In 2005 the Finnish Alternative Metal band HIM released their fifth album entitled "Dark Light". It finds that they came with the record after breaking through in 2003 with "Love Metal" and having dropped a 'greatest hits' release in the time between to give their new global fan base an idea of just what they have accomplished since debuting in 1997. 1. "Vampire Heart" They get things underway in dramatic fashion by throwing out a raw tune that has them showing how well they are able to incorporate the general Metal sounds into their dark, alternative style as you get Ville Vallo (their vocalist) singing a chilling ...  Read the complete review

A new tasteful direction for HIM ~Intro~ This is HIM's 6th album since they first started out in Helsinki, Finland in 1995. They made the big time in 1997.They are unlike any other band that I've heard, not quite metal, not quite Goth, not quite Rock. They are the only band that have thier own genre; Love Metal. It's not only music for goths and rockers, recently there was a dance remix of one of HIM's old songs Join Me. The words reach out to all sorts of people wether they like dance, R'n'B, hiphop, pop, or classical. I've known people who like all these types of music go out and buy music by His Infernal Majesty or in USA Her Evil Regime. ...  Read the complete review

Dark Light, composed and written by HIM and Ville Valo in particular. The album isnt what we have come to expect from HIM, but is still the music that HIM fans fell in love with when they had the first taste of it. Its a new direction which many fans didnt agree with, but wasnt a significant turn in direction where fans actually left the side of HIM because they didnt like it. There is a song for everyone on the CD, because the music goes from fast, hard, heavy music, to a slow acoustic ballad. The lyrics have love and death interwined with a hard worked riff that will stick in your head until the day your die. The lead singer, ...  Read the complete review