In This Moment’s Maria Brink and Chris Howorth discuss the history of the band, their new album The Dream (The Ultra Violet Edition), touring and their cover of Blondie’s “Call Me”. Check it out below!

In This Moment guitarist Chris Howorth has dropped the following update from the road:
“As I write this update we are 11 days away from the end of Warped Tour 2009 – I am in a hotel room in Boise, ID on one of our last days off for the tour. We went into Warped Tour thinking we knew what to expect (we’ve done two Ozzfest’s and numerous other festivals) but we quickly realized that Warped Tour is a completely different animal. For starters it’s bigger than any other traveling festival out there – we are talking 600 plus people traveling …read more

Here are a few pieces of metal news worth a mention that I don’t feel like writing full articles about.

Bravewords.com reports that The Dong Open Air Festival in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany on July 17th through the 19th, sold in in 4 hours. You can find out what bands are performing at Dong at www.dongopenair.de. I’m sorry, but my juvenile mind chuckles every time I say “Dong Open Air“.
Megadeth will be headlining America’s first Revolver Golden Gods Awards on April 17th in Los Angeles. 
Metal Injection just premiered Rumpelstiltskin Grinder’s new video “Nothing Defeats The Skull” video. Check that out at …read more

If you’ve been following Metal Martyr since it’s birth back in July of 2007, then you may have seen an article I wrote about sub-genres (Part 1 & 2). While my absolutely atrocious typing, spelling and grammar have improved a bit over time (I’m borderline illiterate at times), my views on sub-genres has changed a bit too. A lot of things have changed since then and my outlook on a few things have changed as well.
I feel that there is a need for certain sub-genres to classify metal but at the same time I feel that it has …read more

Today there are some pretty good releases. I ran to the mall this morning to pick up the new Trivium and Amon Amarth. Sampled a little bit of each one and so far no complaints.
Misery Index Released Traitors on Relapse Records today
Amon Amarth released Twilight Of The Thunder God on Metal Blade
Trivium released Shogun on Roadrunner
Bleeding Through released Declaration on Trustkill
In This Moment released The Dream through Century Media
Prosthetic Records released Antagonist’s label debut Exist
Megadeth Anthology: Set The World Afire was released on Capital/EMI
Facedown Records released Call To Preserve’s From Isolation

Ana Wolken from Austin Soundcheck recently interviewed In This Moment’s Maria Brink for an article in InSite Magazine. Swing on over and get a glimpse of Ana’s interview with In This Moment’s Maria Brink.
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For anyone that lives in the Austin Texas area, ride on over to Austin Sound Check and see what Metal names are playing near you. To me it sounds as if Austin is a lot like NC. There are a lot of metal bands, big and small, that play every now and then and when the big names come around you better catch them while you can because you never really know when they will be in your area again…especially with fuel prices. Click on the link below to go to Austin Sound Check.
Keep Austin Metal: The Destro, Within …read more

In This Moment’s Maria Brink is featured in this months Inked magazine. You can read up on her and check out some rather hot photos of her in the link below. You can also check out a digital edition of the magazine.
Inked Magazine Maria Brink Feature
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Revolver Magazine’s Hottest Chick In Metal III out takes has recently posted the out take picture of Kristen Randall from Winds Of Plague. While your there you can check out the out takes of Marta of Bleeding Through, Laura Nichol of Light This City and Maria Brink of In This Moment.
Revolver Magazines Hottest Chick In Metal III Out Takes.
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The new outtake picture for Bleeding Through’s Marta is up at revolvermag.com. You can also see yesterdays picture of Light This City’s Laura Nichol and Maria Brink of In This Moment. Click the link to go straight there.
Hottest Chicks In Metal II Outtakes: Nee Pic Of Bleeding Through’s Marta
Image Source: Revolver Magazine’s Myspace