H.I.M.
Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice, Chapters 1-13
Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice, Chapters 1-13
UPC: 093624969983
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Release Date: Feb 08, 2010
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Audio Mixer: Neal Avron.
Recording information: NRG Studios, North Hollywood, CA; The Lair Studio, Los Angeles, CA.
Photographer: David Roemer.
Finnish goth rockers His Infernal Majesty's seventh studio album was built around one of pop music's most ubiquitous themes, heartache. Breakups have been throwing artists into alternating fits of feverish work and hopeless despondency since time immemorial, resulting in both great works and self-absorbed descents into bloated narcissism. Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice is a little bit of both. The group's penchant for melodramatic late-'80s/early-'90s melodic alt-rock in the vein of New Model Army, Dream Theater, and Mission UK serves as an efficient yet predictable vehicle to deliver the primal scream that is heartbreak, and songs like "In Venere Veritas," "Heartkiller," and "Katherine Wheel" deliver the goods with solid hooks and appropriate gravitas. Overall, the material sits within the band's canon well enough to please longtime fans, and listeners looking for some kind of middle ground between Evanescence, late-period Queensrÿche, and Fall Out Boy will more than likely find a few wicked gems to hang their heads to. ~ James Christopher Monger
Recording information: NRG Studios, North Hollywood, CA; The Lair Studio, Los Angeles, CA.
Photographer: David Roemer.
Finnish goth rockers His Infernal Majesty's seventh studio album was built around one of pop music's most ubiquitous themes, heartache. Breakups have been throwing artists into alternating fits of feverish work and hopeless despondency since time immemorial, resulting in both great works and self-absorbed descents into bloated narcissism. Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice is a little bit of both. The group's penchant for melodramatic late-'80s/early-'90s melodic alt-rock in the vein of New Model Army, Dream Theater, and Mission UK serves as an efficient yet predictable vehicle to deliver the primal scream that is heartbreak, and songs like "In Venere Veritas," "Heartkiller," and "Katherine Wheel" deliver the goods with solid hooks and appropriate gravitas. Overall, the material sits within the band's canon well enough to please longtime fans, and listeners looking for some kind of middle ground between Evanescence, late-period Queensrÿche, and Fall Out Boy will more than likely find a few wicked gems to hang their heads to. ~ James Christopher Monger
Tracks:
1 - In Venere Veritas
2 - Scared to Death
3 - Heartkiller
4 - Dying Song
5 - Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)
6 - Love, the Hardest Way
7 - Katherine Wheel
8 - In the Arms of Rain
9 - Ode to Solitude
10 - Shatter Me with Hope
11 - Acoustic Funeral (For Love in Limbo)
12 - Like St. Valentine
13 - Foreboding Sense of Impending Happiness
2 - Scared to Death
3 - Heartkiller
4 - Dying Song
5 - Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)
6 - Love, the Hardest Way
7 - Katherine Wheel
8 - In the Arms of Rain
9 - Ode to Solitude
10 - Shatter Me with Hope
11 - Acoustic Funeral (For Love in Limbo)
12 - Like St. Valentine
13 - Foreboding Sense of Impending Happiness