HIM - Venus Doom (W/Dvd)
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Artist: HIMEdition: Music CD
Format: Limited Edition, Special Edition
CD Release Date: 2007-09-18
Music Label: Sire / London/Rhino
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Venus Doom
- Love In Cold Blood
- Passion's Killing Floor
- The Kiss Of Dawn
- Sleepwalking Past Hope
- Dead Lover's Lane
- Song Or Suicide
- Bleed Well
- Cyanide Sun
- Love In Cold Blood
- Dead Lover's Lane
Music reviews of Venus Doom (W/Dvd)
Music Review: GREAT new HIM record...as for the
Rating: 5 Stars
[...]not this one pictured but the one only available through the webite Heartagram.com...it comes in a book that looks faded on the corners...it was said to be a "leatherback journal"...not. All it is is a nice dark-looking book with dark, artful photos, full lyrics in Ville's handwriting (not having the song titles listed either, just the lyrics??? That's quite odd, but maybe it's an artistic approach??? I had to take a regular version and write the song titles down??!!??)...and an envelope in the back with 2 discs inside and 3 "photos"...CD1 is "Venus Doom" and CD2 is a 3-tracker, the 2 remixes and a 3rd bonus track, an acoustic version of "Bleed Well"...besides the 3rd track, the difference between the bonus discs is on this one on Amazon, it's a DVD, while the one in the book version, it's a CD, so you can more easily get those tracks on your computer and iPod.
Now, the internet version of HIM's prior album "Dark Light", you got more stuff and each set was numbered, out of 20,000...not this one...with "Dark Light", you got 2 bonus tracks, "The Cage" (also on the other limited book) and "Venus (In Our Blood)"...the only way to get that song on CD was in this set, which made it cooler...it also came with a better booklet (with photos of fans with their tattoos, so it was more personal), a flashlight of sorts with the heartagram in it, and all of it packaged in a nice, sturdy TIN box with full artwork actually printed on the tin metal!!! The new set for "Venus Doom", in light of the limited "Dark Light", is a bit disappointing, and not worth the price...$62??? Shoulda been no more than $25, INCLUDING shipping and taxes, etc.
Now, the music...I agree with people here...it's heavier and not as atmospheric as recent works...more like "Greatest Lovesongs Vol 666"...it's not HEAVY heavy, but it has more crunch than "Dark Light", and the songs are as melodic and tuneful as ever, with Ville Valo in fine vocal form. His lovesick poetry is as potent as ever...nothing personal, but for art's sake, let's hope he never cures his broken heart. The songs are more intricate and longer, culminating with "Sleepwalking Past Hope" reaching the 10 minute mark!!!! More than half of the 9 songs are over 5 minutes long, but they never drag or lose focus...I love the title track, the first single "The Kiss Of Dawn", "Dead Lovers' Lane" (that's got bullseye hooks all over the song), all 9 really, even the minute & a half "Song Or Suicide" has its place.
Overall, the music is tops, as always, and the internet version's packaging is OK but not worth the price...get the regular version or the cloth booklike version pictured here instead.
Description of Venus Doom (W/Dvd)
Limited edition version includes a bonus CD with two additional tracks, Love In Cold Blood [Special K Remix] and Dead Lovers' Lane [Special C616 Remix]. Warner. 2007. After conquering the rest of the world with chart-topping albums and sold-out tours, Finland's HIM (His Infernal Majesty) won over the States with its 2005 U.S. debut, the Top 20 charting Dark Light. Venus Doom, produced by Tim Palmer (The Cure, U2 and HIM's Dark Light), elevates the band's summer-of-love-gone-goth to even greater heights. Two years ago, HIM had 45,000 MySpace friends. Today it has 400,000 and growing. We are all doomed.Venus Doom, the latest offering from Finland's HIM, suffers from a sense of dulling uniformity. Ville Valo veers ever closer to the headbanger's answer to Marvin Gaye as he croons his way through a series of sound-alikes. Whether "Love in Cold Blood," "Dead Lover's Lane," "Cyanide Sun," or the titular track, each barely maintains its own sonic identity and each leads us to question what's so infernal or majestic about Valo and his band. That's not to say that there aren't fine moments to be found--Valo's attempt at channeling Leonard Cohen in "Song or Suicide" is noble if far too short; the epic, "Sleepwalking Past Hope," is promising and dynamic, if not entirely stunning. Valo also shows, as he long has, that he's a thoroughly capable vocalist and songwriter, albeit one who doesn't seem all that keen on challenging himself or his audience. --Jedd Beaudoin
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