Maria Brink

Catch singer Maria Brink in the bathtub and you may not recognize her. Onstage, the gorgeous, tattooed and voluptuous frontwoman wails, screams and sweats along with her metal band, In This Moment. But far from the moshing crowds, she gives the rock-chick persona a rest. "I love long baths," she purrs. "I light candles and sing Sarah McLachlan." Serenity is rare for a woman who spends up to 300 days of the year on the road, opening for such monsters of rock as Rob Zombie and Ozzy Osbourne, but she tries. "My dudes are gentlemen," she says of her bandmates. "They give me the back of the bus. I hang curtains and have candles and flowers and all my dresses. It’s my little secret girlie place." Maria doesn't avoid the party scene that rages up front, but she does have one rule: "I don’t let them have girls under 21 on the bus," she says. "But if she's a grown woman who knows what she's doing and wants to get crazy and naked with them, I don't care." The girl can hang; just watch out that she doesn't beat you at your own game. In Las Vegas to record its latest album, The Dream, the band staged a Texas hold 'em tournament. Guess who won. "I’m a competitive woman, and I learn fast," Maria brags. She plans to blow the cash on more of the trademark baby-doll dresses that barely contain her curves as she bounds around the stage. "I like my doll dresses really short. I like feminine but eccentric stuff. I'm having a dress made out of this crazy gold 1980s material I just bought." So do the frocks figure in bedroom role-playing? "No way!" she says, giggling. "You’d get much more special treatment than that."