Him - Venus Doom
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Artist: HimEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-09-18
Music Label: Sire / London/Rhino
Product features:
- HIM VENUS DOOM
- 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
Music reviews of Venus Doom
Music Review: Suprised and kind of amazed
Rating: 4 Stars
At this point in their career (at least for over here in the U.S. anyway),this is a pretty brave album for them to have made. Here's what I mean:
I've been listening to these guys for several years now, ever since I heard "Join Me in Death" something like seven years ago. I've been a fan of their music ever since. Not a diehard-obsessive who hangs on every word out of Ville's mouth, but a fan nonetheless and a new release from them is something I alway look forward too. After "Dark Light" I was really amazed at the progression from "Love Metal". Yeah, it had a much slicker appeal to it and it was definitely more commercial. Normally when a band does this, it cheapens the overall effect for me. Not because I think of it in terms of "selling out", but it really bothers me to know that a band I really like is about to get a lot bigger. Call me a jerk but I get a little annoyed when I see something I love turned into a fashion statement because you know that the jackasses you see claiming to like their music will just be spitting it right back out in six months, moving on to whatever else is "in". "Dark Light" didn't really have this effect on me. I knew that it would make them even bigger, but I was still able to embrace the album for what it was and I still listen to it occasionally. I may not love it as much as "Razorblade Romance" or "Greatest Love Songs Vol.666" but I think it ranks pretty close.
After all the exposure they've gotten through Bam, as well as on their own merit over the years, H.I.M. is now bigger than ever. I've even seen 5th graders running around in heartagram t-shirts. So why was I so suprised with "Venus Doom"? Well, the first thing I thought of was WOW! Is this IT?? Did I put in the right cd? It's definitely heavier and it's kind of a backstep from the direction they were heading in with "Dark Light". Some have said it's just as commercial sounding but I just don't see that. The songs aren't quite as instantly infectious. They require more than a couple listens to fully digest and in my opinion, that makes for a better song. Aside from being heavier, there is of course, much less emphasis on the keyboards. Initially, I wasn't too crazy about that last bit, but the more I came back to the album, I saw that the material just didn't call for it near as much. It's still there, and very effective where it's used. Just check out "Dead Lover's Lane".
At just nine songs, I felt myself wanting more when the album ended. I wasn't quite satisfied. A little unfulfilled. Then I listened to it again. And Again. So on and so forth. Now that I've had time to let it sink in a little, I believe that it's up there with some of their best material. They've greatly matured as a band and just as with many of my favorite albums, you won't even start to hear the best stuff until at least a half-dozen listens. This is also, in my mind, what makes it one of their strongest efforts. The good stuff is in there but you will be required to pay attention.
Description of Venus Doom
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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