Century Media
2008
The Dream
About This Album
Metalcore, screamo, and hardcore have been very male-dominated; so when In This Moment, a band with a female lead vocalist (Maria Brink), made an abundance of metalcore and screamo moves on their debut album, Beautiful Tragedy, the very fact that they were combining metalcore and screamo elements with female lead vocals made them stand out. But In This Moment decrease the metalcore and screamo elements considerably on their sophomore album, The Dream, which was produced by Kevin Churko and is decidedly more commercial and mainstream-sounding than its predecessor. Churko is hardly someone who has worked with underground bands exclusively; his pop-drenched résumé ranges from Ozzy Osbourne to Britney Spears, Ringo Starr, Lisa Marie Presley, Celine Dion, and Shania Twain. And under Churko's direction, In This Moment receive a stylistic makeover that is somewhere between the melancholy introspection of Evanescence and the 1980s arena rock grandiosity of Pat Benatar and Lita Ford. Occasionally, there are some metalcore and screamo moves on this 2008 release; Brink offers a clean vocals/extreme vocals contrast on "The Great Divide," for example, and gets into some abrasive screaming on that track.
Track List (try tracks 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 10)

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