Razorblade Romance [Extra tracks, Import, Live]

HIM, Doug Scharin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 30, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Live
• Label: Bmg Int'l
• ASIN: B00005RHK1
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (307 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #163,119 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Love You (Prelude to Tragedy)

2. Poison Girl

3. Join Me in Death

4. Right Here in My Arms

5. Gone with the Sin

6. Razorblade Kiss

7. Bury Me Deep Inside Your Heart

8. Heaven Tonight

9. Death Is in Love with Us

10. Resurrection

11. One Last Time

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

74 of 86 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you have a chance, you should definitely check H.I.M. out, March 10, 2004

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George Dionne (Cape Cod, MA) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Razorblade Romance (Audio CD)

What's Good About It?

Remember when Billy's chocolate bar fell into Sally's peanut butter? Get you're mind out of the gutter, it's an old Reese's commercial. H.I.M.'s combination of glam and goth are a similar sweet treat. H.I.M. may brandish their music as "love metal," but their not talking about healthy relationships. "Your Sweet Six Six Six" is about an attraction with the spawn of Satan that our singer cannot turn away from. Ville's vocals are seductive and somewhat creepy.

The bass line driven hook of "Poison Girl" delves into the seductive powers of a woman's kiss. If you can't see where these relationships are going yet, you will on "Join Me In Death." Ville transforms into a sinister monster vocally, as the group adds eerie piano to their dark rhythms. My favorite track is a pumped up reworking of the Chris Isaac classic "Wicked Game." You don't know the song? I'll bet you remember the black and white video with the half naked brunette running down the beach. This song about a painful love fits the group's style to a tee. This time around it's darker and heavier.

"Razorblade Kiss" has a rock radio feel to it. It's loaded with razor sharp riffs, a melodic chorus, and a silvery solo section. "Death is in Love With Us" has a more breakneck rhythm to it and we find Ville a little more cocksure in his vocal delivery. How does one end a tortured relationship? "Sigillum Diaboli" answers that question. This track finds the group mixing it up with a little punk rock flow. If you can call it a love ballad, "One Last Time" is an acoustic track with distant, melancholy vocals, which propositions a final affair before these lovers go their separate ways.

Anything Bad?

Could they print the lyrics any smaller?!

Bottom Line

H.I.M.'s combination of deep, seductive, melodic vocals and dark gothic rhythms are a unique twist in the rock genre. Their guitar tone is simply awesome. It's the main reason I liked this CD so much. I can forgive Ville for his brief falsettos. They seem to fit the sinister, tortured love theme he's creating.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HIM is finally in the U.S.!, October 28, 2003

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Sporadic (Here, at my computer...) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Razorblade Romance (Audio CD)

HIM's second release is finally re-released in the U.S. (again). This version is a little different from the original European releases because it includes the classic Chris Isaak cover Wicked Game, and the song Your Sweet 666 both off of HIM's first CD (Greatest Lovesongs Volume 666)
So many people with different music preferabilities enjoy HIM. They are the perfect mix of metal and love ballads, (hence their musical label of Love Metal, which also happens to be their newest album released in europe) This CD has the perfect mix of fast catchy music to the slow love songs, and Ville Valo's voice is wonderful. He can hit so many notes...About this CD being parental advisory: Ignore it, the PA is on their because of song number 3. Join Me (In Death) which is metaphorical, but the label insisted it was a song hinting suicide. But if you are ready for a change, definalty check out this CD, and look out for HIM, because they are definatly going to blow up.

BUY IT NOW!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The TRUE definition of Gothic Music, February 15, 2001

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"boomchickie" (Rostock, Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Razorblade Romance (Audio CD)

As you may or may not know, the term "gothic" was born from the literary and artistic Romantic movement in the 19th Century. So naturally, when one thinks about Gothic music, one also should find the romantic element as well.

Razorblade Romance is genuinely Gothic. HIM mixes the elements of tragedy and romance as well as Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet, the two intertwined until the end. Ville Valo's deep lethargic voice sends the words straight to the heart while a guitar mimics the lyric's sentiment with its riffs.

I bought this album a month ago after hearing "Gone with the Sin" on the radio. Since then, Razorblade Romance has remained on the top of my "Most Played" list and has led me to buy all of HIM's previous albums.

For those of you who think that Marilyn Manson and NIN are the definition of "gothic," LISTEN UP! Lend an ear to this Finnish band and I promise that you won't be disappointed. For those of you who are suckers for romance and deep voices (myself included) this should DEFINATELY be on your "To Buy" list! :)

PS: To learn more about this awesome band, go to their web site at ...!! :)