WATCH: Metal Group Spiritbox Debuts New Single + Music Video “Holy Roller”
WATCH: Metal Group Spiritbox Debuts New Single + Music Video “Holy Roller”
The unreleased concert headbanger that was halted from being recorded due to Covid-19 has finally been unleashed
Canadian Metal band, Spiritbox, recently released a new song, “Holy Roller”, paired with a Midsommar inspired music video. “Holy Roller” became one of the highlights for the band before COVID-19 being added as an unreleased song as a part of their set before venues and social gatherings turned into Zoom calls and YouTube videos.
Lead vocalist, Courtney LaPlante, spoke about how the song came to be saying, “This song was never intended to be a single. We wrote it in January to be an ‘angry’ pallet cleanser on an otherwise dark, moody atmospheric album. Our mission statement was: ‘let’s make the most ridiculous song that we can.’ When we had the opportunity to tour Europe in March, we decided to put the unfinished song in our set, since we enjoyed it so much. Until our tour was cut short due to the pandemic, it was the highlight of each night.”
The album was scheduled to be recorded in April but unfortunately, due to the pandemic, the band had to postpone all recording sessions. LaPlante continues, “The song that was meant to be a fun deep cut turned into our obsession, and we felt compelled to record it. Once we figured out the best way to track with our producer Dan Braunstein over zoom, in real-time using a direct audio feed, we quickly got to work with him, so we were able to recreate his in-studio quality to the best of our abilities, with him guiding us from his studio in LA. The finished product, ‘Holy Roller’, feels like a roundhouse kick to the face.”
The song drips with heavy lyrics that parallel Christianity and show the duality on both sides of a ‘high roller’ taking their land/garden. LaPlante hones in on her mid-range growl screams towards the end singing, “And when I die, you won’t pray for me, That’s when I learn to cut my ties, Holy Roller sits in the garden we fled, Blood into wine, take my body instead.”
In 2017, Courtney LaPlante and husband, Michael Stringer, released their first Self Titled EP which garnered a cult following. A year later, the duo picked up pop-punk bass player from Living with Lions, Bill Crook, which lead to them partnering with Pale Chord Music to release more projects. Together the group has already over 10 million plays on Spotify and roughly 130,000 followers. The last song they released, “Blessed Be”, has just reached over 1 million streams on Spotify – clearly, there’s something about Spiritbox that simply can’t be pasted up. The band just launched a new Patreon and is planning on releasing their first album together in 2021.
