IN THIS MOMENT vocalist Maria Brink discusses the band's new album, A Star-Crossed Wasteland, in a new interview with 101 Distribution. An excerpt is available below.

101D.com: You guys recently recorded the new album entitled A Star-Crossed Wasteland. How do you feel about it?

Maria Brink: "I love our new album so much. I think it's a defining album, as far as our sound is concerned. I think in the beginning, we were trying to figure it out and exploring different things, and I think on this album, we kinda found what our sound is. I guess the last album (The Dream) was a lot more bright and [had] a storybook album feel, and this album went to a darker fairytale ... definitely a darker realm."

101D.com: What was your inspiration this time around?

Maria Brink: "A few different things. For me, the way I like to do things ... I love storytelling, but I like to write about things that are super passionate to me because I feel like if I'm not writing about things that I believe in - my personal feelings, [then] you won't really hear the emotion in my voice and to me, that's one of the most important things I can have. So what I did was I wrote about my experiences and kinda this metaphorical story type thing. There is definitely an underlying theme for this whole entire album of this post-apocalyptic wasteland world and 'star-crossed lovers' is obviously where these two people are meant to basically fail and it's not gonna work out, so it's this Star-Crossed Wasteland world. It's a cool theme ... kinda like a western desert feel to the songs about this cowboy on the search in this world. It's super cool, super fun and big metaphors of things I'm going through in my life. I went through a break-up and a broken heart, and a bunch of other stuff, so it's storytelling throughout my entire experiences."

101D: 'The Gun Show' is the first single. Tell me about the video and what was the idea behind releasing that song first?

Maria Brink: "It's kind of a western ranch feel video for sure. I dressed up as a cowgirl and have these cowgirls in the video with me. We had so much fun doing it. It's just, I think it's one of the heaviest songs and we really love it, and its just a fun, awesome, summertime kick ass song. It's pretty brutal because we wanted to come out with a serious bang and our next single would be our radio type single. This one isn't for radio. It's too heavy, but we decided to make an impact, kicking down the door and lighting up the place!"

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A Star-Crossed Wasteland is set for release on July 10th across Europe and the 13th in North America via Nuclear Blast. Check out the artwork for the release at the left (click to enlarge).

A Star-Crossed Wasteland tracklisting:

'The Gunshow'

'Just Drive'

'The Promise'

'Standing Alone'

'A Star-Crossed Wasteland'

'Blazin''

'The Road'

'Iron Army'

'The Last Cowboy'

'World In Flames'