HIM: Track-By-Track Review Of Forthcoming Album Available

November 15, 2009

U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine has posted a track-by-track review of the forthcoming album from Finnish "love" metallers HIM, entitled "Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice". Read it at this location.

"Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice" was recorded at a Los Angeles studio with producer Matt Squire (TAKING BACK SUNDAY, THE USED, PANIC AT THE DISCO, BOYS LIKE GIRLS, THRICE).

The CD will contain the following tracks (not final sequence):

01. Ode To Solitude
02. Scared To Death
03. Heart Killer
04. Dying Song
05. Disarm Me
06. Love The Hardest Way
07. Katherine Wheel
08. In The Arms Of Rain
09. Shatter Me With Hope
10. In Venere Veritas
11. Acoustic Funeral
12. St. Valentine
13. Smother A Heart

A February 2010 release via Warner Bros. Records is expected.

HIM's last studio album, "Venus Doom", sold 38,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 12 on The Billboard 200 chart. Its predecessor, "Dark Light", has shifted more than 500,000 units in the U.S. to date.

HIM's CD/DVD set, "Digital Versatile Doom: Live at the Orpheum Theatre", was released in April 2008. The live portion of the DVD was recorded/filmed at the band's November 14-15, 2007 concerts at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. "Digital Versatile Doom" also features a second disc, with the full live performance from The Orpheum Theater and a 16-page booklet of original art and images.

(Thanks: iron_maiden_fan)

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