Effective period / Period of releases: 2012 - 2023

Members: Ben Thomas (7), Mark Lilley (2), Liam Phelan, Tony James (7), Serena Cherry, Christian Prince (2), Alexander Heffernan, Adam Parrish, Matt Francis (5)

Post-Metal and Post-Black Metal band formed in 2011 from Bristol, United Kingdom.

Signed to Nuclear Blast Records.

You'd be forgiven for struggling to summarise the sound of Svalbard in a few words. Since forming in 2011, the band have had their hands in black metal, post-rock, d-beat, shoegaze, and post-metal. Whilst their music stubbornly refuses to fit neatly into one genre, one word remains a fitting adjective for the British quartet: unique. Svalbard spent their early years playing DIY shows, releasing 3 EPs, and honing their sound, before eventually dropping their debut album One Day All This Will End in 2015. Since then, Svalbard gained the momentum of a runaway freight train, releasing three further albums whilst continuing to refine their vast array of musical influences; drawing from video game soundtracks, black metal, and dream pop all buried within a distorted yet dynamic sound. But they're not just heavy in the musical sense of the word. No one articulates the reality of mental illness as succinctly as Svalbard.