In this week's edition of female-fronted-metal-bands-that-rock is...In This Moment. They're from Los Angeles and currently going through a lineup change, but the one member you need to know is frontwoman Maria Brink. Take Masha Scream, Americanized and more gothic Alice in Wonderland than folk metal queen, and you've got her. She sings clean vocals and she growls, and it's nothing short of wonderful. In This Moment is a fairly decent "metalcore" band that I discovered overnight, and the track of theirs that stands out after a casual browse of their repertoire is "The Promise."
Maria, according to wikipedia, describes the song as being about: "[...]when you are madly in love with somebody, but you know that you’re dangerous for that person and vice versa. They’re dangerous for you even though you crave them. You want it more than anything, even though you know it will end badly."
That's deep. With guest Adrian Patrick taking the duties of male vocals, you've got a metalcore duet of epic proportions. Mr. Patrick sounds REALLY familiar, and I'm trying to figure out who he sounds like, but that's beside the point. This is beauty, screamed at the top of its lungs. Mr. Patrick and Maria compliment each other in "The Promise," and listen for their scream-off at around three minutes in. You will experience some sort of heart palpitation. This is just epic music. I recommend watching the video as well, or at least parts of it. Ignore everything with the horse. But still, I'm exciting to further explore what In This Moment has out there, and look forward to a reported new album in 2012.
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