She’s young, sexy, talented, and … sexy. If there’s something In This Moment lead singer Maria Brink can’t do, we want to know about it. No, really, call us.
-By Rebecca Swanner
Move over, Christina Aguilera—when it comes to MILFiness, even you’ve got nothing on Maria Brink. And hers is such an inspiring tale, too! At 15, Brink was a pregnant high school dropout (stay with us, it gets hotter). Several years later, determined to make it in the music business, Brink drove from upstate New York to Los Angeles with her young son. The effort clearly paid off: Today, Brink is lead howler for rising metal swashbucklers In This Moment. The band recently released its sophomore record, the heavy and sweet slab of vocal shrapnel called The Dream. Funny—after our chat we totally had to pinch ourselves.
We’re suckers for girls with ink, but cheesy tattoos are, well, cheesy. What’s the cheesiest metal tattoo you’d consider getting?
The new one I just got isn’t cheesy, but it’s pretty funny. We’re touring with Five Finger Death Punch and Bury Your Dead, and all the bands got matching tattoos that combined our symbols. It’s a clock with a bear head in it with brass knuckles in its mouth. I literally got offstage in my pink dress and this guy started tattooing my arm. I was sweaty and everything.
That sounds … slippery. Is it true you and your guitarist, Chris Howorth, almost came to blows while working on the first album?
Yeah, because a song would be totally heavy from beginning to end. If a song calls for it, cool, but sometimes I’d want it to have more emotion and not just have it be a grind.
Are you two going to need an intervention, à la Metallica?
No, actually the second album was so smooth. I think touring with Ozzy Osbourne for months and hearing those beautiful, timeless songs made Chris realize what I wanted. It didn’t have to be all intense craziness.
Speaking of crazy—can we just say that your look is crazy sexy?
I feel sexy onstage in my little doll dresses because they pouf out but they’re short and low-cut in the front.
Go on…
Sometimes I like to just wear a tight, cute, black dress or a corset. But I like wearing the girlie corsets with the white fringe and flowers on them, not the Dungeons & Dragons bondage looking ones.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that …
