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heart-healer: Scene Point Blank. 18/12/2012 HIM XX: Two Decades of Love Metal: XX: Two Decades of Love Metal The End, 2012 Whatever you may think about HIM joke band, has-beens, rip-off merchants and so on and so on its hard to deny the very essence of their hard rocking joy. XX: Two Decades of Love Metal compiles nearly twenty (twenty!) years of the Fins self-branded love metal and its clear that their passion and whole-hearted belief in their woe-filled selves never diminished. Starting life as His Infernal Majesty, HIM soon abandoned such obviously dark tones for a direction that leant a little more towards the doomed love songs of yore whilst upholding the inherent rock and roll nature of their chosen genre check Type O Negative, Danzig et al for musical comparison and the hype machine really started to rumble circa 2003 and the release of the bands somewhat seminal Love Metal record. Cue vocalist Ville Valo living a terribly rock star-like lifestyle that was well documented in the press and HIMs career seemed on the verge of collapse with the almost forgettable odes heard on Dark Light and Venus Doom although the tracks chosen from these two works that appear on XX are certainly extraordinary highlights. Thankfully, HIM took all of their internal issues and external critique in their stride and it was recently announced that the provisionally titled Tears on Tape was in production. Huzzah! Its here on XX: Two Decades of Love Metal that the song-writing skill of Valo and his silky, breathy voice comes to the fore. HIM have to hand a massive back catalogue to choose from and their picks for this compilation are pretty much what any discerning fan would want to hear on the, generally, much maligned best of record. One new track is thrown to the wind in the form of Strange World, a cover of a song by the artist Ké, and its one that sits perfectly at ease with the nineteen lamentations that follow. The stadium bombast of Wings of a Butterfly compliments the steady crunch of Kiss of Dawn whilst the gentler beats of Gone with the Sin curl around the heart with the promise of despair. The absolutely massive Buried Alive By Love the song that really got HIM noticed hits early but by no means does that mean that XX lulls afterwards. Each of the subsequent movements of utter hopelessness at the very prospect of love and its ultimate demise punch with an immediacy most bands would kill for. HIM though, manage it juuuuuuuuuuuuust fine with a natural prowess for darkly anthemic hymns to loss. The bands most well known cover, Wicked Game (originally by Chris Isaacs) tingles with a heady anticipation and steers XX towards the closing pain of Heartache Every Moment via a devastating Killing Loneliness and a sweetly poignant When Love and Death Embrace. HIM have never really gone away, and long may they reign as masters of the despondence of love metal. 8.0 / 10 by Cheryl Prime on Tuesday 18th December 2012
: A new article about Helldone: HIM - Helsingin Sanomat http://fb.me/OAHxn9Ir [img]http://hs12.snstatic.fi/webkuva/oletus/560/1305632106344?ts=36[/img] Omalta osaltaan epäonnistuneen ensimmäisen illan jälkeen HIM-yhtyeen Ville Valo teki olosuhteisiin nähdään komean paluun Helldone-festivaalin toisena iltana. Hän oli skarppi, rento ja fokusoitunut, kaikkia niitä asioita, jotka jäivät perjantain keikasta puuttumaan. Hän oli karsinut ylenmääräisiä välispiikkejä ja tuntui halukkaalta korostamaan rakkauttaan bändikollegoitaan kohtaan. Mikään skarppaus esiintymisessä ei kuitenkaan poistanut sitä pohjalla olevaa ongelmaa, ettei hänen laulunsa ole kunnossa. Hänen äänialansa oli niin matala, että osumatarkkuus oli kovin heikkoa, erityisesti vaativissa pitemmissä ja korkeammissa äänissä. Voi vain toivoa, että kyse on tilapäisestä äänen menetyksestä. Yleisöstä käsin kuulosti siltä kuin tätä melko keskeistä ongelmaa oltaisiin yritetty peittää sekä miksaamalla hänen lauluaan alas että kasvattamalla muun bändin, erityisesti kitaristi Linde Lindströmin ja basisti Mige Paanasen roolia kappaleiden liveversioissa. Se antoi kyllä keikalle väkevyyttä ja draivia, mutta samalla korosti sitä, kuinka paljon työtä Valon laulun eteen on tehtävä, jotta kokonaisuus saadaan tasapainoon. Niin paljon yhtyeen vetovoimasta on kuitenkin hänen varassaan. Bändi oli karsinut setistään pois kolme kappaletta joista yksikään ei muuten ollut niitä, jotka perjantaina keskeytyivät ja soitti encoressa pitkän ja komean Sleepwalking Past Hopen. Sen loppuun kuultu Linden soolo oli niin huikean intensiivistä ja taitavaa raskasta kitarapsykedeliaa, ettei illan todellisesta työnsankarista jäänyt minkäänlaista epäselvyyttä.
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