Pokémon Legends: Arceus to see if it could be the game she’s always wanted…
Features The 10 most metal moments of Damnation Festival 2021After a year on hold, Damnation Festival returned with a vengeance for two days of metal mayhem this weekend. Highlights were plentiful – here's 10 of the best...
