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"It was a beautiful scar on the metal world." How Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and the rest took nu metal from hated subgenre to the biggest thing on Planet Earth

Nu metal may have been shunned by metal elitists, but it took heavy music to the masses like never before, or since

Metal Hammer

"The reality of being a musician means you need to have very rich parents, the willingness to ruin yourself financially, or a label with very deep pockets." Why that hotly-tipped band you love might not be touring this year

Rising Canadian prog duo Crown Lands won't be touring the UK and Europe this year – because they've done the math

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"We want it to happen just as much as you do." Resurrected prog metal heroes Nevermore reveal why they won't play the USA in 2026

Band cite work permit issues as the reason for withdrawal from ProgPower USA bill

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“You’re doing all the work, selling your own merch, but they’ll still come at the end of the night and take 25 percent. For what?!” UK metal band on the cusp of breaking up detail the ludicrous costs of touring in the 2020s

From carnets to bus hire and visa applications that may be declined anyway, Svalbard’s Serena Cherry sounds off on the mounting costs that are making touring unsustainable

Metal Hammer

“Think of it as the metal version of Goodbye by the Spice Girls!” Leading lights of the UK underground Svalbard have just released their final song

The four-piece’s farewell UK tour kicks off on Wednesday

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“The more successful we become, the lonelier it gets”: Why your favourite British metal bands are breaking up

UK metal beloveds Svalbard, Orange Goblin and Ithaca will all split in the coming months. Their reasons why hint at a grim future for the country’s alternative artists.

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"I'm working on a power metal record." Svalbard's Serena Cherry on videogames, picking up the guitar and dream projects

Which Pokémon would her bands be? How did she learn guitar? Why doesn't she play more power metal? These are the questions you asked Svalbard's Serena Cherry

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“We want to finish on a decisive high, having released four albums that we are 100 percent proud of”: UK post-metal dynamos Svalbard to break up in 2026, announce farewell tour

Talking exclusively to Metal Hammer, singer/guitarist Serena Cherry describes her band’s split as a creative decision and says they have one song left to release

Metal Hammer

I front a metal band and this is what it's like having hundreds of phones pointed at you every night on stage (spoiler: it's really weird)

Serena Cherry, frontwoman of British extreme metallers Svalbard, opens up on the experience of having your every move documented on stage

Metal Hammer

“I learned the hard way many years ago that daisy chains arenotreliable!” Serena Cherry shares her pedalboard secrets and admits she’d feel naked without “big, cavernous reverb”

The Svalbard shredder has learned to embrace minimalism but is damned if she will be decommissioning her RV-5 any time soon

Guitar World

The 15 best new metal songs you need to hear this week

Within Temptation, Wadruna and Orange Goblin are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Metal Hammer

"You cannot underestimate the impact of seeing a woman blaze a trail right before your eyes." Why Arch Enemy’s Angela Gossow means so much to me – and to women in the metal scene

Svalbard singer/guitarist Serena Cherry writes about the impact Arch Enemy’s formidable ex-vocalist had on her life

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The 10 best metalcore albums of 2023

From the uber-melodic Code Orange to the evocative Svalbard, metalcore has been brilliantly diverse in 2023

Metal Hammer

"They’re both extreme, and they can be intimidating to an outsider." Svalbard made one of 2023's most personal and emotional metal albums. It was at least partly inspired by rollercoasters

Hammer spent the day riding the rails at Thorpe Park with self-confessed rollercoaster fanatic Serena Cherry to uncover the truth behind Svalbard's new album Weight Of The Mask

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“A lot of solos in metal definitely have a formula... To me, a solo really hits home when you don’t hear the magic coming”: How Svalbard’s Serena Cherry is tearing up the metal guitar playbook

Told she was playing guitar “wrong”, Cherry instead took it as permission to embrace the unorthodox and chase metal guitar sounds from the primal to the orchestral

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‘I’m at one of the lowest points of my life’: Svalbard’s Serena Cherry on confronting depression with metal

The Bristol band are one of the hottest in the heavy music scene, but for their frontwoman, success can be a burden. She explains why she speaks about her pain so plainly

Metal Hammer

"It was a beautiful scar on the metal world." How Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and the rest took nu metal from hated subgenre to the biggest thing on Planet Earth

Nu metal may have been shunned by metal elitists, but it took heavy music to the masses like never before, or since

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