In The Spotlight: Bristol’s Svalbard delivers a post-metal masterpiece on “It’s Hard To Have Hope”
Right along with Conjurer, Employed To Serve, Venom Prison, and Boss Keloid (among dozens of others), Bristolian post-hardcore group Svalbard are really breaking down barriers on their sophomore record, It’s Hard To Have Hope. The band effortlessly ticks off many of the boxes that others in their genre do – influences of post-metal, post-hardcore, black…