Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask (October 6th 2023) Album

1. Faking It
2. Eternal Spirits
3. Defiance
4. November
5. Lights Out
6. How to Swim Down
7. Be My Tomb
8. Pillar in the Sand
9. To Wilt Beneath The Weight

Let's fucking GO.

 

Band has the best album art.

EDIT: that riff at a minute in hits hard. Love how this band balances the atmosphere and the riffs.

 

Last record is one of my favorite heavy releases of the past few years, very stoked for this one!

I'd love to preorder a copy but looks like they dont have a US shop and shipping is almost as much as the record itself

EDIT: Found them here for North America https://downrightmerch.com/collections/svalbard-the-weight-of-the-mask

 

sick

 

This album is firmly in my AOTY discussions. Been giving it a lot of play since it released.

 

It’s good

 

Yeah big fan of this

 

Fantastic band, all four albums are bangers

 

For anyone interested, I had Serena on my podcast recently to chat about the album.

EP #75 - Serena Cherry (Svalbard / Noctule)

 

How to Swin Down is cool as fuck

 

Reminds me strongly of later period Anathema and I love it so much