And Love Said No... The Best Of Him 1997-2004 - HIM

HIM are in many ways a band of contradictions; since their first days on the music scene back in 1991 to the release of their first album in 1997, 'Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666', the group from Finland have been slated as a number of things. Primarily, people don't know how to define them. Their style - and heaven forbid they read this - is very Gothic in its presentation; His Infernal Majesty, in full, focus their craft around the two themes of love and death, sometimes the two clash within their music, in others, they are separate entities altogether. But then again, there is a much more alternative metal type feel to their branding, away from the dark ...  Read the complete review

This is a really good collection of songs from a great artist. It has all of the best songs and there isn't a bad track on the album. The highlights hae to be "And love said no" and "Join me in death". It is seventeen tracks long and over an hour. The music is best described as love metal and in my opinion nothing sounds like HIM. Each song is good enough to be single and it really is the best of. The music is great but the vocals are what stand out the most. Ville Valo (Vocalist) is a wonderful singer and there is no one like him. He really makes the songs his own and you can really hear the emotion in them. I think that's what makes this album so ...  Read the complete review