Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station, In This Moment’s Maria Brink and Chris Howorth discussed the band’s upcoming album “Godmode” (out October 27). According to Brink, the effort is “very visceral.”

Howorth said the following:

“It’s different from all of our other albums in a lot of ways. One way is the fact that instead of getting off of a tour and having, like, three months to get it together, go into the studio and make a new one, we had several years to do it. And we used a different producer — we used Kane Churko instead of his father, Kevin. Kevin has done all of our records except for one. So he’s done six IN THIS MOMENT albums; Kane’s done this newest one. And honestly, working with him brought a whole new level of intensity to the project and the change and the time we had to make it kind of made us a little bit more — I don’t know — powerful and aggressive, and the whole thing has an intensity to it that’s, that’s different for us. Because it was a whole fresh new vibe— the whole thing.”

Brink continued:

“It’s very visceral. I mean, we came out of the pandemic and just the three years and all these building up things in us, so it’s a little darker than we normally maybe tend to be. I like to always kind of have some inspirational moments and things like that, and there’s some of that in there, but it is a lot of purging, kind of a lot of built up, like, things that have… I guess we felt trapped for three years, and just so many, so many things going on and everybody at each other’s throat. So there is a lot of kind of visceral releasing in there, let’s say. It’s heavier. There’s different time signatures than we’ve ever done and a lot new experimental things. And I’m excited for it. I really am. I think people are gonna like it.”

She went on to discuss the progressive elements in the new material:

“I love all that off-time signature stuff. I’m obsessed with how people take two parts, and the one part’s going one way and then this other part comes in, but it really doesn’t go with this part, and then, all of a sudden, they all start going together. And so I kept telling [Chris] I really wanted to start bringing in a lot of this. He loves all that. He’s, like, ‘Hell yeah.’ And we just started creating. It was a really natural flow for us.

We’ve bumped heads before in the past. And IN THIS MOMENT really does wind up always having its sound because of us two collaborating. If it was just me, it’d be very one way. If it was just Chris, it’d be very one way. IN THIS MOMENT is IN THIS MOMENT because of like how we collide. But we were just flowing on this one. I was so impressed with every single thing he was bringing to the table. He was loving what I was bringing to the table. There was no fighting. It was just like — ‘flow like a river,’ we were calling it, ’cause it was beautiful.”

Howorth also added the following when asked if “Godmode” is “more proggy”:

“It definitely is. And heavier and there’s more riffs, kind of, but in a way that works with the song. I think the time that we had to make it, the unintentional time with the pandemic and everything, made it so that it’s just better, because the pressure of having to just come up with a bunch of new stuff on the spot, it made me check out a lot on some of the previous albums on — you know, the feeling of creativity — whereas this one, it all felt more flowy, like she said.”

[via Blabbermouth]