Jenna Williams at TheScreamQueen.com recently caught up with IN THIS MOMENT. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

Q: How did you guys initially envision the success for (latest album) A Star Crossed Wasteland would be like, before it was even released?

Chris Howorth: "Well, honestly, we always want it to be [successful],. We always look what's going on in the business and were following what's happening with all of these other bands, the charts, and things, so we want to come out good, you know? Every band does. But, we were also realistic and as long as we did better than we did before, we're going to be proud and happy. We're always proud of our music, what we write, so we have that kind of attitude. Like, lets just hope for the best and try to do better than we did the last time. As long as we keep growing, we're climbing the ladder still, we're not slipping and falling down, we're still climbing up. When it came out and it was number 40 [on Billboard Top 200 chart], we were just super-stoked, it sold a couple-thousand more than the last one. In this day and age it's a pretty rare thing to happen too. So, we were just stoked."

Q: How do you feel A Star-Crossed Wasteland has connected to your fans moreso than The Dream or Beautiful Tragedy?

Chris Howorth: "I think it's because we, as over the last three albums, as a group, we've grown and have played a lot of shows in front of a lot of people; we kind of found out who we were and what our audience was and what we were more about. This album tries to blend-- the first album is us just working raw, fresh, kind of just doing more typical type stuff. The second album is us completely, just out in the open, exploring every aspect we can. And then, this album is more of, 'Lets focus in and what are we really?' And put the two things together, which is what we really are, is the melodic and the heavy, and that's why I think it connected more. People liked us for that heavy part and people liked us for the melodic part. So, we're kind of just trying to make all those people happy, and the new people too. It seems to have connected like that."

A Star-Crossed Wasteland, was released on July 10th, 2010 across Europe via Century Media and July 13th, 2010 in North America via Nuclear Blast. The tracklisting is as follows:

'The Gunshow'

'Just Drive'

'The Promise'

'Standing Alone'

'A Star-Crossed Wasteland'

'Blazin''

'The Road'

'Iron Army'

'The Last Cowboy'

'World In Flames'

BW&BK;'s reveiw of the album can be found here.