Mudvayne boasts a couple of elements that distinguish it from most contemporary heavy metal outfits. The band adopts bizarre facial makeup that is less suggestive of Kiss than of a bunch of boys who, having failed to plan their Halloween costumes, threw something together by raiding their mother’s vanity case. And lead singer Kud (they have funny pseudonyms, too) doesn’t always sing in a typical hardcore howl, sometimes descending into a more conventional voice, as if he were auditioning to replace Sebastian Bach in the Broadway production of Jekyll & Hyde. Such characteristics[......]

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The Sacrament” is a song by Finnish band HIM, released in 2003. It is the sixth track and third single from the album Love Metel. Thmusic video was created by Bam Margera.

Love Metal is HIMs fourth album, released on 14 April 2003. The digipak edition of this album also includes the bonus track “Love’s Requiem”. This is HIM’s first album that made the band popular to a wider public.

This is HIM’s first album that does not feature Ville Valo on the cover. Instead, it features the heartagram, the band’s logo.

Valo had grown tired of reporters constantly asking what he considered HIM’s genre was. HIM titled this album Love Metal as a response for that question.

On 1 February 2005 the regular edition of this album was releas[......]

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Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights is the third album by HIM, which was released on 26 March 2001. This is the first album that new keyboardist Janne Puurtinen took part in, thus making it the first album with HIM’s current line-up.

Even though H.I.M.’s main goal seems to be gaining attention from a female audience, Greatest Lovesongs sure was artistically a success. The contrast between Razorblade Romance and the debut, however, is quite large. Melancholy and angst seem a little artificial, while Greatest Lovesongs had a truly pressuring atmosphere all the time. Razorblade Romance forgets all about that, and the whole concept of gothic rock and so-called love metal repeats itself many times during the album. But the songs themselves are actually very good; when ignoring the implementation, hit songs like “Joi[......]

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