The Dream (The Ultra Violet Edition)

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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 with the tour, over 60 buses, 30 vans, RVs, semi trucks, cars etc etc….all traveling together and setting up and tearing down every day – it’s a huge production!

Attendance has been insane, every show packed with all kinds of people from metal heads to punk rockers to emo kids and everything in between. It’s a huge mix of people from all walks of life. Most of them are kids under 18, it has been an amazing opportunity for us to reach a brand new audience that have never heard of us before (Thanks Kevin Lyman). We started the tour thinking its an alternative music fest and we have lots of new songs that aren’t just metal that would probably appeal to the Warped Tour audience and yet again we came to realize we had no idea what the Warped Tour audience was. These kids want to move, crowd surf and mosh just like any metal crowd so we adjusted the set list and pulled out heavy songs we haven’t played since touring with MEGADETH in 2007. With so many bands playing the festival and so much stuff going on every day you really have to hustle to get people to stop and watch your band, so throughout the tour we are constantly brainstorming to come up with new ideas for the show and ways to get people to take notice. One of the best things we came up with was to go out into the crowd on the last song and try and get a circle pit going around us, and even better than that….an all girl circle pit…turns out Warped Tour is the perfect place to get a huge all girl circle pit going…..and I gotta say its a pretty cool feeling to stand in the middle of a bunch of girls who are circle pitting around you. Check out this video from our Denver show last week.”

“We still have seven more Warped shows on the West Coast so any girls who wanna mosh come to a show!

Another really cool thing we were reminded of at Warped Tour was how amazing the In This Moment fans are. At every city we played this summer we were greeted by our fans at every show singing along and standing in the front row making us feel welcome, thank you for buying our merch and supporting us. We have real fans that will come see us no matter what we are doing or who we are playing with.You guys are the best! That being said, we are currently planning something really special for our fans this fall! (announcement coming soon).

One last little tidbit of info…we are using the next two months following Warped Tour to start writing music for our next album, we will record the album at the beginning of the year for a summer 2010 release. As a band we’ve been discussing what we want for the sound of the new album and the general consensus is we are all feeling a heavier and darker vibe for this one (that makes me happy)……stay tuned!”

Buy In This Moment’s album The Dream (The Ultra Violet Edition) now!

[via: Bravewords]
[image: ZUMA Press]

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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 MetalInjection.net. They also recapped their Scion Rock Fest experience.
• Hatebreed will be filming the video for their cover of Slayer’s Ghosts Of War from their upcoming cover album, For The Lions. Hatebreed will also be performing at the Revolver Golden Gods Award show.
• In This Moment’s Maria Brink will be on XM/Sirius Radio’s Playboy morning show tomorrow (March 10th, 2009). Maria didn’t pose in a nude pictorial, but she can be seen in this classy picture from Bravewords.com. You can learn more about the Plaboy Morning Show here.

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I feel that there is a need for certain sub-genres to classify metal but at the same time I feel that it has got way out of hand, especially with sub-genre mixing and combinations. I can sympathize with how In This Moment guitarist Chris Howorth is feeling. How many bands get classified as something that they don’t feel they are or want to be? Ollie Herbert doesn’t like All That Remains being called a Metalcore band and Vincent Bennett of The Acacia Strain doesn’t like being called a Deathcore band. Any band that has come out of the Mass area in the last 10 years is bound to be tied to a ‘core type of band. That’s just the way it is I guess.

Chris Howorth recently guest blogged for Headbanger’s Blog and talked about his confusion and disgust for so many sub-genres.

As a kid growing up in the late ’80s and early ’90s, I always loved heavy music. It started with Kiss, Metallica, Motley Crue, Ratt, Bon Jovi, Megadeth, Testament, W.A.S.P., Slayer, AC/DC, Priest, Maiden, Sabbath, Ozzy, Pantera, ect. Basically, I listened to any and all the great rock and metal bands I could. Sonically, I knew some of these bands were different from each other, whether they had louder guitars, more singing, screaming or shouting. And they looked different, too, from the way they dressed and acted. But all these bands were considered metal or hard rock. I don’t know when the need to label every genre or subgenre with all these ridiculous names started, but it has really gotten out of hand.

Read the rest at Headbanger’s Blog.

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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

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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 Chaos & In This Moment

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Inked Magazine Maria Brink Feature

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Revolver Magazines Hottest Chick In Metal III Out Takes.

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Hottest Chicks In Metal II Outtakes: Nee Pic Of Bleeding Through’s Marta

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