Spiritbox’s Wacken debut is a Big Deal. Put aside the festival’s reputation as the world’s biggest heavy metal festival and its built-in audience of some 80,000 dedicated metal fans, Wacken has also shown its capacity to crown hot new talent in recent years, footage of Ukrainian metal heroes Jinjer playing an early morning slot in 2019 to an apparently full field helping cement the sense the band had truly ascended around then-new single Pisces.
Granted, Spiritbox already have a leg-up in that department. The sheer viral success of Holy Roller in 2020 catapulted the band to star status almost overnight, and they’ve spent the subsequent four years cementing themselves as the bright new hope for metal’s next gen with their sublime debut album Eternal Blue. Needless to say, their Wacken debut is long overdue.
