How Spiritbox's Courtney LaPlante Learned to Scream 

Yeah I think Constance is an instant hit

They already have in my head, yeeeah!

Take my body instead HOLY ROLLER

they already have

Absolutely 💯

Can confirm

Yeah totally!! I get a total Tupac or Biggie vibe from her. She is more G than Ice T.

Can confirm too

Her conversation skills are pretty high

She totally is. Even in I wrestled a bear once, she's like the downest dude, but super gorgeous. Her personality doesn't come from her good looks, it comes from being really cool. I like her humor as well.

I'm a guy, yet have mad respect for her talent. Its not easy to sing scream sing scream, much less do it as seamlessly as she can.

Get on the mic if you already aren't.

i couldn't agree more. when i first started listening to metal, i wanted to learn how to scream, couldn't, and gave up. she inspired me to get back on it and now i've made more progress in months than i ever made a decade ago.

110%!!

Correction: "...for any metal singer" ;-)

Screaming does lower the voice just sayin

@@MonaLisaFaceMusic you can't automatically assume ma-ma-ma Mary doesn't know that, just saying

@@MonaLisaFaceMusic No, it doesn't

@@kmeadows78 yes it absolutely does. Women’s vocal folds are thinner, and screaming correctly is mostly safe as far as nodules are concerned, but can cause them to be thicker. In throat singing cultures, you’ll find it’s usually only men who do that. Their vocal folds are naturally thicker.

@@alexanaya3087 I didn’t assume anything… I was simply adding what I know to be true as a voice instructor. You were the one that assumed I made an assumption 🤷🏼‍♀️

Same for me with Thrash when Powermad sang Slaughterhouse on the Wild at Heart movie. I was like "I've got to learn to play like that". Awesome.

You mean the animal band? Haha

Shut up

Become satan is the answer

I mean he is satan so that's not all that much.

Alex can’t even hold out screams. His range isn’t the best either.

"So my mom had birth and instead of crying I started screaming"

@@tiagofrancisco6955 had this same exact thought so we must be on to something

Yeah that shocked me. I had no idea she had to go through that

Yeah same man. It was really disheartening to know she went through that.

She said it so casually too ☹️. If this still happens then Courtney and Mike need to start kicking people out! Or at least other fans need to intervene if the band does not want to get angry with fans. Or just warn the security guards.

@@StrangeDisposition Exactly, totally agree with you!! I hope this form of behaviour is not tolerated with any other female artist from any genre.

I know it’s pretty obvious to point out, but it really is not important what she is or isn’t: Nobody should be treated that way. No matter what you think of them.

I‘m a voice specialist and I was kinda sad that she is/was using so many bad remedies for her voice… the alcohol, coffee, cough drops and the spray, big no no in my opinion. I just really hope she will always have a healthy voice going on

@@Chiara-zm3sw ohh why is that if you don't mind me asking? that's very interesting

@@onedirectioninfection5756 oh I’m happy if people ask :) even though she said she’d drink only one shot of alcohol, alcohol dries out the tissue surrounding the vocal chords making them more prone to strain. Same goes for the cough drops and the spray; usually cough drops contain menthol which can cause dryness up to irritation of the larynx structures (voice box), same goes for coffee. I don’t know the spray she’s using so I can’t really judge that but I’ve seen people with voice problems use similar sprays because they contain lidocaine or similar numbing fluids which make it feel like the pain or the sore throat that was caused by irritation is gone but usually it’s only hiding the symptoms and causing more strain to the vocal cords. Generally speaking the singing styles used for metal music are, done wrong, very harmful to the voice and it’s hard to tell when singers do it right so I would not be surprised if many metal but also other singers in general have voice problems they don’t really talk about

@@Chiara-zm3sw that's so interesting! it's hilarious how people swear by the cures that are actually making everything worse. theres unfortunately a lot of stories of metal artists hurting their voices for good when they just didn't know better, namely oli sykes of BMTH. i've seen them in concert a few times and you can tell he can't sing as much as he used to since he got surgery in 2019. ronnie radke of FiR has also been canceling a lot of shows these past few years due to vocal strain. it's very sad to see when there's a proper way to scream

@@onedirectioninfection5756 unfortunately I believe that there is no good way to scream. Medically seen any use of the false vocal chords implies major stress to the actual vocal chords. Plus it intensifies wrong vocal use… so the only sustainable way for metal vocal styles is to find good balance. But I’m really sad about it too cuz I love metal

And Blessed Be, and Perennial. And all of it.

Constance is way better.

@@honeymarinade3935 Cringe.

@@Oh_its_Mike yeah dude, incredibly well-written songs made with incredibly well-produced videos as one cohesive emotional piece are so cringe man. emotions, so cringe. totally. imo I agree, Constance is a significantly better song, but they have different emotions they pull at.

@@Tico1818 cringe

It sucks. Being in the audience you always get the drunk guys trying to cop a feel. Even a swift elbow in the face never stops them. I understand lots of shows are a meat fest but goddamn people should keep their hands to themselves.

@@Jin_Raiden I have no idea what concerts yall are going to, but In my many years and 100 or so concerts I've seen maybe 2 occasions of a drunk guy getting inappropriate with a woman. One instance the guy was immediately detained by security, the other incident got taken care of in the mosh pit until an ambulance and security arrived, justice served. Not saying it doesn't happen, but 98% of the concerts I've been to have been a complete contrast to the ones you all are describing. Why would a guy, drunk or not, want to invite a potential incident, risk a fight with someone's boyfriend, risk pit justice, risk arrest and sex offender charge in public in front of hundreds of witnesses? Not to mention on a night out where most people are trying to make it home safe that night? I assure you, it's safe to go to concerts, and i can assure you everyone will keep their hands to themselves

@@nehpetsamenied9068 idk if you are personally a female, and also in my many years and few hundred concerts later, trust me it happens more often than you see. Not every venue has top tier security, not every woman (personally me), don’t go to shows with a bf or male in general as I’ve often gone alone, not every person in the crowd cares, and yes there have been times thankfully that other men became aware and served as a shield or they threatened the person or took care of them but that’s isn’t always the case. Also it happens a lot during sets where everyone is a tad more compacted, they think because everyone is close they can just cop a feel or rub their little boners up on you. And yes I’ve had my fair share of personally serving a few elbows to someone’s face or pushing them in a pit. I’m in the east coast mostly. But you’d be surprised at how often it actually happens in a male dominated space. Also I’d like to clarify it isn’t always drunk guys. There have been plenty of sober ones do it too. Good on your venues though.

@@nehpetsamenied9068 When I still went to Metalcore concerts, I saw this on a fairly regular basis. The last few years my main focus were Prog/Black Metal/Doom Metal concerts, i didn't see that many incidents there. But then again, there weren't that many women in the crowd.^^

@nateafcsouth Yes, I don't doubt it. But I never personally saw one occasion of it happening at a metal concert, maybe because it's a domain dominated by men.

Tatiana from Jinjer is also one of my favorites

@@millerhill92 *Tetiana

It's a lot more complicated than one would think until you do it yourself and find your voice crackling trying to recover. She's on another level with how fluid she can do it and seamlessly swing back and forth. Mad props to her level of talent!

@@akuma9901 no they were right it's Tatiana

She is quite good, yes, but I've heard people say she only ever does a sudden shift, and I'm inclined to agree with that criticism. It's good, but there are vocalists out there that can go from singing to screaming mid-sentence (Marcus from Northlane is a great example) and that skill is very impressive. I reckon she's not far from that ability.

would be interesting. check out miriam granatello II in a band called Nebulae too

Spiritbox outclasses Jinjer on every level. It’s like comparing À la cart chef work to grandma’s home cooking.

agreed

@@TaylorRobinson93 Spiritbox is good, but Tatiana has the better vocal range. low and high

@@TaylorRobinson93 Don't resort to condescending comparisons if you want to credibly get a point across or you might just come across as a desperate fanboy instead, whether there's valid arguments for or against said point. Also the topic was a collaboration, not a contest, so why don't we enjoy both bands for their individual styles?

I seen this as she was saying that lol

Swore she said drop B

And it all sounds the same….takes no talent to scream. Let’s hear her do some nightwish style vocals….

@@renegadetrainer Listen to Floor Jansen and then come back to me

@@nightmarefanatic1819 Already have many times…Floor is unreal. Not like this chick 🤣

@@renegadetrainer no talent to scream? go check out Simone Pluijmers of Cerebral Bore, then send me a vid of you doing exactly her vox. I've been singing for 16 years and can't come close to what she could do at 17.

I don't belong in this debate, but I just wanna be that pleb that mentions Circle Takes The Square and Walls of Jericho, not saying they're like extremely sick vocals or anything, just always admired those two bands with female vocalists growing up. :) Which I'm pretty sure are even completely different genre's than Spiritbox, but worth the mention.

How so? Boobs aren't sexual, right? It's just the same as they would do with a man. Are you not a feminist? Yikes!

I saw them open for adtr and tdwp in like 2008 and they were amazingggggg.

played a show with Protest, love that band! great guys!

Only time I heard that band was from Jared Dines in his "do you know any songs from the band on your shirt" video

I fckn love PTH. EXTREMELY underrated

That gave me chills, Rody is a God.

They’re in my top three with Starset and Ghost

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c2QHC6vVZtY.html

Totally agree. My whole top 5 songs on Spotify wrapped for this year are Spiritbox

@@david93829 same lmao

@@RoswellContinuum okay slow down on that lol

Lol she is decent but nowhere near the level of Tatiana from Jinjer

@@critical4306 😂😂 both of them are not that good lol. Jinjer in general is pretty generic tbh

@@bananaclipper9343 Lol u must be hearing something differen Tatiana has insane vocals the lows she can get shouldnt be possible for a female and then a great singing voice to

@@critical4306 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sunjOzTz30g.html Bruh, completely out of tune clean vocals, and cupping the mic 😂😂😂 yeah her lows are crazy because that mic is so far in her mouth she's choking on it

@@bananaclipper9343 This whole rhetoric about "cupping the mic being wrong'" is just insane. I could not disagree with it more. Yeah, if you're in the studio you shouldn't cup the mic but I've played shows live and cupping the mic when you scream is helpful. Glen Fricker is really promoting that whole don't cup the mic tip and that dude is 1. a bass player 2. a producer 3. not a vocalist. So, I'm glad Courtney said she cups the mic because really you should if it helps you out.

Krysta was also the sweetest! She gave me a huge hug and a free IWABO cd, because I was working the door and didn't get to hit up the merch table.

This deserves way more likes!

Yes!!!

i just noticed that song 3 on their upcoming album is featuring sam carter

@@hunterrr89 Holy s***, you're right! I'm pumped now!

33 and had the same reaction on first listen. Never happened like that before to me

@@sentientcardboarddumpster7900 31 here, same reaction. Never happened something like that with a song, ever.

Very powerful indeed. Another crier is daylily by movements

Same.

Never payed attention to the fact that it was cannibal corpse, long live death metal

Me too. Bro I hadn’t seen that in years jim Carrey is so damn funny. That dance 😂😂

@@aginlikefinewine5861 jim carrey likes cannibal corpse too

This year...? Their EP from two years ago is a masterpiece and arguably their greatest work. They can't do no wrong.

@@juneauz wasn't trying to dog their previous work... I love their earlier releases to!

Dude I was with ya on that now hearing how well these ppl mix cleans in with the normal stuff has been great and more need to do it

Hell yes it was... Both my wife and I were in bands before our kids were born, I'm talking mid-to-late 90's / early 2000s death metal / hardcore and early metalcore bands. My wife sang in a NY-style 90's hardcore band (think Life of Agony). She has smashed more than one dude in the face with a microphone for grabbing at her inappropriately, she's jumped off stage with a flying dropkick in combat boots into a dude's face after watching him grab a girl's crotch and breast while she was crowdsurfing. The scene back then was brutal for women, especially in the genre's that were still entirely male dominated, while girls were breaking into metal in the late 90' (like Karyn Crisis), Hardcore and death metal were still dangerous scenes for the ladies, lot of nasty stuff happened to girls who went to those shows. I'm so glad that things have changed as much as they have, I wouldn't be nearly as terrified if one of my daughters came and told me they were going on tour fronting a metal band today as I would have been 15-20 years ago. Anyway, Courtney reminds me a lot of my wife when she was younger.

Back in the slime ball days under the guise of Christian music in the middle of church lmao

@@mikexxxmilly lol, right?!?!

Lol yup I discovered them and a bunch of bands was during MTVs return of the Rock in 1999 I believe. Lars hosted it and it’s the single most amount of bands I discovered in one day.

I discovered them through RU-vid 4 years ago lol. And since then I discovered a lot of metal bands.

I found them through THPS and ATV Offroad Fury

My cousin introduced me to them

When i heard about soad. I did not know what internet was.

Still, she's just doing it while performing live, not recording in the studio ;)

@@Filip_K_Shapethesound I understand that, honestly it could be a lot worse but is the sacrifice of vocal quality worth the convenience of cupping?

@@zakcritch8706 tons of vocalists cup live. Some vocalists even cup when singing without a mic to get that tone. Just because Glenn doesn't like the sound of cupping doesn't mean its objectively bad tone

@@zakcritch8706 Glen is a producer, a bass player, and most importantly not a vocalist and definitely not a touring vocalist so, from experience, I can say cupping the mic can be very helpful. When everyone is cranked up super loud you don't need to worry about having a perfectly clear tone, you just need to be loud and aggressive.

@@zakcritch8706 Tbh, I really like Glenn, but I wouldn' take his word that something is always black or white - best example is his "no sample" policy, which is plain crazy. I've seen the video about cupping and I understand what he means, however I've heard some vocalists live who were cupping the mic and they sounded sick. She explained it really well why she's cupping the mic and it really makes perfect sense. Btw, there are videos of Spiritbox live and she sounds amazing :)

why do you think she wrestled a bear once ;)

That's a fan base cross over I didn't expect lol

Iwrestledabearonce is an incredible band and i wish they still made music today.. i would definitely check out their stuff.. if you havent already..

he would never. haha.

The simple answer; he didn’t

Spiritbox just released a new EP a few days ago xD

That feeling of interconnection is awesome. When I was screaming I thought I had my own special recipe of hot tea (any kind) with honey and jack Daniel's after. Years later I watched randy blythe breakdown his ritual and it was the same thing minus the liquor now that he's sober. I literally felt like we were the same person.

This to me doesn't really sound like metal ig because she does a lot of screaming it's considered metal

Goals

omg

Her and Howard Jones would be a blessing

I can’t find any tour info? Where’s she gunna be??

PTH ft. Courtney WHEN

FUCK BABYMETAL

@@nomanard1220 wut

Yeah man they are still one of my favorites

Check out her band Spiritbox if you haven't already 👍

Bakersfield?

@@TheAntManChannel yes, Bakersfield yo! 😁