THE MOTHER OF ALL EVILS
Celebrating their 15th year of delightfully demented, horror-influenced metal mania, 2020 pretty much belongs to LA quintet In This Moment. Even the current global crisis feels suited to their bold and polarising aesthetic: the universal economy and major mainstream society being progressively buried alive at the hands of a viral infection caused by a bat? When you think about it, that’s pretty f***ing metal.
Anyway, the band are currently riding high on the release of their equally intense and intriguing seventh album, Mother – a career-defining onslaught of harrowing hollers and spine-rattling shred. For founding members Maria Brink (vocals/piano) and Chris Howorth (lead guitar), it’s an especially gratifying release – as Howorth tells us (over the phone, because y’know, social distancing, etcetera), its
