IN THIS MOMENT guitarist Chris Howorth is featured in a new interview with Bob Zerull at Zoiks! Online. An excerpt is available below:

Z!: First I want to say congratulations on the new album Blood. For how good it is and second for how well it’s doing. At what point in the process did you know you were onto something special?

CH: "Honestly it was kind of weird, because I don’t know how much you know, but right before we went in to do the album…three months before, our manager dropped us and then a month later two of the guys in the band quit. We were like what are we going to do? Really questioning ourselves, Maria and I. But we rallied; we were trying to find new management while we were writing songs in my bedroom, trying to write some stuff that would be awesome. At a certain point our friend Kevin (Churko), who did the album with us, said…and this was like three or four months before we went in to do the record, he was like, ‘come into the studio for a week, we’re going to do a couple songs and this will help us show everybody what we’re doing,’ because he believed in the band. Pretty much after we did Blood we were like 'What the hell is this?', we’d never done anything like it. We thought that it was something special. Once we sent it out all these managers that we’d been talking to…they didn’t necessarily want to manage us they were just like, ‘We’ll see how it goes.’ Once they heard the song they were like, ‘We want to manage you guys.’ We finally picked our manager that way. Once that happened we realized that this was special. Everything that happened to us with the management leaving us and the guys leaving was meant to be, because it opened us up to make the album that was made and to be where we are now. From that point on it was like this is going to be our best album ever."

Z!: That was going to be my next question, when the two guys left, did you know you had it in you? How close to not continuing on where you?

CH: "I remember when I was on the phone with Jeff (Fabb) I had a moment where I was like, ‘I can’t do this anymore.’ I’ve been that guy in the band since I was the kid, finding people and firing people and trying to make it. No matter what band I was in, I was that guy. It was a serious roller coaster of emotions. One minute you’re on top of the world, the next minute you’re depressed. It was maybe like forty minutes of tears and what are we gonna do, then it was like 'Fuck This.' I’m not going to lie and say that we felt 100% from that moment on, because we definitely had our ups and downs. Once we heard the songs going and got the new management we started to realize that this is the best thing that could have happened to us and we have to forge forward."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

In This Moment's new album, Blood, was released on August 14th and was produced by Kevin Churko (OZZY OSBOURNE, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH). The album is the band's fourth for longtime label Century Media Records.

Blood tracklisting:

'Rise With Me'

'Blood'

'Adrenalize'

'Whore'

'You're Gonna Listen'

'It Is Written'

'Burn'

'Scarlet'

'Aries'

'From The Ashes'

'Beast Within'

'Comanche'

'The Blood Legion'

'11_11'

In This Moment recently updated their tour schedule for the US, found below. More details will be revealed soon:

October

19 - Speaking Rock Entertainment Center - El Paso, TX
26 - Tinker Field - Orlando, FL
27 - 1-800-ASK-GARY Ampitheater - Tampa, FL
28 - The Masquerade - Atlanta, GA
30 - The Riverside Warehouse - Shreveport, LA
31 - The Station - Broussard, LA

November

2 - The Lucky Mule - Abilene, TX
3 - Click's - Tyler, TX
4 - Revolution Music Room - Little Rock, AR
6 - George's Majestic Lounge - Fayetteville, AR
20 - Vinyl at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino - Las Vegas, NV
27 - ShipRocked Cruise - Fort Lauderdale, FL