The Examiner recently caught up with IN THIS MOMENT guitarist Chris Howorth. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

Q: How has your partnership with Maria (Brink/vocals) developed over the years?

Howorth: "At the beginning, I was a metal guy who wanted to be in a metal band and Maria was a more diverse singer. We were very different and we still are, but I was a bit more close-minded at first. On the first album she went more in my direction, on the second album I went more in her direction, on the third album we met in the middle a little bit more, and now we’re meeting even more in the middle. She’s like my sister. We can annoy each other beyond belief. I push all her buttons and drive her nuts and she drives me nuts, but at the end of the day, it’s great."

Q: Do you ever step back from the band and grasp the breadth of what you have accomplished so far?

Howorth: "When you're in it so deeply, like we are, sometimes you lose track of that stuff. The only way to do it is to step outside of it, if you can do that, and look at the whole thing. When we’re touring, if we have a bad show or we feel it’s not the right tour for us, it can feel like, 'What are we doing? Are we falling apart?' You’re so deep inside of it. But when you step outside of it, you meet a new fan who tells you how much you mean to them, or how big the band is, or other bands tell you that. Otherwise, you don’t really know. So it kind of depends on where we are in our heads as to how we view the whole thing. We know we’ve been very blessed to do a lot of amazing things. Our band is established to a point where a lot of people in the metal and hard rock worlds know our name, but in the grand scheme of things we’re a blip on the radar. We want to break through that. So it’s hard to gauge. It depends on who we talk to and how we view ourselves."

Click here for the complete interview.

After touring North America relentlessly, In This Moment will head back to Europe to support their latest album Blood live First they will support HALESTORM in the UK in March before coming back for summer festivals.

Dates supporting Halestorm:

March

6 - Norwich, UK - Waterfront
7 - Oxford, UK - O2 Academy
8 - London, UK - Electric Ballroom
10 - Cardiff , UK- Solus
11 - Nottingham, UK - Rock City

European summer festivals:

June

14-16 - Donington Park, UK - Download

28-30 - Dessel, Belgium - Graspop

Get your dose of 'Blood' by watching the video below: