IN THIS MOMENT Guitarist Wants Next Studio Album To Be 'Bigger And Better' Than 'Blood'

IN THIS MOMENT guitarist Chris Howorth tells Billboard.com that the band is planning to enter the studio at the end of this month to begin work on the follow-up to 2012's "Blood" for a tentative fall release. The CD will once again be helmed by producer Kevin Churko at his The Hideout Recording Studio in Las Vegas, Nevada. Churko is the Canadian musician, sound engineer, songwriter and record producer who has previously worked with OZZY OSBOURNE, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH and HELLYEAH, among other acts.

"We have a bunch of ideas," Howorth tells Billboard.com, "and the way we did 'Blood' was different than we'd done any album before. We brought ideas and pieces and parts into the studio and wrote each song in the studio, one at a time. All the other albums we had the songs formatted and together already. So we're going to do the same thing again. We're gonna try to replicate the magic of 'Blood' and try to take the style and sound we had for 'Blood' and just do it bigger and better while still keeping true to that same vibe. That's our sound. We feel like we found something and want to stick the flag in the ground on top of that hill."

According to Howorth, IN THIS MOMENT plans to "take a lot more time than we did the last time and maybe build more than one song at a time. It's good when you can get to the point where it's like, 'OK, let's put this aside' and then do other songs and come back and revisit them and keep making them better and better. That'd be a good way to do it."

IN THIS MOMENT's next studio album will be released through an as-yet-undisclosed major label following the expiration of the band's contract with Century Media Records, which released IN THIS MOMENT's first four CDs.

IN THIS MOMENT's "Blood At The Orpheum" concert DVD is included as a bonus on the special edition of "Blood". The reissue came out on January 21 and also included a cover version of the NINE INCH NAILS track "Closer".

The special edition of "Blood" is available in numerous configurations, including CD/DVD, CD/Blu-ray, digital audio and digital video.

The live DVD contains a full 100-minute concert shot in Madison, Wisconsin in May 2013, behind-the-scenes footage and interviews.

"Blood", the band's fourth album, debuted at No. 15 on the Billboard album chart in 2012. The title track was the group's first-ever Top 10 rock radio hit.

"Blood" has sold 222,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.