The Gun Show

Album: A Star-Crossed Wasteland (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • "The Gun Show" is the first single from In This Moment's third album, A Star-Crossed Wasteland. The song contains screaming by lead vocalist Maria Brink throughout the entire song with no clean vocals, a first for the band.
  • Brink told Alternative Addiction: "'The Gun Show' is about self-respect. It has a theme of a showdown about to get serious."

    Guitarist Chris Howorth added: "It's like a Pantera-type traditional metal song. It's one of the heaviest and most straightforward songs we've ever written. Plus, it has this cool part in the center that is really going to mosh tear pits up across the nation."
  • Brink described the song and video shoot to 101 Distribution: "It's kind of a western ranch feel video for sure. I dressed up as a cowgirl and have these cowgirls in the video with me. We had so much fun doing it. It's just, I think it's one of the heaviest songs and we really love it, and its just a fun, awesome, summertime kick ass song."
  • Six years before this song was released, "the gun show" was a bit in the movie Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy, starring Will Ferrell. "The only way to bag a classy lady is to give her two tickets to the gun show," he says, before taking his shirt off and trying to impress his co-anchor with his biceps curls.
  • With their next album, Blood, In This Moment got very theatrical, accompanying their songs with costumes, dancers, and elaborate sets. "The Gun Show" is one of their most popular songs from before they made this switch. Years later, it got a lot of play on the SiriusXM Octane channel.

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