Svalbard

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Svalbard announce that “2026 will be the final year” of the band

“Your support has meant the world to us”: Svalbard have announced their impending split, with a final UK tour at the end of 2025, and some farewell dates to be announced for next year…

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Reviews

Album review: Employed To Serve – Fallen Star

Going supernova! Brit metal heroes Employed To Serve smash all boundaries on exhilarating, perfect fifth album, Fallen Star.

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Zetra announce debut album, release new single with Svalbard’s Serena Cherry

“The second chapter of our realisation emerges…” Watch the video for Zetra’s new single, Starfall, featuring Serena Cherry of Svalbard.

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See Justine Jones and Serena Cherry cover Disasterpiece by Slipknot

Because there’s nothing more romantic than screaming, ‘I wanna slit your throat and f*ck the wound’, Justine Jones and Serena Cherry have covered Slipknot’s Disasterpiece for Valentine’s Day.

Features

The Kerrang! staff’s top albums of 2023

You’ve seen the Kerrang! top 50. Now check out what the staff were individually listening to this year…

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Svalbard’s Serena Cherry picks her favourite video games of 2023

Serena Cherry – Svalbard’s resident game obsessive – runs down the best stuff game-world has thrown up this year…

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The 50 best albums of 2023

The Kerrang! verdict on the 50 albums that shaped 2023.

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In pictures: Kerrang!’s Kerristmas party

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… the K! Kerristmas bash with a bunch of our favourite people!

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Enslaved announce 2024 tour with Svalbard and Wayfarer

“The blare of the great horn shall resound once again!” Enslaved are hitting the road for a 16-date tour with Svalbard and Wayfarer next March…

Reviews

Album review: Svalbard – The Weight Of The Mask

Svalbard open up on the depths of depression on their gorgeous and masterful fourth album, The Weight Of The Mask.

Features

Svalbard’s track-by-track guide to new album The Weight Of The Mask

Svalbard’s brilliant and deeply personal new album, The Weight Of The Mask, comes out on Friday. Serena Cherry guides us through its emotional valleys, one song at a time…

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Svalbard release new video for How To Swim Down

Watch 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 ArcTanGent

A 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 Story

The 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…

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20 bands you can’t miss at this weekend’s 2000trees

2000trees 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…

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Svalbard announce that “2026 will be the final year” of the band

Album review: Employed To Serve – Fallen Star

Zetra announce debut album, release new single with Svalbard’s Serena Cherry

See Justine Jones and Serena Cherry cover Disasterpiece by Slipknot

The Kerrang! staff’s top albums of 2023

Svalbard’s Serena Cherry picks her favourite video games of 2023

The 50 best albums of 2023

In pictures: Kerrang!’s Kerristmas party

Enslaved announce 2024 tour with Svalbard and Wayfarer

Album review: Svalbard – The Weight Of The Mask

Svalbard’s track-by-track guide to new album The Weight Of The Mask

Svalbard release new video for How To Swim Down

20 bands you need to watch this weekend at ArcTanGent

In the studio with Svalbard: “It’s us walking down a dark path together and confronting our demons head-on”

Listen to Svalbard’s playlist curated for this week’s Cover Story

Svalbard: “I can’t imagine not using the band as a way to express my eternal hell”

20 bands you can’t miss at this weekend’s 2000trees

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