On Tuesday, Headbangers Blog will premiere the new In This Moment video for “Beautiful Tragedy.” The clip was directed by Robert Hall (Josh Todd) and shot in Santa Clarita, California this spring.
“We are very excited about the upcoming release of our video for ‘Beautiful Tragedy,’” says guitarist Chris Howarth. “This is the only the second video we’ve ever made and we spent a lot more time and money on it. We shot on location in the mountains after a recent forest fire so the whole set is very dark and creepy, with burnt out trees, scorched earth and lots of smoke and ash. While the last video for ‘Prayers’ primarily relied on live performance footage, this clip combines that with some dark, fairy tale type storyline, which is pretty cool.”
In This Moment’s debut album, Beautiful Tragedy, came out March 20.
Until Tuesday, here’s “Prayers”:
And now, here’s the final installment of Howarth’s guest blog from Europe:
Day 18: Tilburg, Netherlands
We were really excited to get to this venue. It’s the first day of the Life of Agony tour and we were told the best fried chicken in the world was right next door. We arrived at about 1 p.m. , everyone is ready to get off the bus, its hot and we all are starving The majority of the men in DevilDriver and In This Moment decided after finding out the fried chicken place wasn’t open yet, that we were finding a McDonald’s, and we weren’t waiting for anyone ([our singer] Maria [Brink] hated me for half the day for leaving her). After we ate, we moved into our dressing room and got our gear situated. Today we are also meeting up with our new tour mates, Drowning Pool and crew, and Life Of Agony and crew. So there is a whole new group of people we will be with for the next week. After a late soundcheck, we rushed to get ready for a pre-show photoshoot with Cindy Frey. Cindy was really fast and the pictures she took looked great! The show itself was very odd. The crowd was really withdrawn, but we still made new fans so it was a good show. After we played, I took a shower and met up with our friend Rudde [Jolie, a guitarist] from Within Temptation. Tilburg is his home town and he came to the show and showed us around the neighborhood a bit. He’s a really great guy and it’s a really neat city. Also, we finally got to eat our fried chicken; it was good but the “best in the world” tag might be pushing it. The bus call was at 12:30 a.m. and we depart for Arhus, Denmark.
Day 19: Arhus, Denmark
We arrive at the venue at 1 p.m. again (our driver Jurgen is pretty good. Crazy, but good). Arhus is a really nice city and we jump off the bus starving again. [Drummer] Jeff [Fabb], [Tour manager Jenny Blue] Miller and I decide we are gonna go find food and after a short walk we find a falafel type place. The food is good so we eat and go back to the venue to get the gear sorted out again (this is an every day thing); we love doing this! As it turns out LOA, and Drowning Pool are very cool people and we get along with everyone on this tour. Tonight’s show was amazing. The crowd really responded to us. We had a blast up there and everyone played great! Jeff stage dove during DevilDriver set, and the kids pretty much dropped him. It was funny as hell, but he totally redeemed himself during the LOA set and did a precision dive, with an extra kick for flair. Its 1 a.m. here, the show is over, there are a lot of drunk people on the bus tonight, I am tired and the bunk sounds good right now.
Day 20: Copenhagen, Denmark
Woke up at the venue in Copenhagen sweating my ass off. It felt like 100 degrees on the upper level of the bus. The venue is a huge place, with a huge stage. It looks like the show tonight’s gonna be fun. We are coming to the end of our run with DevilDriver and it’s sad. We have become such good friends with them and the crew. We will miss everyone. We are at the point that we are counting down the days now. Only four more shows left!!! DevilDriver are also counting the days. It’s funny, our show schedule has the phrase “there’s no place like home” penciled in at the bottom. Life of Agony has been blowing me away every night since we started playing with them. They are such a good band. [Singer] Keith Caputo has been giving us a special shout out every night from the stage. We love them! The show tonight turned out good again. It was packed out and we did well on CD sales. I showered right after the show and hung out on the bus with Dez just chillin’. Eventually, everyone got on the bus and started watching movies, except for a few hardcore partiers. Bus call is 3 a.m. and we head for Hamburg Germany. Static-X is on the show in Hamburg, so we get to meet our Ozzfest mates.
Day 21: Hamburg Germany
I woke up at a German truck stop and had to jump through a few hoops to find a bathroom. No one understands me — ha, ha. We got to the venue about an hour later and just kept on sleeping. I woke up to Jenny (again) telling me we are loading. This is my life: load, play, load, play, load. It never ends, but I am so grateful. It beats public storage any day. This is a great venue, so the show looks like it will be a good one. Every venue we have played on this tour has been totally pro. We are so thankful to DevilDriver and LOA for taking us out with them.
