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Matthew Brue (Vocalist/Multi-Instrumentalist/Producer) & David Butler (Engineer/Multi-Instrumentalist/Producer) released their debut album, ‘Loner,’ via RCA Records in May of 2017. The genre-bending & eclectically dark duo from Austin, TX quickly landed a global radio hit with their first single ‘Middle Fingers’ debuting on Conan O’Brien’s late night show & reaching #9 on the Billboard Alternative Charts. As a result of their early success, the duo has since released five full length album’s garnering more than seven #1’s on Sirius X.M. Alt-Nation with songs like ‘I See You,’ ‘Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea,’ & ‘Underground.’ MISSIO has partnered with global commercial brands such as Shiseido, Summer’s Eve, Netflix & Armani, celebrated over 1 billion global streams, & awarded two R.I.A.A. certified Gold Record for ‘Everybody Gets High' & 'Twisted.'

MISSIO has toured both Domestically & Internationally headlining in Europe, Russia, and Mexico playing festivals such as Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, Rock For People, Firefly, Hangout, Corona Capital, Download Fest etc. They have toured with MUSE, 30 Seconds To Mars, Yungblud, K.Flay, Nothing But Thieves, & many more.

Nature counts the black widow spider amongst its most fascinating and dangerous anomalies. The female arachnid often devours its mate after copulation. It's both a delicate and dangerous predator. In This Moment isn't all that different from this enigmatic beast. Led by frontwoman Maria Brink, the Los Angeles hard rock outfit strikes with a seductive metallic bite on their aptly titled fifth full-length album, Black Widow.

"Black Widow is a metaphor for this innocent young girl who gets infected with life, traumas, experiences, and the balance of light and darkness," explains Maria. "She becomes this poised and powerful creature. That's the album."

"We went into this with the title Black Widow," says lead guitarist Chris Howorth. "It fits the image of Maria as this powerful heroine. If you think of the boys in the audience watching our stage show, she's like the black widow pulling them all in."

The record, the first for the band on Atlantic Records, picks up where the group's 2012 breakthrough, Blood, left off. That album saw In This Moment debut at #15 on the Billboard Top 200, their highest chart position to date, and eventually sold over 250,000 units in the U.S. alone. It also spawned the single "Blood," which rose to #9 on the Mainstream Rock and Active Rock Songs charts. A sold out headline tour, HELLPOP, followed, as well as appearances at the Uproar Festival and Rock On The Range, and jaunts with Shinedown and Papa Roach. After the whirlwind of Blood subsided, Maria and Chris retreated to Las Vegas in February 2014 to begin working on what would become Black Widow with longtime producer Kevin Churko [Ozzy Osbourne, Five Finger Death Punch].

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Vocals, guitar, bass, programming, some pseudo hand drumming, and experimentation with various other instruments and objects... 
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American-Canadian Grace Scheele is an award-winning contemporary harpist, composer, curator, and improviser. www.gracescheele.com

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