As well as the news that The Acacia Strain will be joining Aborted on their Hell Over Europe #4 tour earlier today, the slowly decaying Deathcore titans have also given us a music video for “One Thousand Painful Stings“, arguably one of the biggest surprises of their current album due to its guest vocal appearance
Spiritbox vocalist Courtney Laplante spoke to Heavy New York to discuss their recent single pairing of “Holy Roller” and “Constance” (the former of which also having a re-imagining with Ryo Kinoshita of Crystal Lake) and what we can expect from a new record from the Canadians. The outpouring of love for their work from the
A fourth new single of the year for the rising stars of the Canadian Progressive Metal scene, Spiritbox have given us “Constance” via Rise Records with a chilling sense of the macabre wrapped in Courtney LaPlante’s lyrics. We can only imagine that Carcosa 8 string merchant Andrew Baena had an advance on this as he
Complete with animated video by DeadEyesArt, a unexpected turn of events has seen Spiritbox have joined forces with of all people Crystal Lake frontman Ryo Kinoshita for a remix of their single “Holy Roller“. No doubt it will be talk of the town before the weekend is out; expect reaction videos to take the internet by
When husband and wife duo guitarist Mike Stringer and vocalist Courtney LaPlante exited stage left from American Metalcore act Iwrestledabearonce in 2016 citing feeling worn down as replacement people in the band, it effectively signaled the end for guitarist Steven Bradley’s project after 8 years. The duo however wouldn’t be out of the game very
Wearing a Prince “Purple Rain” t-shirt, Spiritbox vocalist Courtney LaPlante has recorded this one take, as live vocal performance of the bands recent single “Holy Roller“. We say “as live“. Obviously those vocals are live, it’s just the music that isn’t. How on earth The Acacia Strain managed to pursade her to appear on their
Sitting on the sidelines we’ve found it amazing how a new band with just a few singles out in TrueShot have used lockdown to build a reaction video based YouTube channel and then add to those foundations with a wealth of other content, including an interview series at effortlessly achieve the better part of 7k
The slow release of “Slow Decay” by The Acacia Strain has to go down in history as being one of the most drawn out teases that life could possibly have in store. The Springfield Massachusetts quintet brought out “It Comes In Waves” via Rise Records in December 2019, with rumours circulating like Buzzards that the
On the subject of frontmen releasing covers this weekend, Monuments and Termina vocalist Andy Cizek is joined by multi instrumentalist João Medeiros (Guitars, Bass, Mixing, Programming) for a rendition of “Rule of Nines” by Spiritbox, a band who seem to be flavour of the month and attracting a lot of attention from their contemporaries and
It seems that Canadian Progressive Metallers Spiritbox are very much flavour of the month at the moment with covers of their songs from the likes of Morphide and Christina Rotondo to name but two appearing out of the woodwork in the last few weeks. Following their latest single “Holy Roller“, vocalist Courtney Laplante sat down
