Spiritbox – Tsunami Sea – Album Review

22nd March 2025 0 By Jon Deaux

Spiritbox has unleashed “Tsunami Sea”, and it’s a bloody hurricane of noise, chaos, and spine-melting brilliance! If you think you’re in for a relaxing little jaunt through melodic metal, think again! This thing hits harder than a frying pan to the face.

It kicks off with “Fata Morgana”, which sounds like a celestial banshee got hold of an electric guitar and decided to ruin your day in the most spectacular way possible. Courtney LaPlante, the band’s howling sorceress, shifts between ethereal singing and full-blown demonic rage like a supernatural pub landlord screaming at closing time. It’s sheer vocal wizardry, that makes lesser mortals wet themselves.

“Black Rainbow”, which is what I imagine would happen if the entire underworld formed a rock band and played through a hurricane. The guitars slice through your ears like a maniac with a chainsaw, the drums could cause small earthquakes, and the bass is so heavy it might bend the space-time continuum and more exhilarating than running naked through a shopping center.

Spiritbox knows how to toy with your delicate, puny emotions. “Perfect Soul” and “Crystal Roses” bring a softer touch, but this is just to lure you into a false sense of security before they toss you off onto the rocks.

There’s “Tsunami Sea”, the title track, which does exactly what it says on the tin, pulls you under, thrashes you about, and spits you out half-drowned. It’s a masterpiece of light and dark, beauty and destruction.

By the time “No Loss, No Love” rolls around, you’ve either transcended reality or been reduced to a twitching heap of sweat and tinnitus. his track isn’t just a banger, it’s a sledgehammer to the skull, blending metalcore fury with futuristic electronic wizardry in a way that makes you want to punch through a brick wall, rebuild it with your bare hands, and then punch through it again.

Tsunami Sea is explosive, ferocious, and utterly, gloriously insane. It’s pure, unfiltered pandemonium, the kind of chaos that would make even a deranged scientist stop and say, “Steady on, old chap!

Spiritbox has outdone themselves, crafting an album that doesn’t just make noise—it makes a bloody scene. If you like your music soul-shaking, brain-melting, and downright dangerous, then this is the album for you.

Score 8/10
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