The Gauntlet Review 'Screamworks' album
Mary Madskills gives her review of the upcoming HIM album for The Gauntlet:
When Finnish self-proclaimed love -metallers HIM release their 7th studio album, titled "Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice" (out February 2010), they're not channeling the melancholic, gloomy and sometimes depressed sound from their earlier releases. Maybe front-man and the band’s main songwriter Ville Valo's sobriety has something to do with it. This is the first album he writes while being completely sober and as Ville himself has said in various interviews, that instead of putting energy into going to bars, he put it into his songwriting.
The first time I heard the album I didn’t quite know what to think about it, as it was so different from what I had expected. However, I grew to love the album more and more after each spin. I wasn't too psyched about it after hearing the first single 'Heartkiller' a few days before receiving the album. While 'Heartkiller' is a good song, it is not a great song. If it was up to me, I would have chosen a different song to give a better first view of the album as a whole.
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