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One Day All This Will End

One Day All This Will End is the debut studio album by British post-hardcore band Svalbard, released on 25 September 2015 through Holy Roar Records. Recorded between March and April 2015 at the Ranch Production House in Southampton with producer Lewis Johns, the album draws influences from post-rock, crust punk and black metal. It lyrics discuss depression, regret, sexism, online identity and social media.

One Day All This Will End
Studio album by
Svalbard
Released25 September 2015
RecordedMarch–April 2015
StudioThe Ranch Production House (Southampton)
Genre
Length33:51
LabelHoly Roar
ProducerLewis Johns
Svalbard chronology
Discography 2012–2014
(2015) 		One Day All This Will End
(2015) 		It's Hard to Have Hope
(2018)
Singles from One Day All This Will End
  1. "Disparity"
    Released: 23 July 2015[1]
  2. "Expect Equal Respect"
    Released: 5 February 2016[2]

One Day All This Will End was well-received by critics, and sold out of its first pressing within days of its release. Svalbard supported the album with tours of Europe and the United Kingdom, alongside performances at the 2016 ArcTanGent and Damnation festivals.

Background and recording

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Svalbard began writing material for their debut album at their practice space in early 2014.[3] Cherry wrote all of the lyrics for One Day All This Will End herself, whilst its music was collaboratively worked on between her, Phelan and Lilley as the band did not have a bassist at the time.[3][4] Cherry said that the songs on One Day All This Will End went "through a really arduous, meticulous process of structuring", where Svalbard would "[try] to find the best way to get from A to B to C and to give a riff the most impact".[3] Songs were discarded if the band were unable to unanimously agree on them or if they were too clunky, a process that led the band to discard 75% of their material and sometimes led to conflict between members.[3][4]

In January 2015, Svalbard were signed to Holy Roar Records by label head Alex Fitzpatrick.[5] The band had previously toured with Pariso, whom Fitzpatrick played guitar in, and collaborated on a split EP released in 2014.[6][7][8] Afterwards, One Day All This Will End was recorded "in bite-size chunks" between March and April 2015 at The Ranch Production House with producer Lewis Johns, who also produced the Pariso / Svalbard EP.[9][10] Cherry felt that recording the album was "a really comfortable experience", and that Johns had a better idea of how to capture Svalbard's reverb-heavy sound in the studio due to his previous experience working with the band.[9] The album was mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege Mastering in May 2015.[10]

Composition and lyrics

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One Day All This Will End is primarily a post-hardcore album that draws influence from post-rock, crust punk and black metal.[11][12][13] Nik Young of Metal Hammer described the album as "Angry but reflective, aggressive but also soothing".[13] It features atmospheric, melodic and intense compositions,[14] heavy use of reverb effects,[12] vocal interplay between co-lead vocalists and guitarists Serena Cherry and Liam Phelan,[13] and clean-sounding production.[15]

"Perspective" is about how "Disintegration is inevitable [...] so appreciate where you are now and what you’ve got."[3] The song also criticizes the "strange association between integrity and misery" formed by nu metal.[16] "Disparity" draws upon Erving Goffman's ideas about impression management to discuss the gap between "the self within and the preferred self", in reality and on social media.[16][4] "The Vanishing Point" is about Svalbard's ex-bandmembers, and the disappointment stemming from the band's numerous line-up changes.[3][16] "Expect Equal Respect" discusses sexism in music, and how the term "female-fronted" reduces musicians to the novelty of their gender instead of focusing on or judging them for their abilities.[14][16] The song was written as a reaction to an question from an email interview with a blog, asking Cherry if she thought that Svalbard's status as a "female fronted" band in the hardcore scene was "a hindrance or a setback".[9]

According to Cherry, "Unrequited" is about "weakness and regret", and "The kind of words where you never know if they would have been better left unsaid".[16] "The Damage Done" discusses the "genome lag" between humanity's primitive instincts and ever-progressing lifestyles.[9][16] The song was originally written and recorded for Svalbard's eponymous debut EP in 2012; the band decdided to re-record the song as it was a fixture of the band's live setlists and because they felt its themes were still relevant.[9] According to Cherry, "Unnatural Light" describes social media as a "new opium of the people", in the sense that it provides the illusion of action against injustices in the world.[9][11][16] The album's final track, "Lily", is a post-rock instrumental[15] named after a cat Cherry rescued from abandonment.[16]

Release and promotion

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One Day All This Will End was released through Holy Roar Records on 25 September 2015.[17][18] The album's release was handled by Halo of Flies Records in the United States, and by Through Love Records in Germany.[2] The album's first pressing through Holy Roar (limited to 1000 CDs and 495 vinyl LPs)[17] sold out within days of its release.[11][19] In April 2022, it was reissued through Church Road Records.[20] In June 2022, Nuclear Blast Records acquired the worldwide rights to the album after Svalbard signed to the label.[21]

In early March 2015, Svalbard toured the United Kingdom supporting Funeral for a Friend;[22] in May, they toured Europe with We Never Learned to Live,[11][23] before performing at the Temples Festival in Bristol.[24][25] The band played a one-off show with Celeste in August,[26] before performing various weekend shows across the United Kingdom from September to December 2015.[11] From 20 May to 2 June 2016, the band toured Europe with Meek Is Murder.[27] In August, the band performed at ArcTanGent in August 2016,[28] and on the Terrorizer stage of the Damnation Festival in Leeds in November.[29]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Drowned in Sound7/10[15]
Metal.de7/10[12]
Metal Hammer     [13]
Ox-Fanzine     [30]
Rock Sound8/10[31]
Terrorizer9/10[32]

One Day All This Will End was well-received by critics. Drowned in Sound's Benjamin Bland commented that although Svalbard's post-hardcore sound was "archetypal", the album's production and musical "nods to the purely visceral nature of hardcore at its best" separated the band from many of their stylistic contemporaries.[15] Nik Young of Metal Hammer similarly praised its cohesive sound and Svalbard's ability to "morph opposing styles together to craft something fresh" without "being gratingly artistic".[13] Martin Schmidt of Ox-Fanzine praised the "consistent and always entertaining" blend of genres throughout the album, and for "always being able to touch and equally destroy and build with its emotional power."[30] Writing for Metal.de, Herr Møller positively noted the album's "emotional" and "very haunting" delivery, particularly in regards to its vocals, but found its later tracks weak.[12]

One Day All This Will End placed at number 45 on Metal Hammer's year-end "Albums of 2015" list.[33]

Track listing

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All lyrics are written by Serena Cherry; all music is composed by Svalbard.[10]

No.TitleLength
1."Perspective"5:06
2."Disparity"4:30
3."The Vanishing Point"4:01
4."Expect Equal Respect"4:03
5."Unrequited"4:28
6."The Damage Done"4:02
7."Unnatural Light"4:17
8."Lily"3:21
Total length:33:51

Personnel

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Personnel per liner notes.[10][34]

References

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