Cold Metal Perfection [ECD] - Nic Endo

Love Him... Love Metal by HIM

Advantages: 7 great tracks :-)
Disadvantages: 4 duds :-(

HIM's fourth album "Love Metal" is one of their best so far, delivering lovelorn lyrics and rock melodies influenced by metal, goth and pop. First track "Buried Alive By Love" has an urgent, fast pace and sounds to one of my friends like nu-metal. It's not really nu-metal: it's a bit hard to describe, but it is best described as hard pop-rock. A good song anyway. "The Funeral Of Hearts" is a beautiful ballad with some great guitar and keyboards plus lovely vocals from singer Ville Valo. This was the first HIM song I ever heard and it certainly impressed me. Despite the title, it doesn't sound too "funeraic" - although it does have a touch of goth. It soars majestically and this version on the album is a million miles better than the radio edit, which is about a minute shorter and missed out instrumental key changes (the radio edit ...

helen666 13.05.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Love Metal [ECD] - HIM

Cold, Clinical Polish Death Metal

Advantages: Technical, Atmospheric, full of catchy riffs, brilliantly executed
Disadvantages: None

Released in 2004, 'The Negation' is an excellent slab of technical, groove-laden death metal with a cold and mechanical-sounding edge to it. This was the last album to feature Sauron on vocals, and is regarded by many as the band's proudest moment. The songs are a mix of cold, and at times almost doomy guitar lines and incredibly tight high-speed riffing backed up by fast, clinical, blastbeat-heavy percussion courtesy of the now sadly departed drummer Vitek. The vocals are a guttoral, largely emotionless affair, bellowed in a slow and calculated manner over the chaotic mailstrom of riffs and drums in a way that suits the music perfectly. The songs are full of tight, chugging riffs that are worked with almost surgical precision into the various deep, slow grooves that each track hammers home repeatedly, and this is contrasted ...

Burning_Darkness 30.06.2009 · Read full review
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The Cold Shoulder

Advantages: Some nice guitar riffage and decent drumming
Disadvantages: Lack of originality, bad vocals, very predictable

Cold - Cold I bought this album cheap in a closing down sale. I had heard a lot of people going on about this band and loved "Just Got Wicked", and decided that I would buy it to see what it was really like for myself. 1. Go Away Some bloke says something before some heavy sounding guitars come in. Then into the verse, but I'm sure I've heard a few voices like this guys. The verse is alright, and the chorus is alright too but there doesn't seem to be a lot of lyrics in the chorus. Then into a bridge. The drumming is alright and the guitars are chugging away. Into another verse and back into the chorus. There are melodic and screaming vocals throughout this song. But I'm more concerned about who's voice his sounds like. Another little bridge, guitars are doing some cool bits over the rhythm guitars. It's an alright ...

mental_infestation 19.10.2005 · Read full review
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