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10-03-2025
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Spiritbox's track-by-track guide to Tsunami Sea
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ever since they blew up online with Holy Roller, Spiritbox have been stepping up as one of metal's most exciting new bands. From collaborations (both on-stage and off) with artists like Architects, Megan Thee Stallion and Jinjer to tours with Bring Me The Horizon and Korn, they've stepped up time and again and now they're ready to present the next step in their artistic vision with new album Tsunami Sea. To celebrate the record's arrival, Hammer sat down with guitarist Mike Stringer and vocalist Courtney LaPlante to offer a track-by-track guide to the record. A rabid opener that immediately plunges us into a world much darker than anything on Eternal Blue. Mike: 'I would describe Fata Morgana as the mission statement of the album. It just comes out swinging, and it is very, very heavy." Three and a half minutes of bleak and mechanical tech metal, the pits aren't going to know what's hit them this summer. Mike: 'I would say it's a continuation of Fata Morgana and probably the heaviest song on the record.' Courtney: 'Black Rainbow is FREAKY!' Calling to mind Architects' Doomsday, this is Spiritbox at their most ethereal and melodic. Courtney: 'It's like a little bit of hopefulness. The first part of the album that has a little bit of hopefulness and yearning in it, and not just anger and sadness.' Evoking Keep Sweet: Pray And Obey, a sordid Netflix documentary about the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, this is the perfect blend of beauty and brutality. Mike: 'It's fun and very catchy. That's one of my favourites…' Courtney: '… but it's extremely bitter. It's a bitter taste in your mouth – a great way of trying to have someone who isn't a woman empathise with what it feels like to be a woman.' Drenched in nightmarish dread, 'You all deserve each other!' is already one of 2025's finest mosh calls. Mike: 'Hater song.' Courtney: 'I hate so many people. People think I'm so positive or, rather, neutral. No! I'm not neutral. I just don't want to be dunking on people that I fucking hate online.' Mike: 'So we made a song about it.' Instantly recognisable as the work of its creators, atmospheric and emotional – the title track is quintessential Spiritbox. Courtney: 'It's the feelings of never being good enough and the sad part is that it's by your own standards of why you will never feel good enough… and sinking down into depression.' Mike: 'I'd say it was the sister song of Eternal Blue.' A bittersweet love letter to their home, indebted to Deftones with a gorgeous, silky chorus. Courtney: 'It's about Vancouver Island. It's the haven with two faces.' Mike: 'This was us adventuring back to our roots in a more proggy direction. It's a wild ride and it's long.' Explosive and offkilter, the 'weird kid' of the album picks up where Eternal Blue's Yellowjacket left off. Mike: 'That would be 'experimental heavy'. It's very close to Holy Roller in a sense, as far as how quick the song is and how relentless it is. It's a wild one.' Rave vibes! This trancey, electronic-heavy track hints at an intriguing future direction. Mike: 'It's an experimental song we've always wanted to make, and it happened very organically, and I'm very proud of that one.' Courtney: 'I think it's a new side of our band.' Spiritbox have made massive walls of sound their calling card, and this track boasts a stonker, with one hell of a breakdown. Mike: 'Ride The Wave is another song that I've always wanted to make. It's very inspired by 28 Days Later instrumentally. It has my favourite chorus on the record.' Courtney: 'This is the first song that I tracked vocals to, and you couldn't feel my sadness and melancholy in the takes that I did. It has a bit of a fun march to it, you can dance a little to it, but it's sad.' Hitting like the breath of life after surfacing from the deep, Tsunami Sea's serene closer shimmers with hope. Courtney: 'We wrote Deep End before Bill passed, but that song now, to me, is my beacon to him."
Yahoo
07-03-2025
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Hope for modern metal: Spiritbox's new album
No longer an insider tip in the metal community, the Canadian band Spiritbox have made a name for themselves beyond the scene. The group was recently nominated for a Grammy for the second time, standing at February's ceremony alongside other nominees such as Metallica, Judas Priest and Gojira. Spiritbox is now releasing their sophomore album, "Tsunami Sea" With their heavy metalcore, peppered with electronic influences and djent riffs, Spiritbox have seen a rapid rise. Their debut album "Eternal Blue" (2021) was a hit with critics and brought the band, which was only established in 2017, legions of new fans. Grammy nominations followed for "Jaded" and "Cellar Door", both singles from the EP "The Fear of Fear" (2023). Spiritbox opened for a number of major artists, such as Ghost and at different festivals, and a European tour in February this year is already sold out. Enter "Tsunami Sea", Spiritbox's second album. In the eleven new songs, the band once again relies on its greatest asset: the extremely impressive and versatile voice of Courtney LaPlante. The 36-year-old manages to switch between crystal-clear singing and bitter screams with apparent ease. And as Spiritbox's live performances show time and time again, she can also call on these registers outside of the recording studio. The first track "Fata Morgana" opens the album with Spiritbox's much-loved combination of harsher and melodic elements. The middle of the album features more melodic songs such as "Keep Sweet" and the title track "Tsunami Sea", before building atmosphere with "A Haven With Two Faces", which is high in both anger and volume. The album's lyrics are as intense and dark as the riffs and melodies. "No Loss, No Love" is about the painful side of love, while "Perfect Soul" depicts a forgotten world where creatures lurk in the darkness. Guitarist Mike Stringer once again worked on the album as a producer. The songs represent the feeling of wanting to make something of your life but "feeling trapped," Stringer told Fuze magazine, pointing to feelings of being stuck in your hometown or not making progress in life. The beauty of lyrics, however, is that everything is open to interpretation. "I feel like we'll always be trying to figure out our identity," the guitarist told Rock Hard magazine. The band recently went through some tough times. They organised a fundraiser for people affected by wildfires in Los Angeles and Southern California after bassist Josh Gilbert lost his house in the fires. On the back of their new album, Spiritbox are now preparing for a North American tour starting in April. They will accompany Linkin Park on part of their European tour this summer.
