Love Metal
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| Studio album by HIM | |||||
| Released | April 14, 2003 | ||||
| Recorded | 2002 - 2003 | ||||
| Genre | Alternative rock | ||||
| Length | 52:51 | ||||
| Label | BMG | ||||
| Producer | Hiili Hiilesmaa, Tim Palmer | ||||
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Love Metal is HIM's fourth album, released on April 14, 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 HIM's genre was. HIM titled this album Love Metal as a response for that question.
On February 1, 2005 the regular edition of this album was released in the United States under Universal Records licensed by Jimmy Franks Recording Company.
This album is notable for being mastered much more quietly than HIM's other albums, and indeed more quietly than most metal albums.
The exclusive eleventh track, "Love's Requiem," was supposed to be released on the standard version of the album, but it pushed the album beyond the one hour mark, so Ville decided to put it on the Digipack version of the album.
[edit] Track listing
- "Buried Alive By Love" - 5:01
- "The Funeral of Hearts" - 4:30
- "Beyond Redemption" - 4:28
- "Sweet Pandemonium" - 5:46
- "Soul On Fire" - 4:00
- "The Sacrament" - 4:32
- "This Fortress of Tears" - 5:47
- "Circle of Fear" - 5:27
- "Endless Dark" - 5:35
- "The Path" - 7:44
- "Love's Requiem" * - 8:36
- * - Only available on the Digipack version
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