spiritbox

Wearing a gray hoodie with her signature blue hair resting on her shoulders and sporting minimal makeup against the backdrop of the Vancouver apartment that she shares with husband and guitarist Mike Stringer, Spiritbox vocalist Courtney LaPlante is the picture of comfortable and relaxed after a frenzied month promoting the band’s debut album, Eternal Blue. An emotional debut album in the metal genre, Eternal Blue charted high in multiple categories on the Billboard charts (No. 13 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 in both Hard Rock and Rock) and equally well around the world, which is something that surpassed LaPlante’s expectations. “We have really high expectations, high goals for our band and our secret, scary goals that we would never tell anybody [about] as well,” LaPlante tells SPIN ove...