in this moment beautiful tragedy full album download In This Moment: Beautiful Tragedy. Be original! That’s all we ask of today’s young crop of today’s metalcore bands, and considering how many bands continue to emerge from out of nowhere to suddenly garner a million plays on MySpace and score a subsequent record deal, this point cannot be reiterated often enough. Take Southern California-based In This Moment, for example; they know how to make an impression. Musically, they do nothing new, specializing in the same kind of mildly pleasing fusion of hardcore breakdowns and melodic metal riffs and harmonies that every other Killswitch Engage copycat has done, but when singer/screamer Maria Brink steps up to the mic, we take notice. Marketed by label Century Media as a tattooed blonde bombshell, right down to the cleavage-exposing photo on the back of the CD, teenage boys who spend their time drooling over photos of Marta Peterson and Cristina Scabbia will draw to this band like moths to a patio light, but it’s Brink’s voice that quickly becomes the clincher, which exudes enough ferocity and passion to intimidate all her pubescent admirers. Possessing a unique, self-taught singing voice along with a feral, earsplitting scream, Brink comes off as much more than a simple angry young woman on Beautiful Tragedy , her band’s debut album. Unlike other female bellyachers like Otep Shamaya (Otep) and Lacey Mosley (Flyleaf), Brink brings a lot more to the table, her multiple vocal personalities commanding our attention immediately. One second, she’s spewing spoken word poetry and howling in a husky voice à la Patti Smith, the next she’s displaying the passion and range of Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker, the next she’s cooing like a demented Tori Amos, and the next she’s emitting screams so primal, they rival Walls of Jericho’s formidable Candace Kucsulain. It’s an absolutely dominant, charismatic performance, and is the primary reason why Beautiful Tragedy succeeds. For all of Brink’s vocal emoting and lyrical purging, the rest of the band holds up its end of the bargain, presenting a backdrop that, while sounding a bit predictable here and there, displays enough variety to hint at some real musical growth on future albums. Guitarists Chris Howorth and Blake Bunzel keep things interesting when Maria’s not in the foreground, providing sharp dual harmonies, buzz-saw thrash riffs, more subtle touches that brazenly swipe from the more “emo” post-hardcore sound, and even the odd acoustic moment or two. But for all the six-string proficiency, it all boils down to how well Brink sells each track. The album is not without the odd misfire, but the way the singer bares her soul with confidence, refusing to pander to her audience, compels us to let the occasional gaffe slide. “Prayers” explodes out of the gate, Brink altering between clean and rough vocals, often double-tracking with both, her melodies strong enough to make her confessional style of songwriting convincing: “These memories run through my veins / Injecting me with one last kiss, screaming why.” Her performance on “Ashes” is brilliant, her snarl during the verses offset by a rousing chorus, everything building to an enthralling, highly bipolar breakdown. “Daddy’s Falling Angel” might stray a bit too close to rote hardcore (including a mind-numbing one-note breakdown), but Brink rescues the song from the metalcore quagmire by singing a compelling, heart-wrenching lament from the point of view a fatherless girl (“In my dreams last night I saw your face / You held me and washed away my tears / Then I woke to realize you’re gone / I’m drowning in solitude again”). Meanwhile, “Beautiful Tragedy” draws heavily from My Chemical Romance and AFI with its goth-infused punk sound, anchored by the album’s best vocal hook, which also happens to feature Brink’s strongest melodic singing on the disc. It’s enough of a challenge for a singer to perform a song as emotionally raw as “The Legacy of Odio” in any other genre and make it sound sincere, but to hear Brink do so with a metal band is all the more remarkable. Her tribute to a deceased friend takes the simple approach, and pulls no punches during the shockingly majestic chorus (“The time has come for you to fly / Now that you’re free / You will always live in me”), only to completely pull the rug out from under us during the devastating bridge, which has Brink sounding as if she’s choking back tears as she screams, “I see your smiles and love in your sister’s eyes.” A lesser vocal talent would have made such a song sound cloying, but by sparing nothing, Brink wins us over. With a voice and personality so strong, it’s a good bet that In This Moment will easily outlast the metalcore trend. Beautiful Tragedy already has them off to a very assured start. Beautiful Tragedy. Los Angeles' In This Moment had two years in which to hone and perfect their material before getting to work on this, their debut album, but the resulting tunes still impress for containing not a single wasted note or poorly rendered song idea. Beautiful Tragedy's best single is precisely its title track, whose duality of meaning concurrently defines the band's intention to mine the rich rewards afforded by the melodic metalcore template. To the fulfillment of that purpose, vocalist and focal point Maria Brink is of course crucial and inseparable; her fierce screeching providing the necessary counterpoint for her own soaring clean singing, which she alternates so effortlessly that she qualifies as the female foil to metalcore's premiere vocalist Howard Jones. Coincidentally, In This Moment's musical template bears almost disturbing similarities to that of his band, Killswitch Engage, appropriating their same skill for musical contrast (supple lullabies and sublime dual guitar harmonies offset by complex, but meticulously performed riffs and drum patterns) into remarkably sticky tracks like "Ashes," "Daddy's Falling Angel," and "Next Life." So sticky, in fact, that one feels compelled to overlook their obvious debt to KSE's influence when faced with the sheer wealth of instinctive hooks dripping from additional standouts "Prayers," "He Said Eternity," and the string-laden ballad "The Legacy of Odio" (closing acoustic weeper "When the Storm Subsides" is the disc's only superfluous cut). True, with the exception of Brink's anomalous female presence, In This Moment tenders nothing truly original to the state of early-2000s metal on Beautiful Tragedy; but in a genre too often marred by the misuse of volume and aggression over substance, sometimes great songs should be cause enough for celebration. Filter Stream. Hey Fellow-Music Luvers! Thanks Truckloads 4 being friends on MySpace;) Wanted to let y'all know that I have just created a FaceBook Music Page! www.facebook.com/NallyJayROCKS Would really digg your support if you could "like" my page and leave positive comments! Cheers! Keep ROCKIN' ;) Nally-Jay. Whore (Ep) Search Myspace. Your search did not return any results. Please try again. You're now in slide show mode. Hitting < pauses the slideshow and goes back. Hitting > pauses the slideshow and goes forward. SPACEBAR resumes the slideshow. Press ESC to exit. Sign in to Myspace. Use Facebook, Twitter or your email to sign in. Don't have a Myspace account yet? 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Two years ago this band didn�t even exist, and they are currently plying their trade at festivals across the globe, thanks to a combination of dedication, a stunning front-woman, and some damn fine tunes to boot. Prayers documents both the bands most brutal and tuneful sides; Maria�s first vocals utterances being a guttural roar, quickly replaced by her distinctive melodic tones, which continue to flicker throughout this brilliant slice of female fronted hard rock. The swirling guitar riffs are clearly influenced by the abrasive verse vs. huge chorus of the Killswitch Engage school, a lesson from which they benefit greatly; thanks to drummer Jeff Fabb�s ability to replicate some of the tightest double kick work this side of Justin Foley�s metalcore monopoly of the skins. The title track should be a alt-radio hit of the ilk that catapulted Nickelback to fame with the cringe worthy How You Remind Me a few years back. However, given Miss Brink�s desire to let the world know she can roar with rage just as well as she can bring a tear to your eye with the sweetest melodies they may well find themselves confined to the underground a while longer.