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. 🌀🔥🖤
