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| Venus Doom | 
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| Artist: H.i.m.
Label: Sire / London/Rhino
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 44716
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 105980
UPC: 093624998907
EAN: 0093624998907
ASIN: B000TUXL16
Release Date: September 18, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | 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 |
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Album Description
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 26 more reviews...
 A little harder-still solid! October 1, 2007
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This latest entry by one of the last real guitar bands proves that "rock is better off dead"! Just kidding, of course. Some of these lyrics makes one wonder how much longer this gothic theme will endure. Apparently Mr. Valo has no problem with pulling it off. "My heart's a graveyard" and "dead lovers lane" brings to mind the lurid horror films of the 1960's. Yet, to those who have ever experienced a broken heart, can relate to these strange and somewhat humorous lyrics.
Musically this is the heaviest offering the Finnish lads have offered. Love Metal has a heaviness to it, yet this tops that effort. Tim Palmer's production leads this album to the glory that H.I.M. deserves! "Sleepwalking Past Hope" crowns the bands career with a glorious stadium rock anthem that gives this band its due.
As the music industry seems to be dying, this band and its "already undead" approach give great reason to buy this record. I am thankful that this theme works. I cannot wait to see them on tour again!
Buyit Soon, Venus Doom September 24, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Ok, so let me get this straight(after reading reviews on this and previous HIM CDs): This band has 'sold out' because:
(A)they are signed to an American label after 8 years as a band(with the 2005 'Dark Light' album) and you no longer have to pay 4x the price for one of their CDs as an import.
(B)they are getting played on American radio.
(C)they are the first band from Finland to go Gold in America
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(D)all of the above?
I honestly don't understand the sell out remarks. All I know is that this band makes good interesting emotional music. So what's the problem? None, in my opinion. Well, just one: their CD booklets aren't that interesting. ha
I think the new CD is great. The biggest difference that I noticed compared to thier previous 'sell out'(yes, sarcasm) Dark Light is that there are less keyboards on this new CD and -brace yourself- guitar solos! The riffs are memorable and Ville Valo sings in all the styles you would expect him to. None of the songs remind you of anything off of Dark Light. There's no real toe tappers on here like 'Rip Out The Wings of a Butterfly" and you really need to listen more intently with the new CD. I only wish there were more than 9 songs on it. Oddly, the 10-minute "Sleepwalking Past Hope" is the least interesting song on the CD to me.
I think anyone reviewing this CD needs to listen to it at least half a dozen times before any attempt at a review is made. Each HIM CD I buy I usually have to listen to over and over to really get into because this band sounds like no other band that I listen to and that makes for a truly unique band. You know instantly who it is even if you've never heard the song before. I like bands like that. If you like their other stuff, then this one will be no different in my opinion. If you like the single 'Kiss of Dawn' then that's all you really need to know in deciding to buy this CD. I was hoping for more keyboards after listening to it, because they have a really weird keyboard sound on all of thier CDs, but it's still great. They toned down the haunted house/phantom of the opera type keyboards(as I call it) this time around. Maybe that's why everyone is saying 'sell out' cos they sound closer to a more traditional rock band. Nevertheless... great CD.
 Not the best September 18, 2007
6 out of 13 found this review helpful
Commercial just like Dark light. I suppose to appeal to the US market. HIM is going away further and firther from their roots and roginal sound that made them popular in the first place. Sad to see them victims to conforming what the record label wants.
At least every love stuck teen will be happy and by this CD.
Is there more than 1 song on this album? September 21, 2007
6 out of 14 found this review helpful
Ok, first, I just want to say that I am a big fan of HIM. I have all of their CDs and have enjoyed them immensely. However, this particular CD struck me as boring, monotonous, and indulgent. Each song seemed to melt into the next and not in a good way. I felt as though I was listening to the same song continue to play for an hour. The background music didn't appear to change much and the lyrics were all pretty much repetitious. The addition of "the deep ominous voice" was interesting on the first track but soon became a bit cheesy due to overuse. Overall, my impression of this CD was not a positive one. Maybe next time...
I'm still in love... October 3, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
It seems that a band can't ever do anything new without being labeled a sell-out. And those spouting such epithets are often those who have no experience whatsoever in playing or writing music.
I've noticed that after many years of working in retail establishments that sell CDs, a lot of people are like sheep. They find one band they like, cling to it, and then search out other bands that sound just like it. I have never understood this. I don't want all of my music to sound alike; what would be the fun in that? Honestly, I can't think of a particular band that really reminds me of HIM. They are, in my opinion, an entity unto themselves. I love the variety of HIM's music over the course of their career, and COMMERCIAL SUCCESS DOES NOT MAKE YOU A SELL-OUT. It makes you a hard worker. Sheesh. And honestly, do you people think that Ville Valo would ever conform to what a record label wanted just for the sake of selling albums? Come on! That guy has never conformed a day in his life, and he isn't about to start now.
I loved this album. I've loved all of HIM's albums since I discovered them a mere two years ago - I'm surprised I didn't know of them sooner, as my husband is half Finnish. Anyway, the album is very guitar heavy, owing to the fact that when they started to record the album, Burton (keyboards) was home with a new baby. And you know what? The heavy guitar works. The riffs are great - Linde (lead guitar) really gets to show off on this album. Ville's vocals are brilliant - really, when are they not? - and the overall sound is tight and speaks to the band's many years together.
This album is dark and a bit gritty (in a good way), and different from what I expected. There are no tender love songs here, no sweet words, mostly just desolation, grief, and anger. Mmmm. My inner goth girl loves it. I enjoy the more sophisticated structure of the songs, especially changing time signatures in the course of a single song (example: "Bleed Well"). And having a song completely in 3/4 time ("Cyanide Sun") is daring - I've been told by people in the music industry that you can't have a hit in 3/4 time. Riiiight.
Writing songs is hard. Making a living in music is harder. (I know both of these things from personal experience.) I respect anyone who can do it, and HIM does it well. People can cry "sell-out" all they want - it's a free country - but my opinion is that the band is excellent at what they do, and the rest of the world is finally starting to notice.
End of story.
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