Courtney LaPlante sat down with NME to talk about her earlier days and her ‘horrible’ music.
While discussing genres and creating heavy music, she mentioned being younger than the bands around her. “All of us had it happen whether slowly or really fast. At the point in our career where for most bands we’d be about 10 years younger. So I think maybe that’s one of the reasons all of us are a lot more cemented in our identities. We don’t really care if someone thinks rock’s dead. I don’t care. We say, ‘Call me whatever you want as long as you call me.’ I don’t care what genre it is, we all feel it, it’s heavy music.”
The singer continued, “We all love rock music so I think that the next generation any of us will [never] get to the point where there’s any nostalgia about us, but I certainly think that we can get to the point where maybe the next generation’s influenced by us and then they’re the big axe. I see it happening.”
“I think it’s because all of us are more confident in who we are then if we had all gotten a little bit bigger 10 years ago when we were dumb kids. When I was like 18, 19, I was stupid and I sounded horrible and I made horrible music. So I think we all probably feel similar to that and now we’re grown,” she added.
Along with Spiritbox, LaPlante has had two more bands: iwrestledabearonce at the age of 23 and Unicron at 18. But her story started even earlier than that. The frontwoman previously recalled her childhood, around age five, when she first heard an extreme vocal. It came from Cannibal Corpse’s appearance in Jim Carrey’s 1994 film ‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.’
“My mind went, ‘Okay, this guy sounds like a primate of some sort or a gorilla or something from a National Geographic show when they’re talking to each other,'” LaPlante told Loudwire. “‘Ace Ventura’ loves animals, this whole movie is about animals… they’re just an animal band and that’s why he likes them so much because they sound like animals.”
And when it comes to how she started screaming, it wasn’t until she went to practice with her band back then. “How and where did I practice? I only ever did it at band practice. I never could ever fathom like just going in my room and screaming probably until I recorded our little EP in my band I never had heard myself before. So just down in the basement.”
Now LaPlante has been screaming in Spiritbox for eight years, and the band is to go on tour soon. It starts on April 3 in Dallas, Texas, and ends on May 11 in Los Angeles.
