Metal Anarchy

In This Moment have officially confirmed that their new album will be titled “Mother.” The effort was recorded with producer Kevin Churko at The Hideout Recording Studio in Las Vegas, NV and it is tentatively set to be released in August.

Guitarist Chris Howorth said the following about the album during a recent interview with Cutter of Green Bay, Wisconsin radio station Razor 94.7/104.7:

“This is our heaviest record since [2012’s] ‘Blood’… [‘Ritual’] was getting heavier than [2014’s] ‘Black Widow’. ‘Black Widow’ was heavy in its own way, but this one’s just… Now that it’s all done and I’m hearing it as one thing, I’m, like, ‘Damn! This is really heavy.’ So I think a lot of our fans are gonna really like that about it.”

He also added the following about the title:

“It’s ‘Mother’ in the sense of Maria’s [Brink, IN THIS MOMENT singer] a mother, mother Maria, but also Mother Earth. Mother is the key to life.”

He went on to say the group are “still working on the artwork” for the record and that it “will reflect the songs and the stage, and everything will all fit together in a nice little package.”

On another note, Howorth also talked about In This Moment’s new stage show:

“It’s like a village or something come to life. We kind of wanted to make it very theatrical. We’ve always been theatrical; we wanted to take it up a notch. And it’s almost like a little Salem village come to life on stage. We have another dancer with us now. There’s three girls in addition to Maria, so there’s four of them up there now, which is really cool — it adds a whole another dimension to the show. The lighting is really, really cool. The little village lights up and does cool stuff.

“We’re still working on it. We just started this. We had all these ideas while we were working on the record, and we kind of started sketching it out. And everything was just ‘rush, rush, rush’ to get it done, ’cause we literally finished the record and we had two weeks at home before we went to Nashville to start building this production. And we were literally there for two and a half weeks working on the lights, making sure the staging… sending it back to get worked on again. And then the first two shows being festivals, you can’t really do your whole thing, so we’re having to figure out how we’re gonna this work there and then do it at the headlining show. But, thankfully, it’s kind of locked in a little groove. It is a whole new thing. It’s kind of exciting, too, for us to be playing for all of our fans that have seen us so many times and supported us with a brand new thing.”

[via Blabbermouth]