And it was about the most hateful thing anyone had ever said to them, they said it in there (the studio). It was my first time doing that whole thing with just the guys. Maria: Well I didn’t know that my producer even recorded that, so he surprised me. Something I found interesting with Into The Darkness is you don’t like listening back to the track but still left it in the album, was it because it had that emotion that you felt needed to be in the album? Maria: Exactly, and there’s a beauty in that.īM: For songs like Out Of Hell and the The Fighter there is a lot of emotion and it’s something you like to have in songs like you said before. We just like let ourselves go and who cares, we’re not keeping ourselves in a box. We will throw a hip hop beat in, I’ll rap, I’ll sing, I’ll be all schizophrenic. It really has just such a broad spectrum and it think it’s very unique and I think it’s us being the bravest we’ve ever been. Maria: I definitely think it’s the most versatile album that we’ve ever done for sure. So if I don’t feel the music, if I can’t feel what I’m signing about then how is anyone else going to feel the music? And to me it’s all about music evoking emotion or making you feel good, or riled up or whatever it is it’s got to be true.īM: Like you said, you are a strong believer in the music having truth but what is it about Black Widow that sets it apart from the previous albums? Maria: Yeah, well you have to, in my opinion I just have to feel it. I’m the person that does all the visionary stuff and I just applied my experiences and I guess my story to this story with the black widow.īM: Do apply your past experience to the music a lot? But I kept going back to this black widow and I kept seeing the big hat and the claws and this whole kind of imagery around it so I just kept going back to it and presented it to Chris (guitar) and the guys and they were really feeling it and they just trust me. Natural Born Sinner which winded up being one of the songs on the record, was one of the names I was thinking of naming the album. Maria: I just kept envisioning the black widow, I started with it, and then I kind of went away from it for a little while and came up with some other names. How did you come up with the concept for this album? We’re just so overwhelmed, I’ve actually got like emotional and almost cried at a few of the shows because they were so awesome.īM: On to the new album and during the making of the previous album Blood you found a sound that really worked well and carried it over onto Black Widow but made it bigger and bolder. It’s all of these crazy sold out shows and the crowds are insane and they’re all dressed up and being a part of the show. We didn’t know what to think, and like you said we haven’t been back in a while, and we can’t believe it. We were so nervous coming this time because it’s our first headliner here. On their first European headlining tour, which has been a long time coming, I sat down with lead singer Maria Brink ahead of their show in Leeds to talk about the new album, the new live show and how she’s learnt not to care any more about what people think or say.īM: You’ve been to Europe a fair few times but this is your first time headlining, how have the shows been so far? The album is dense, diverse and vulnerable all rolled into one genre blending package. Now in 2015 and the release of their fifth studio album Black Widow last year saw the band grow even more. If anything this sparked the band on and their 2012 release Blood became the bands best selling album so far. After the release of the third album two members left the band and their management dropped them but not everything was downhill. For In This Moment it’s been a long journey to get to where they are today, for a band that released their first record in 2007, they’ve certainly gone through some changes.
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