Love Metal

Love Metal is HIM's 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 released in the United States under Universal Records licensed by Jimmy Franks Recording Company.

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 Digipak version of the album. The album sold more than 1,000,000 copies worldwide.

Track listing

All songs are composed by Ville Valo.

1. "Buried Alive by Love" – 5:01
2. "The Funeral of Hearts" – 4:29
3. "Beyond Redemption" – 4:28
4. "Sweet Pandemonium" – 5:46
5. "Soul on Fire" – 4:00
6. "The Sacrament" – 4:32
7. "This Fortress of Tears" – 5:47
8. "Circle of Fear" – 5:27
9. "Endless Dark" – 5:35
10. "The Path" – 7:44
11. "Love's Requiem" * – 8:36

Bonus Videos:

1. "The Funeral of Hearts: (Video)" – 3:40
2. "Buried Alive By Love" (Video)*" - 4:05

• * - Digipack/European iTunes bonus track

Love Metal Promo Sampler CD

1. "Buried Alive By Love" – 5:01
2. "The Funeral of Hearts" – 4:30
3. "Beyond Redemption" – 4:28
4. "Sweet Pandemonium" – 5:46
5. "Soul on Fire" – 4:00
6. "The Sacrament" – 4:32

B-Sides

Only in the singles

1. "The Funeral of Hearts" (Radio edit)
2. "The Funeral of Hearts" (Album version)
3. "The Funeral of Hearts" (Acoustic version)
4. "Soul on Fire" (Erich Zann's Supernatural remix)
5. "The Funeral of Hearts" (Dr. Dagon's Dub)
6. "Hand of Doom" (Live edit in Turku)
7. "The Sacrament" (Disrhythm Remix)
8. "Buried Alive By Love" (radio edit)
9. "Buried Alive By Love" (live in Helsinki)
10. "Buried Alive By Love" (live)
11. "The Sacrament" (acoustic version)
12. "Buried Alive By Love" (Deliverance version)
13. "The Sacrament" (Dysrhythim Remix)
14. "The Sacrament" (radio edit)

Personnel

HIM

• Ville Hermanni Valo — lead vocals
• Mikko Viljami "Linde" Lindström — lead guitar
• Mikko Henrik Julius "Migé" Paananen — bass guitar
• Janne Johannes "Emerson Burton" Puurtinen — keyboards
• Mika Kristian "Gas Lipstick" Karppinen — drums

References