Oi oi, c’mon butt — ready to be haunted, hypnotised, and absolutely hammered by riffs?
Then step into the spectral sonic séance that is SPIRITBOX — the post-metalcore powerhouse from Canada that came to tear your soul apart… beautifully. 👻🎤💍

This ain’t your average metalcore, mun.
Spiritbox blend spine-chilling ambience, angelic vocals, and demonic growls — then slam it into techy grooves, pop sensibility, and breakdowns that slap like a haunted wardrobe.

Think Deftones meeting Gojira in a haunted chapel built from Meshuggah riffs and Paramore melodies.

👁️ WHO ARE SPIRITBOX?

Genre: Progressive Metalcore / Alt-Metal / Ethereal Djent Dagger
From: Victoria, British Columbia 🇨🇦
Formed: 2017
Known For:

  • Courtney LaPlante’s jaw-dropping vocal shapeshifting
  • Grooves heavy enough to fracture dimensions
  • Dreamlike clean passages shattered by hellfire screams
  • Making ghosts sound *really fking heavy**

They’re modern metal’s most exciting shapeshifters.
One minute you’re floating through dream-pop clouds, the next you’re eating floorboards in the pit.

🎤 THE HAUNTED LINEUP

  • Courtney LaPlante – Vocals / The spectral siren of scream & serenity
  • Mike Stringer – Guitars / Riff conjurer & low-end architect
  • Josh Gilbert – Bass / Former As I Lay Dying, now bringing that low-end doom
  • Zeus (tour/session) – Drums / Thunder machine

Courtney LaPlante is an absolute anomaly.
She can sing like an angel, roar like Beelzebub, and flip between the two without even blinking.
She’s not just a vocalist — she’s an instrument of pure emotion and fury.

💿 DISCOGRAPHY – THE GHOST GROWS LOUDER

👁️ Spiritbox EP (2017)

🎧 The Beauty of Suffering, The Mara Effect
Vibe: Early whispers from the void.
Hints of what was coming. Otherworldly and raw.

👁️ Singles Collection (2019–2020)

🎧 Rule of Nines, Blessed Be, Holy Roller
Vibe: THE HYPE BEGINS.
Holy Roller blew up like a ghost with a chainsaw — filthy, fast, feral.
“Blessed Be” = floaty goth dream-cry metalcore heaven.

🌀 Eternal Blue (2021)

🎧 Circle With Me, Hurt You, Yellowjacket (feat. Sam Carter)
Vibe: Debut album perfection.
Heavy as hell, ethereal as fog on a grave.
Polished but raw, massive but intimate.
Circle With Me became the new anthem for the anxious and unhinged.

💿 Rotoscope EP (2022)

🎧 Rotoscope, Sew Me Up, Hysteria
Vibe: Industrial, eerie, and experimental.
A dance with Deftones and Nine Inch Nails in a digital graveyard.
Some fans were confused. Others got possessed.

🔮 The Fear of Fear EP (2023)

🎧 Cellar Door, Ultraviolet, Jaded
Vibe: Short. Sharp. Soul-crushing.
Bridged their arena-sized ambitions with underground grit.
A promise that more ghosts are coming… with bigger amps.

🎧 THE RIFF REPORT’S ESSENTIAL SPIRITBOX SPELLS

🌀 Circle With Me – Emotional, explosive, iconic.
🧵 Sew Me Up – Hooks for days.
🔥 Holy Roller – Possession by breakdown.
☁️ Blessed Be – Crying in the shower but make it metal.
🚪 Cellar Door – Down-tuned doom-groove with ghost-screams.

🧠 WHY SPIRITBOX MATTER

Because they:

  • Redefined what heavy can sound like in 2020s metal
  • ***Prove you can be vulnerable AND vicious in the same verse
  • Don’t just tick metalcore boxes — they kick them off a cliff
  • ***Are fronted by one of the best vocalists in modern metal — full stop
  • ***Sound just as comfortable headlining Hellfest as they do on an alt-pop Spotify playlist

Spiritbox don’t play to trends — they whisper to spirits and scream into the void.
And somehow, we all hear it.

🎤 LIVE SHOWS – EMOTION, ENERGY, EXORCISM

A Spiritbox gig is:

  • 💨 Atmospheric as hell
  • 🔊 Breakdowns that rupture timelines
  • 🥹 Moments of emotional fragility
  • 🤘 Crowdsurfing one minute, sobbing the next

And Courtney? Flawless. Always.
Like if an opera singer got trapped in Silent Hill with a djent pedalboard.

🎤 FINAL VERDICT FROM THE RIFF REPORT:

***Spiritbox aren’t just “the future of metalcore” — they’re already redefining it.
They’ve built a sonic church from pain, groove, and ambience — and invited every lost soul to sing along.

Want ethereal choruses and face-melting verses?
Want Deftones-style beauty slammed into deathcore brutality?
Want a band that sounds like being haunted feels?

Then light a candle, enter the void, and let Spiritbox possess your playlist.

👁️ The Riff Report spins the sigil, breathes deep, and declares:
SPIRITBOX – GHOSTS WITH GUITARS.
FEAR THE CALM. WORSHIP THE STORM. 🌀🔥🖤