Love Metal - Him

'Love metal' is the 4th album from Finnish 'goth' tinted band HIM. This really was their breakthrough album, they gained a lot of fans around this time as people suddenly became aware of them through the first single off the album 'buried alive by love', which Bam Margera helped make and a 'Making of the video' show was aired on MTV, which threw them into the public eye. The album was released in the UK on the 14th April 2003, but wasn't released in the States until Early february 2005. As the ever raging "what genre are they" debate raged on, Ville apparently had grown tired of being asked, hence he titled this album 'love metal', which amusingly ...  Read the complete review

HIM (His Infernal Majesty) is a rock band from Finland that formed in 1991. To date the band has released a grand total of six studio albums of which 'Love Metal' was the fourth. The album contains ten tracks and comprises of a grand total of 53 minutes of music. It's a decent album, not hugely memorable and yet enjoyable to listen to nonetheless. Despite the albums misleading name of 'Love Metal', music of the metal genre can definitely not here be found. The music is not particularly hard hitting, 'Love Metal' is however pleasant to listen to and great to relax to. The album begins with 'Buried Alive by Love', the most powerful track on this release I ...  Read the complete review

HIM's fourth album Love Metal has restored my faith somewhat in the Gothic scene of the early 21st century. Being old enough to remember the first stirrings of the that dark musical beast, my definition of what is Gothic and what isn't probably sits at odds with the average Marilyn Manson fan, just as someone who followed, say, The Clash around in the late seventies isn't going to be convinced of the validity of the likes of Sum 41 as punk icons. Although the die-hards from those dry ice shrouded days of the early eighties placed all their faith in the clinical and cold works of the Sisters of Mercy and March Violets, for me there was a side to the scene that summed up ...  Read the complete review

***Intro*** Whilst on the German Exchange a good few months ago I made what I think was a decent swap with my partner, she had the HIM ? Love Metal which she didn?t care for, and for odd reasons I had Justin Timberlake?s album which I despise. So both now happy we leave each other with amongst other souvenirs a new cd each! ***Background Information*** Surprisingly not many fans of HIM even know what the 3 initials stand for!? I can never understand that, well anyway the answer is His Infernal Majesty, so far this year they have released only two songs, both regularly shown on Kerrang, Scuzz and what used to be P-Rock and Mtv2, but never on any ...  Read the complete review

This band have to be one of the best bands on the planet in my opinion.. Not to everyone's taste I must admit but I do love them.. To be honest they have done brilliantly to come from Finland a relatively quiet country until recently, but still on the music front and to achieve a gold status album in America.. Band members are.. Ville Valo Mikko Lindström, aka "Linde" Mikko Paananen, aka "Mige" Janne Puurtinen, aka "Burton" Mika Karppinen, aka "Gas" Since the bad begun in 1991 there have been numerous member that's have come and gone from the band with only Ville Valo. ...  Read the complete review