Love metal
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April 14, 2003 |
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| Label (s) | Great Sonic, Gun Records | |||
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CD |
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10 |
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52:51 |
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Hiili Hiilesmaa , Tim Palmer |
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Love Metal (English for. "Love Metal" ) is the fourth studio album by the Finnish rock band HIM . In Germany it was released on April 14, 2003. Three singles were released with music videos ( The Funeral of hearts , Buried alive by love and The Sacrament ).
Album title
The album title Love Metal describes the music style of HIM , which combines love poetry (Love) and hard, rocky sounds (Metal) .
Album cover
As with the previous albums, Janne Uotila ( noted in the booklet this time under the pseudonym Natas Pop ) designed the cover in collaboration with Valo. The color concept is gold-black. It is the first studio album that no longer has a photo of singer Ville Valo on the cover (except for the compilation album And Love Said No, which was released a year later ). He said that at 26 he felt too old for that. Instead of a photo you can see the band logo Heartagram , which was supplemented with a circle for the first time. The symbol is gold and the background is black with black ornaments. Inside the booklet there are gold and black photos of each band member and the lyrics are written in Valo's handwriting.
History of origin
After the success of the two previous albums and the long, exhausting tours that went with them, the band allowed themselves a creative break in 2002, which was only occasionally interrupted for a festival appearance. So the group was able to work extensively on a successor to Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights . Already in advance, singer Valo said that after the quiet previous album, an album "for the boys" should be created, with clearly harder, rockier sounds again. For this reason, Hiili Hiilesmaa was hired as producer again , who had already supported the group on their first album . Two songs were mixed in London, the rest in Scream Studios in Los Angeles under Tim Palmer .
Publications and chart placements
Finally, the album was released on April 14, 2003 in Germany, Finland and the rest of Europe. In the USA, the record was officially released on February 1, 2005. In Germany and Finland, the album reached number 1 in the charts. Of the three singles ( The Funeral of Hearts , Buried Alive By Love and The Sacrament ) only the previously published The Funeral of Hearts made it into the top ten of the German charts (number 3, in Finland number 1).
Again a limited digipak was released from the album in addition to the standard version. The song Love's Requiem can only be found in this version.
Information about the video clips
The Funeral of Hearts was filmed in the Finnish and Norwegian part of Lapland in January 2003 . Both the video clip and the song are reminiscent of a legend in terms of style . In the video you can see many "mythical creatures" in the landscape through which the band travels. On the set it was, according to the director, in the Norwegian part (at the lake) about −25 to −30 ° C and in the Finnish part down to −41 ° C, that's why the faces of the band members look so white, it is and not about white make-up. The Finnish designer and artist Stefan Lindfors directed .
Bam Margera , who became aware of the band during a visit to Europe and took a liking to their music, then sought contact with them. So a collaboration finally came about. Margera directed the music videos for Buried Alive By Love , which was made in an old movie theater (the LA Theater ) in Los Angeles and with the participation of actress Juliette Lewis , as well as for The Sacrament , which was in a castle in the Czech Republic ( Ploskovice Castle ) and was shot in Prague .
Information on individual songs
- The song The Path was written by Valo for the Finnish film Honey Baby .
- Love's Requiem played HIM live for the first time in December 2014.
- From The Path and Buried alive by love there is one version with alternative text.
Others
On March 8, 2003, HIM played a pre-concert for the press and fans at the Große Freiheit in Hamburg. They played all the songs on the new album ( except Love's Requiem ), in the order of the album.
Track list
The pieces without further information were written by Ville Valo.
- Buried Alive By Love - 5:01
- The Funeral of Hearts - 4:30
- Beyond Redemption - 4:28
- Sweet Pandemonium - 5:46
- Soul On Fire - 4:02
- The Sacrament - 4:32
- This Fortress of Tears - 5:47
- Circle of Fear - 5:27
- Endless Dark - 5:36
- The Path - 7:45
Bonus track digipak edition:
- Love's Requiem - 8:44
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c see: Booklet by Love Metal
- ↑ [1] , video title: "Ville Valo Interview 7-4-2003", interview from April 7, 2003, source from minute 1:56, accessed on August 6, 2015
- ↑ a b see: HIM / discography
- ↑ [2] , video title: HIM Behind the Senes - The Making of The Funeral of Hearts , Interview with Ville Valo and Stefan Lindfors in February 2003, source: from minute 5: 36–6: 35 and from 7:75; last accessed on August 6, 2015
- ↑ Source: Bonus DVD Bam vs. HIM for the HIM DVD Love Metal Archives Vol.1 ; Published in 2005; the bonus DVD contains making-ofs for music videos that Bam Margera made for HIM.
- ↑ [3] , video title. "Ville Valo Interview Part 2/5 (Digital Versatile Doom)", source from minute 3:02; accessed on August 6, 2015
- ↑ [4] , video title: "Love's Requiem HIM @ Webster Hall - NYC 09/12/2014"; accessed on August 6, 2015
- ↑ Source: [5] old fansite with transcripts of interviews, HIM Heart of Gold ; Article from the Sonic Seducer from 2003 (month unknown), quote: “[...] He does everything just not to endanger the big showcase on March 8, 2003 at the Große Freiheit in Hamburg. 'The idea is that we play the entire album from start to finish […]' Three hours after the Hamburg concert was announced without warning on the HIM homepage, all the fan seats were already booked. [...] "