HIM   Love Metal
3.5
great
Release Date: 2003
Tracklist

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3.5 greatCrazyFool84 | October 11th 09

Perhaps costing myself whatever bit of credibility I may have had on this site, I actually was pretty big into this band (along with the CKY crew and vids) when I was younger, and this band (alongside CKY - the band, that is) have always held a bit of a place in my library as a guilty pleasure. With Love Metal, despite naming their album after a retarded moniker developed for the band's music, it was almost a culmination of what they had been working at with Razorblade and Brilliant Shadows. There are more than a handful of good songs on here, and in the odd moment of weakness I still find myself rockin' the Sacrament or Funeral of Hearts now and then. Everything after this point for the band, however, is open for justifiable criticism.

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4.0 excellentIsley Browne | April 29th 19

HIM's second masterpiece. It was bound to happen eventually

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2.0 poorJared Floryan | August 4th 15

Wherever you can appreciate or ultimately despise what this Finnish rock band usually churns out, there's no denying how sappy and one-dimensional HIM can be; Love Metal is proof of that. Although fairly admirable production-wise thanks to Hiili Hiilesmaa and Tim Palmer, about a good chunk of this album is unfortunately less than the sum of its parts. The instrumentation on the record lacks power while the overall atmosphere that's presented has all the subtlety of an oversized gong. If I'm being perfectly honest, a golden retriever dressed up like Edward Scissorhands would come across as more tasteful and all-around clever. "Soul on Fire" and "This Fortress of Tears" are actually good enough tracks to revisit on the plus side, while closer "The Path" is decent in its own right as well, but I wouldn't bother coming back to every other song.

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4.0 excellentSpotter | August 5th 10

Recommended Songs:
Buried alive by love
Soul on Fire
Endless Dark
Circle of Fear
The Funeral of Hearts


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5.0 classicalliefilth | October 15th 07

What can I say about this? Perfection. Every HIM album has touched me but "Love Metal" has touched me the most. From "Buried Alive by Love" to "The Path" is sweet bliss. Once I turn on this CD, I can't stop. I have to listen to every song. The first HIM song I ever heard, "The Sacrament", is on this album and when I saw HIM live for the first time in 2005, I cried when they performed it.

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