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Open The Cages

from Discography 2012​-​2014 by Svalbard

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    Svalbard are a great example of a band who have done things The Right Way. Existing as a band for approximately 4 years before releasing their debut album, Svalbard played the slow and steady game, holding their cards relatively close to their chest. This enabled them to finely hone their craft over a number of 7”s, EPs and split releases, each time improving slightly on their songwriting and recording methodology, allowing themselves to experiment and push their sound in different directions along the way. This plan of attack enabled the band to consistently improve without the stringent spotlight, or pressure thereof, of an album. It also, rightly, seemed to keep people wanting more…

    Remastered in full by Brad Boatright (OFF!, Sleep, Converge) this double LP, 15 song, set contains the bands debut self-titled 7”, ‘Gone Tomorrow’ 10”, ‘Flightless Birds’ 7”, the split LP with Pariso (including collaboration songs) and a Victims cover that appeared on the ‘Cover Buzz’ split 7” with MINE, Let It Die and Pariso. This is everything that Svalbard recorded prior to seminal debut album ‘One Day All This Will End’, collected together in full for the first time, with new, enhanced, sonic punch.

    Looking beyond specifics, this collection provides a fascinating insight into the growth and growth of one of the most unique bands around right now. Combining post-hardcore, crust/d-beat, post-rock and black metal atmospherics and intensity, Svalbard are a genre unto themselves, rather than a bizarre blur of styles. This release only goes to cement that ‘ODATWE’ was no fluke – here are another 15 tracks charting the evolution of one of the best and most fascinating bands today.

    Released in conjunction with Through Love Records (Germany) and Halo of Flies (USA).

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lyrics

Just because it was where someone was born
Doesn't mean that it's where they belong
Just because it was how someone was born
Doesn't mean that it's how they should be
Let anyone change anything
And live however they want to be
Freedom for one, freedom for all
A chance for one, a chance for anyone
A chance to live, to live open and free
Not in the shadows of others hatred
Cast by values so outdated
Not under the threat of violence
Never bullied into silence
Oh how they will try to desolate your spirit
Just as they realise they they cannot break it
Oh how they will try to desolate your spirit
Just as they realise they they cannot break it
What is so threatening about our differences?
What is so threatening about the love in our hearts?
What did they do from the position of privilege
But hijack institutions and sell them back to rich kids?
What did they do from the position of privilege
But maintain oppression and champion ignorance?
What did they do from the position of privilege
But hijack institutions and sell them back to rich kids?
What did they do? What do we say?
Open the cages
Erase the borders
Smash through the ceiling
No confinement for anything

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from Discography 2012​-​2014, released October 28, 2016

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