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❤️ ARCTANGENT 2026 ❤️ SEE YOU THERE!

Our last ever time playing this wonderful festival 🥹

@arctangentfestival #arctangent

Hellfest, 17.06.2023.

Best day ever 💙 Merci beaucoup! @hellfestopenair

#hellfest #hellfest2023 #metalfestival #svalbard

Thank you to everyone who came to see us on our final Japan tour and our final European tour 🖤

We have 2 shows left:

@preparethegroundtoronto in Toronto, Canada in May

@arctangentfestival near Bristol, UK in August

Thank you to everyone who came to see us on our final Japan tour and our final European tour 🖤

We have 2 shows left:

@preparethegroundtoronto in Toronto, Canada in May

@arctangentfestival near Bristol, UK in August

Thank you to everyone who came to see us on our final Japan tour and our final European tour 🖤

We have 2 shows left:

@preparethegroundtoronto in Toronto, Canada in May

@arctangentfestival near Bristol, UK in August

🕯@svalbard x @glazartparis x @headachebooking
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📸@fujifilmfrance #fujifilmx100vi
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#posthardcore #blackgaze #postmetal #svalbard

🕯@svalbard x @glazartparis x @headachebooking
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📸@fujifilmfrance #fujifilmx100vi
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#posthardcore #blackgaze #postmetal #svalbard

🕯@svalbard x @glazartparis x @headachebooking
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📸@fujifilmfrance #fujifilmx100vi
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#posthardcore #blackgaze #postmetal #svalbard

🕯@svalbard x @glazartparis x @headachebooking
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📸@fujifilmfrance #fujifilmx100vi
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#posthardcore #blackgaze #postmetal #svalbard

🕯@svalbard x @glazartparis x @headachebooking
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📸@fujifilmfrance #fujifilmx100vi
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#posthardcore #blackgaze #postmetal #svalbard

🕯@svalbard x @glazartparis x @headachebooking
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📸@fujifilmfrance #fujifilmx100vi
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#posthardcore #blackgaze #postmetal #svalbard

🕯@svalbard x @glazartparis x @headachebooking
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📸@fujifilmfrance #fujifilmx100vi
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#posthardcore #blackgaze #postmetal #svalbard

🕯@svalbard x @glazartparis x @headachebooking
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📸@fujifilmfrance #fujifilmx100vi
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#posthardcore #blackgaze #postmetal #svalbard

🕯@svalbard x @glazartparis x @headachebooking
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📸@fujifilmfrance #fujifilmx100vi
.
#posthardcore #blackgaze #postmetal #svalbard

🕯@svalbard x @glazartparis x @headachebooking
.
📸@fujifilmfrance #fujifilmx100vi
.
#posthardcore #blackgaze #postmetal #svalbard

🕯@svalbard x @glazartparis x @headachebooking
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📸@fujifilmfrance #fujifilmx100vi
.
#posthardcore #blackgaze #postmetal #svalbard

Europe: the last time is now!

Our final European tour starts today in Paris. See you there!

Band photo: @georgiapennyphoto

Europe: the last time is now!

Our final European tour starts today in Paris. See you there!

Band photo: @georgiapennyphoto

Final European Tour May 2026

May 1 - Paris, France
May 2 - Bochum, Germany [SOLD OUT]
May 3 - Zurich, Switzerland
May 4 - Munich, Germany
May 5 - Vienna, Austria
May 6 - Berlin, Germany
May 7 - Copenhagen, Denmark
May 8 - Hamburg, Germany
May 9 - Utrecht, The Netherlands
May 10 - Bruges, Belgium

✨ JAPAN ✨ EUROPE ✨ CANADA

Svalbard Farewell Shows:

April 3 - Tokyo, Japan
April 4 - Osaka, Japan
April 5 - Nagoya, Japan
April 6 - Tokyo, Japan [SOLD OUT]

May 1 - Paris, France
May 2 - Bochum, Germany [SOLD OUT]
May 3 - Zurich, Switzerland
May 4 - Munich, Germany
May 5 - Vienna, Austria
May 6 - Berlin, Germany
May 7 - Copenhagen, Denmark
May 8 - Hamburg, Germany
May 9 - Utrecht, The Netherlands
May 10 - Bruges, Belgium

May 30 - Toronto, Canada at Prepare The Ground Festival

📸 by @jezpennington

🎤🎸🇬🇧 Episode four of HEAVY STORIES will be WHY SVALBARD ARE SPLITTING UP!

Singer/guitarist Serena Cherry sits down for an extended interview about why one of the UK's most forthright and innovative bands are calling it quits. She opens up about the broken touring industry that's impacted not just her and her bandmates, but artists across the board, as well as the creative push-and-pull that prevents them from making more music.

We also chat about the history of the four-piece, why it's so important to take a clear stand against injustice in your lyrics, their plans for their ongoing farewell tour and what to expect when they bow out at Arctangent festival this summer.

The interview drops Monday morning. Until then, follow us for exclusive sneak peeks and check out all current episodes via our link in bio!
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#svalbard #hardcorepunk #heavymetal #metalpodcast #musicianlife

If you're interested in Serena's solo project, follow @noctuleofficial

Exciting announcements coming soon!

FEATURING
◼ SVALBARD ◼
A COLOSSAL WEEKEND 2026

Bristol’s Svalbard have become one of the most vital voices in modern heavy music, a band where rage and vulnerability, beauty and brutality coexist without contradiction. Formed in 2011, they weave post-hardcore, blackgaze, and atmospheric post-metal into a sound that is both urgently political and deeply personal. Across albums including One Day All This Will End (2015, Holy Roar Records) and their latest full-length The Weight of the Mask (2023, Nuclear Blast Records), they explore identity, grief, misogyny, and survival – refusing to look away from the world’s harshness, yet always reaching for light.
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Fronted by Serena Cherry’s unmistakable presence – a voice that flips between raw scream and aching melody – Svalbard channel lived experience into songs that feel like both wound and weapon. Shimmering tremolo guitars collide with crushing low end, and drums surge like a heartbeat in freefall. Their music balances the visceral with the poetic: razor-edged one moment, achingly melodic the next – uniting inner and outer battles into something luminous, defiant, and profoundly human.
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WHAT TO EXPECT
‍A Svalbard show feels like standing in the storm and finding a hand to hold. Expect blistering surges of sound, breath-snatching dynamics, and passages that feel like exhaling after years of holding it in. From the first note, intensity floods the room – sharp, melodic and fiercely human. One moment blast-driven fury; the next, a gaze-lifted swell of hope. Their performance is both rallying and intimate; a place where anger becomes momentum, hurt becomes solidarity, and the room leaves feeling a little lighter, together.

MUSICAL PATH: POST-HARDCORE / BLACKGAZE / POST-METAL

SVALBARD is a part of the ACW 2026 Thursday programme. You can check out other announced Thursday acts, the full lineup, and ticket availability through the link in our bio.

#acolossalweekend #acolossalweekend2026 #acw2026

FEATURING
◼ SVALBARD ◼
A COLOSSAL WEEKEND 2026

Bristol’s Svalbard have become one of the most vital voices in modern heavy music, a band where rage and vulnerability, beauty and brutality coexist without contradiction. Formed in 2011, they weave post-hardcore, blackgaze, and atmospheric post-metal into a sound that is both urgently political and deeply personal. Across albums including One Day All This Will End (2015, Holy Roar Records) and their latest full-length The Weight of the Mask (2023, Nuclear Blast Records), they explore identity, grief, misogyny, and survival – refusing to look away from the world’s harshness, yet always reaching for light.
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Fronted by Serena Cherry’s unmistakable presence – a voice that flips between raw scream and aching melody – Svalbard channel lived experience into songs that feel like both wound and weapon. Shimmering tremolo guitars collide with crushing low end, and drums surge like a heartbeat in freefall. Their music balances the visceral with the poetic: razor-edged one moment, achingly melodic the next – uniting inner and outer battles into something luminous, defiant, and profoundly human.
‍
WHAT TO EXPECT
‍A Svalbard show feels like standing in the storm and finding a hand to hold. Expect blistering surges of sound, breath-snatching dynamics, and passages that feel like exhaling after years of holding it in. From the first note, intensity floods the room – sharp, melodic and fiercely human. One moment blast-driven fury; the next, a gaze-lifted swell of hope. Their performance is both rallying and intimate; a place where anger becomes momentum, hurt becomes solidarity, and the room leaves feeling a little lighter, together.

MUSICAL PATH: POST-HARDCORE / BLACKGAZE / POST-METAL

SVALBARD is a part of the ACW 2026 Thursday programme. You can check out other announced Thursday acts, the full lineup, and ticket availability through the link in our bio.

#acolossalweekend #acolossalweekend2026 #acw2026

FEATURING
◼ SVALBARD ◼
A COLOSSAL WEEKEND 2026

Bristol’s Svalbard have become one of the most vital voices in modern heavy music, a band where rage and vulnerability, beauty and brutality coexist without contradiction. Formed in 2011, they weave post-hardcore, blackgaze, and atmospheric post-metal into a sound that is both urgently political and deeply personal. Across albums including One Day All This Will End (2015, Holy Roar Records) and their latest full-length The Weight of the Mask (2023, Nuclear Blast Records), they explore identity, grief, misogyny, and survival – refusing to look away from the world’s harshness, yet always reaching for light.
‍
Fronted by Serena Cherry’s unmistakable presence – a voice that flips between raw scream and aching melody – Svalbard channel lived experience into songs that feel like both wound and weapon. Shimmering tremolo guitars collide with crushing low end, and drums surge like a heartbeat in freefall. Their music balances the visceral with the poetic: razor-edged one moment, achingly melodic the next – uniting inner and outer battles into something luminous, defiant, and profoundly human.
‍
WHAT TO EXPECT
‍A Svalbard show feels like standing in the storm and finding a hand to hold. Expect blistering surges of sound, breath-snatching dynamics, and passages that feel like exhaling after years of holding it in. From the first note, intensity floods the room – sharp, melodic and fiercely human. One moment blast-driven fury; the next, a gaze-lifted swell of hope. Their performance is both rallying and intimate; a place where anger becomes momentum, hurt becomes solidarity, and the room leaves feeling a little lighter, together.

MUSICAL PATH: POST-HARDCORE / BLACKGAZE / POST-METAL

SVALBARD is a part of the ACW 2026 Thursday programme. You can check out other announced Thursday acts, the full lineup, and ticket availability through the link in our bio.

#acolossalweekend #acolossalweekend2026 #acw2026

Svalbard 02.05. Bochum / LETZTE TICKETS ONLINE 💥

Verpasst auf keinen Fall die letzte Svalbard Show in NRW und sichert euch Tickets bevor es zu spät ist!

🚨 New side project alert 🚨

@afraid_to_die_ featuring Svalbard riff machine @borkborkamdog has dropped their debut EP!

Also featuring ex members of @weareheights @dshs_official and more but sounding a whoooole lot heavier than the sum of their parts.

The EP is available to stream now and vinyl preorders are available via @thecomingstrife