In This Moment's goth-tinged metal can be as beautiful as it is punishing, building soaring, theatrical moments only to tear them asunder with a bone-rattling din. Singer Maria Brink rages over powerful, overdriven riffs and skull-splitting drums, her voice growing from dramatic whispers to guttural screams. While her vocals are the California band's most gripping feature, their adrenaline-injected alt-metal raises it to towering heights, conjuring all manner of cinematic darkness: distorted nu-metal freakouts, chugging screamo-influenced onslaughts, and explosions of steely industrial noise.