Spiritbox | TheSocial.news

Spiritbox formed in Victoria, British Columbia in 2016 and spent several years building a following through relentless touring and a series of singles that demonstrated an unusual combination of technical metalcore brutality and hook-driven melodic songwriting. Their 2021 debut album Eternal Blue arrived to universal acclaim from the heavy music press and strong commercial performance — a combination that is genuinely rare in modern metal — on the strength of tracks like "Holy Roller," "Hurt You," and "Blessed Be" that showed a band capable of operating in multiple registers without losing intensity in either direction.

Vocalist Courtney LaPlante's range — from extreme screaming to soaring clean vocals — is the band's most distinctive element, but she is supported by a band whose musicianship is equally capable. Spiritbox has toured with some of the biggest names in heavy music and consistently delivered performances that overshadow their supporting-act billing. Joining Evanescence on tour in 2026 positions them alongside an act that helped define what heavy music with a powerful female vocalist can achieve commercially, and the comparison between these two bands' approaches to that same dynamic is one of the more interesting contrasts on any heavy music bill this year.

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