This November will mark the ten year anniversary of In This Moment's fifth studio album, Black Widow. The record, generally seen as a positive move in an encouraging new direction for the band, was given a very solid 7/10 score by Metal Hammer's Stephen Hill upon release, with Hill remarking: "It’s slicker and poppier than before – no doubt this is the band’s most commercial record yet – but it suits them. There’s nothing here that will reinvent the wheel for rock music; what there is instead is a bunch of highly polished and beautifully produced, commercially savvy anthems for people who like their music to be as big, bold and brash as the image that In This Moment project."
The album became the band's most successful to date, landing at a hugely impressive number eight on the Billboard 200 and producing two certified Gold singles in the States in the form of Sick Like Me and Big Bad Wolf. It was also a vital album for In This Moment's talismanic frontwoman Maria Brink, who used the writing process for the record to explore different sides of herself and starting to embrace elements of her personality that she had attempted to cast aside previously.
