Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante wants to make history as the first woman to win the Best Metal Performance Grammy.
“I can’t believe it,” the singer told Igor Miranda in a new chat about their Grammy nomination. “I’m so excited. And I was so surprised last year when we were nominated. To be nominated again off the same body of work is such an honor.”
She continued, “But I will say the thing that makes this one different to me is that usually, historically, it’s all legacy bands [that get nominated], the biggest bands in the world, and then maybe one small band — maybe.”
“But this time, instead of just us as the small band, us and Knocked Loose and Poppy, where both of us, two of the five bands are younger bands. And we have Gojira, who had the greatest metal performance of all time at the Olympics as well in there, which is so cool,” LaPlante shared.
The rocker added, “But I’m so inspired that both of us — us and Knocked Loose and Poppy — are nominated, because I’ve never seen that before where two newer bands both got in there. So I think we’re both really excited for each other. And if we don’t win, I would love for them to win, because since this award has ever existed — this award, the first year was when I was born, in 1989.”
“There was one year where Lzzy Hale and Halestorm won when it was the hard rock and metal Grammy [‘Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance’], but no woman has ever won the best metal performance Grammy since it came out in 1989. And I think about that every year,” Courtney went on to explain.
She concluded her words, “I’m almost 36 years old. 36 years, a woman’s never won. And now there’s more chances than ever for a woman to win. So I’m really excited. I hope that we win. I hope that Knocked Loose and Poppy win. Or if Gojira wins, there’s a woman who’s an opera singer on that song. So there’s three out of five chances for that ceiling, that glass ceiling to finally shatter.”
The Best Metal Performance nominees for the 67th Grammy Awards are Metallica, Judas Priest, Gojira, Knocked Loose, and Spiritbox. The awards will be live on CBS and streamed on Paramount+ from Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on February 2, 2025.
Spiritbox is nominated for ‘Cellar Door,’ Gojira for ‘Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça Ira!),’ Judas Priest for ‘Crown of Horns,’ Metallica for ‘Screaming Suicide,’ and Knocked Loose (feat. Poppy) for ‘Suffocate.’
