going to see you at the Ace Of Spades in Sacto in October, Ace is an intimate venue(might even see you at the Masonic if S.F), on riff notes, underground artist YCK's rapping is like the sauce you are mentioning, his delivery is like guitar solos you anticipate and relish, one example his "I'm Sick" off his last album Zealot. Thanks again Justin
Really wish people would stop comparing them to Jinjer. Just bc they have female singers who do growls and cleans, doesn’t make them the same. They have totally different styles and that’s great. You can like one without shitting on the other. I enjoy them both and have seen both in concert. Tatiana and Courtney both sounds awesome live!
I personally feel like Courtney's vocals is far superior to Tatiana in Jinjers. I could never get into any of their music because her singing never grew on me.
Tatiana is a beast. Courtney too. But we can't really compare them, I feel Tatiana has really good powerful harsh vocals but I always preferred Courtney singing voice.
Really enjoyed this, as per usual. Not familiar with Spiritbox but will definitely be delving deeper into their catalog. Also, Justin, what the world really needs is a straight up compilation video of all the "AAAAY HOW COMES HE'S..." clips you've done on your channel. Make it happen. Please.
I stumbled on them the same way as Jinjer through RU-vid reactions. The vocalist and guitarist came from a band called Iwrestledabearonce who wanted to start a band to branch out.
Love spiritbox. Had the opportunity to see them live in Australia earlier this year. I’ve been wanting to see them for a very long time, and I was not disappointed. I really hope they return to Australia, their live presence and outstanding and they meld their music so well together. There’s a reason why they’ve been my favourite band since their early days.
Metalcore has come about due to the open mindedness of these musicians, using elements of other genres and Spiritbox is a prime example of this. It would be difficult to choose which Spiritbox video to watch, as they are all very good. They played down the Camden Roundhouse recently and it was great to see a new generation of Metallers, even the dress sense has evolved, with one young girl dressed in all pink, with a Grindcore logo top. One other band has exploded on to the scene is Ankor - Prisoner. That video has gone viral. It is like Euphoric Pop meeting Extreme Metal.
I’d love to hear more of their work. Great envy of women with such vocal capacity. If I could make sounds like that, my kids would be much better behaved!
Funny you should say that! When I really wanted my kids attention, I would go into what my kids called demon speak!😂 they're all grown now and still talk about it!
From a luthier, re metal guitars… Acoustic: They have them they are called a resonator and they have a tinny sound to them Electric: Won't make much difference to the tone other than improve the sustain. It would have great sustain. 99% of tone on a leccy is the pickup, strings and setup
Will be seeing them open for Shinedown and Papa Roach later this month. I'm not a huge fan of atonal screaming but I will keep an open mind. At least they have some melodic bits. My 8 year old daughter will probably love it.
I have an aluminium guitar A tokai Talbo from the 80s/90s and has the longest sustain of any guitar I have ever played ... doesn't impact the electrics at all... its pretty rad actually.
I adore Spiritbox, but they had long been one of those bands that would pop up on SiriusXM now and then and I would forget about them not long after. Jaded really thrust them into the forefront of my mind and I have be on a binge ever since.
It’s funny that you say you haven’t heard of Spiritbox before, they played at Download Festival in 2022 in the 4th stage tent (the crowd for them spilled well outside), I saw them and then went to the second stage for the remainder of Skillet, who were on just before none other than The Darkness… and Steel Panther (the REAL headliners on that Sunday!) Now that you have heard Spiritbox, you should check out Harper… the 12 year old girl who lit up America’s Got Talent with her rendition of Spiritbox’s ‘Holy Roller’. She has now got her own solo career going and has released a couple of singles. She also joined Spiritbox onstage at one of their shows to duet with Courtney.
So have you decided to review this. They're not looking at each other because it's a music video. I got to watch them live. They were definitely looking at each other during certain interval parts.
To get Spiritbox, check out the song “Holy Roller”. Nothing is too heavy for me and basically Carcass is my favorite band. Courtney in the song Holy Roller makes most metal singers sound like posers. Yep. Said it.
You should ask Todd Rundgren about his ank guitar. It was all metal . I played in a band where the guitar player had a Travis Bean guitar. It had a metal neck. We would put a 500 watt light on it before the show to heat up the guitar to keep it in tune.
They got on my radar awhile back because some people in the band used to have another band called "iwrestledabearonce," which is a cheeky, attention-grabbing name.
Still looking for some newish bands to do a chat on? How about Pacifica, Heartworms or Dream Wife? All 3 doing a different, classic style with a modern sound.
The " song " actually lends itself to the mixture of the 2 different vibes . This has been done before but other attempts appear to be more forced whereas this track the vibe changes are almost seamless .
One of my favorite bands of the moment, that i've commented here months ago. The song that push me into them was Holy Roller. That pipes... My God. But them I was pushed to the more melodic songs. BrutaL
Oh, and on the "trust" thing, one of them's Courtney's husband (guitar I think) and the drummer is her brother. Seems like a formula for a dramatic future meltdown, but works for now.
Yes, the guitarist is Courtney’s husband, Mike Stringer. The drummer, Zev Rose, isn’t related to her though. You might be thinking of the fact that the very first band that Courtney was in, Unicron (before she was recruited by iwrestledabearonce) had her brother Jackson LaPlante on guitar.
I saw them live 3 times with another coming up. They are fantastic. They were basically a fully realized act by the time they dropped their debut album, since Mike and Courtney had cut their teeth in Iwrestledabearonce and then spent several years working up to the debut. Both the Rotoscope EP and the upcoming EP with this and The Void show a lot of continuing evolution too.
Same, I saw them on their own tour in Washington this year with After The Burial. They're absolutely amazing. Super sweet people during meet and greet. They give a lot swag away for VIP.
@@ThisOrThat13 aww man, I really wanted to do a meet and greet, but I don’t think they had it at the shows I saw. I went out of my way to look for an add-on. I’m glad they’re actually cool people like they seem.
@@jessewest2894 The only one remotely horror themed is Holy Roller, since the music video is inspired by Midsommar. Just because something is dark, and has gore in the video, doesn't make it horror themed. That's like saying 70% of Metal in general is horror themed when there's only actually a small niche group of bands that are horror themed. Spiritbox are just a Metalcore band, there is no "theme".
@@shona5512I’d throw rule of nines in there too, and I think they more meant like the vibe of it, cus there’s definitly that in rule of nines and belcarra/ bleach bath
Mike, the guitarist, and singer Courtney are married...they are former members of Iwrestledabearonce and have really come into their own with Spiritbox the last few years....intricate, catchy, really good music...
@@NoName-fo7mz No reasoning, no explanation, not even a subtle nuanced suggestion, they just suck?...Ok, I respect that...but I need to know, what exactly did you have to edit?
You should really cover Gojira. Surprised you haven’t given your love for death metal and how big they’ve gotten. Plus, the singer / guitarist looks like your French death metal cousin and his brother is even in the band :)
They are a really good band. Nothing else to say. Catchy music, great musicianship and composing skill. The singing quality is amazing. What more would you want from a band?
@@farrenLP so a bass would be an octave below you… besides.. lower than F#0 starts to leave equipment reproduction range so lower would be a bit pointless
Right now? September 17th, 2021 is when Eternal Blue released - and it was my OBSESSION. First hearing Constance, and then hearing Holy Roller - our ears were given such an incredible delight at the range we heard in just these two opposing tracks alone. Spiritbox, in my humble opinion, found a way to create songs that dance on the border between "keeping it simple" and "punch to the gut." There's something about the way they write their songs that pulls people from metal, and non-metal camps alike. Everything they've done has been enjoyable, and I'm excited to hear the rest of the EP :)
Saw that show as well. Went mainly for Spiritbox, but I've been down the Ghost rabbit hole ever since. Going to see Spiritbox again next year, opening for Architects.
Really love how much you pick up on and appreciate in every track you listen to. You have such a wholesome, interesting perspective. Love this band - worth checking out Blessed Be or Rule of Nines.
I'm only a minute into the video but I'm already gonna say that last chorus gives my goosebumps goosebumps. This song is so Spiritbox. The vocals, the riffs, the ambience. I love it.
Those bass sounds come from multiband compression and multiband distortion, where the upper frequencies are distorted but the lower frequencies are left fairly clean, so the bass can be really growly and have the rich overtones of distortion, without losing low-end punch, depth, and clarity.
The brown outfit on the brown background makes me think of those big camouflaged moths. You need some large shiny sunglasses to go with it, for the full lepidoptera effect.
I do love the way you geek out about guitars and guitar parts in songs. I would think that most people (myself included) would focus on vocals first, especially when listening to a band for the first time. Through you I am learning to appreciate more in music than just the vocals or overall tune. Thanks!
Hi Justin. In memory of my father who passed a few weeks ago I wonder if you could give your thoughts on his favourite band, Hawkwind. Really enjoying the channel, keep up the good work.
Yeah I've seen interviews with her over the years and I think Beyonce is probably her biggest influence. Surprises people but honestly she's always had a popstar vibe to her
I met Spiritbox a few moths ago at Knotfest in Melbourne. Absolutely lovely people, and they frankly killed it on stage. One of my favourite bands out there at the moment
3:02 josh is one of the best bass players in the game IMHO, loved all of his work in As I Lay Dying, I am ecstatic to see this new path forward for him. Initiated friends and friends of friends also speak glowingly of working with him 🤙
For those wondering what a "spirit box" is (if it hasn't already been said here), it's a piece of ghost hunting equipment that people use to try and get spirits/the dead/ghosts/etc to "talk" to them via different electronic means. A lot of them tend to cycle through radio frequencies to see if ghosts/spirits use electronic "context clues" to speak to the listener. Interesting piece of equipment that's pretty regularly used. That's what the band is named after. Not SUPER related to what they do, but it's a cool piece of knowledge.
I have loving them since they started releasing singles in 2017/2018 and while I personally loved their more melodic songs like “Perennial” and “Everything’s Eventual”, I also absolutely loved “Holy Roller”. Eternal Blue was an amazing cd but it took me a few listens unlike their earlier stuff, that had me hooked instantly. Courtney is just incredible and I’m glad I followed her and Mike when they left IWABO!
Man,I'm stuck in the 90's! All of this newer shit seems to follow the same formula. That's a nicer way to say it all sounds the same ,at least to my 47 year old ears.
When I first heard about them I thought they were a gimmicky band so i paid no mind. But after finally checking their stuff out I can definitely say they have talent and grit to put out good work.
Does nothing for me but glad to get exposed to stuff to avoid lol I believe has been getting requested every weekend now where I DJ, what has prompted the resurgence in Bangkok?
Hey Justin, would love this to appear in one of your comments videos for some comic relief. Before your channel, it was the first thing that would come to mind anytime anyone mentioned your band. Back when PTL was riding high, I was in primary school in Dublin. We had this old school yard with these 12 sand-coloured brick pillars that made up the perimeter, with black horizontal bars going between each. At these time, the older guys in the school were what those of us in the year below unaffectionately called 'smelly rockers' due to the abundance of black hoodies with bands such as Slipknot and Offspring and their long hair. However The Darkness had more of a cross cultural appeal after hits like IBIATCL. One day we arrived to school to see that each pillar had been graffitied with an individual letter: T-H-E-D-A-R-K-N-E-S-S. But the true piece de resistance was the final act of also adding "O'Neill is a fanny wart" on the wall, O'Neill being the principal. To this day anytime The Darkness is mentioned in the company of people I went to school with, somebody will chime in that O'Neill was, and probably is, in fact a fanny wart. I thank both you and the 'smelly rockers' for that memory, if it was indeed them*. The culprits were never officially caught. *It was definitely them.
I'm a massive fan of their work. They've been a massive influence on me. Insane musicianship. Definitely check out some of their other stuff. It's more this or more that.
I absolutely adore this band. the most exciting current metal band imo. have seen them three times over the last two years and they are always incredible
i dont think its anything new even pushing the boundary, one minute she sounds like amy lee the next the typical metalcore singer fried vocal. musically they lurch from one thing to another meaning no cohesive quality, deep down they're just popular because it gives people a reason to badger people to react to it and just see thekr shocked reactions 'cOz giRl RoAR tHo' 😳
Sounds real middle of the road, ehh I'm board. OK wiki them, they have one album but 14 videos. I'm going to go listen to Golden "summer" Executive Outcomes. Not sure why I said that, not like it maters, or this Canadian band with the extra stings. they put me to sleep. Oh extra strings, what are they for? Why am I still wondering? oh, words related to shiny, such as: gleaming, glossy, lustrous, polished, slick, and sparkling. Good luck to em
to be honest. i liked then untill recently,the first few eps were great and yeah ok,even the first album. but since the last year they got kinda boring,her dreamy vocals,bunch of effects that drown everything in the mix,and yet again as with almost all of the female fronted bands,the media wants just her in the front. i dont know,banda like Jinjer are still better to me,even though they got compared usually.
Great vid, Justin! As someone new to Spirit Box, their song "Jaded" sounds like an excellent entry point. The blend of metalcore and prog metal elements makes them sound really unique. I love the idea you brought up of the "sauce" the band add to typical metal riffs. The INXS comparison was unexpected but spot-on for emphasizing the distinctiveness of their style. Your review has piqued my interest, and I'm looking forward to diving deeper into Spirit Box's discography!
Yay from Canada my home country I like their sound she is pretty too and her sound is so wow it’s like it doesn’t even come from her the music is soothing too!🥰👌💗🤗😘🙏🏼👌🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
