Beautiful Tragedy by In This Moment

Beautiful Tragedy, the 2007 debut from Los Angeles band In This Moment, came out on Century Media two years after singer Maria Brink and guitarist Chris Howorth started the group, first under the name Dying Star. With Blake Bunzel on guitar, Jesse Landry on bass and Jeff Fabb on drums, it's a heavy, lurching metalcore record where Brink swings from guttural fury to soaring clean melody.

Satellite radio did the heavy lifting in spreading the word. An interview on Sirius's Hard Attack station, where several of the album's songs got played, introduced the band to the metal crowd, and "Prayers" and "Daddy's Falling Angel" went on to plenty of spins there, while the title track, with its cleaner vocals, found a home on the hard rock channel Octane. The Dream followed a year later.

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