“Ville Valo and his gloomy crew return to their metallic roots with LOVE METAL, the band’s heaviest offering since their full-length debut. Launching full force into the propulsive “Buried Alive By Love,” HIM explores dirgy, Sabbath-style rock read full review (“Sweet Pandemonium”), emotive balladry (“This Fortress of Tears”), and high-speed angst (“Soul on Fire”). But amidst the turbo-charged reinvigoration, the group retains a flair for disarmingly beautiful sounds…” ~
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“All music scenes and styles evolve over time and the gothic scene of today looks more to rock and metal than the punk and dance of its forebears. Along with such bands as Evanescence and Nightwish, HIM seem to have retained the best of past and present, the drive and power of hard rock and the emotive passion of old school goth. Buried Alive by Love fires up the album with…” ~ read 2 page review by Dave Franklin
“A lot of people have the propensity to give H.I.M. unnecessary doses of grief simply because of the band’s friendship and professional allegiance to pro skater Bam Margera. What’s unfortunate about this is that H.I.M. actually produces dramatic metal of high sonic quality, and once again Love Metal further reinforces that notion.” ~view full review by Rob Theakston
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