Bands Like Spiritbox: 12 Artists for the Djent-and-Atmosphere Crowd

What you're actually chasing

Spiritbox didn't invent atmospheric metalcore, but they perfected the version everyone now copies: shimmering, ambient calm that drops into a djent riff heavy enough to rearrange your organs, with Courtney LaPlante swinging from an ethereal clean to a demonic low without a seatbelt. "Holy Roller" was the moment the whole scene realized the ceiling had moved.

So "bands like Spiritbox" isn't really about finding more djent. It's about that specific tension — pretty and punishing in the same breath. Below are 12 bands sorted by which side of that tension you love most: the melody, the heaviness, or the atmosphere in between.

Short on time? Start with these three: Bad Omens, Erra, and Loathe.

For the melody and the massive choruses

Bad Omens

The other band that pulled modern metalcore toward pop without gutting the heavy. Noah Sebastian writes choruses that lodge in your skull for weeks, then buries a breakdown underneath so you don't feel guilty about it. Closest peer to Spiritbox's crossover instinct.

Erra

The gold standard for melodic djent. Soaring cleans, mathematically precise riffs, and a sense of melody most heavy bands can't touch. If the pretty half of Spiritbox is what hooks you, Erra lives there full-time.

Currents

Melodic metalcore with the emotional dial cranked and electronic textures woven underneath. Heavier and more direct than Spiritbox, but built on the same principle: catharsis first, technicality second.

Wage War

Florida's masters of the clean-chorus-into-crushing-riff whiplash. Radio-sized hooks bolted to genuinely mean breakdowns — the exact formula Spiritbox fans already can't resist.

For the atmosphere and the dread

Loathe

Deftones worship filtered through shoegaze and sudden violence. Less djent, more fog and menace — if your favorite Spiritbox moments are the ambient builds before the drop, Loathe is a permanent residence there.

Invent Animate

Oceanic, ambient metalcore built entirely on dynamics — long atmospheric climbs that break into crushing payoffs. The most cinematic band on this list.

Silent Planet

Cerebral and literary, with dense atmosphere and vocalist Garrett Russell's spoken-to-screamed intensity. Heavy music for people who read the lyrics twice.

Thornhill

The Australians who turned Deftones-worship into something sultry and cinematic. Heroine is all velvet-and-violence — the mood pick for when Spiritbox's atmospheric side is the whole appeal.

For the powerhouse vocalists and the groove

Jinjer

If you love Courtney's vocal range, Tatiana Shmayluk is the other name you need — a groove-metal force who can croon, rap, and unleash a guttural that shouldn't be physically possible. Different subgenre, same jaw-on-the-floor vocal command.

Holding Absence

Anthemic, emotional post-hardcore that trades breakdowns for genuine catharsis and huge, hopeful choruses. For the softer, heart-on-sleeve corner of the Spiritbox fandom.

Novelists

French progressive metalcore — melodic, technical, and emotionally charged, with the same balance of shine and weight Spiritbox nailed. An underrated deep-dive.

How we picked these

We started from what makes Spiritbox Spiritbox — the djent precision, the ambient atmosphere, and the extraordinary vocal range — and cross-referenced subgenre, scene, and how our community actually hops between these bands on The Band Index. That's why a Ukrainian groove-metal act and a French metalcore band share a list with the American heavyweights: the connection is the sound, not the label.

Frequently asked questions

What band sounds most like Spiritbox? Bad Omens for the crossover, chorus-driven side; Erra for the melodic djent; Loathe for the atmosphere and dread.

Are there underground bands like Spiritbox? Invent Animate, Silent Planet, and Novelists are lower-profile but hit the same atmospheric-and-crushing sweet spot.

What genre is Spiritbox? Broadly modern metalcore with heavy djent, ambient, and pop influences — which is why "just listen to more metalcore" undersells what makes them click.

Where can I discover more bands like this? Explore the metalcore and alternative metal hubs on The Band Index, or vote and follow to shape what rises next. Every band above links to its full profile.