Are you in to melodic melodies or heavy metal riffs well I have a cd for you that has it all. Its called Dark light, and it is by a finnish goth rock band called H.I.M. It will mezmorize you with its sweet melodic melodies as in Dark Light and Play Dead and rip you apart with the songs The Night Side of Eden and it flag ship songs Killing Loneliness and Rip Out the Wings of a Butterfly. To any one who may be looking for something different and exciting to pierce there ears to i highly recomend this album. You wont regret it.

I always liked HIM. This album is very good, my other favorite was Razorblade Romance. This is a pretty solid album, the songs are pretty good and consistant, but i think razorblade romance was a little bit better.

I See that this album is rated **** stars and i, myself do not diasagree as this album is very very good. But there are a few minor bad things:

The songs are not as powerful and grabbing as H.I.M. songs normally are....

There are no amazing signature "Daniel Lioneye" guitar solo's from Lily Lazer

The album takes a lot of listening to, to really aprechiate the effort put into this album

But there are good points aswell:

The songs are very catchy

They show all styles of music that H.I.M. do in mayb 1 song (eg.the nightside of eden)

The songs are long but do not drag on like maybe some songs from other artists do

To sum this album up: it is a very underrated album and is very good. But is as most people will agree the other albums are better.

This album is amazing! I went and bought it after hearing just one song. The sound is incredible! Not only is the music mind-blowing but the album cover itself is awesome! It's so creative. And it (of course) has the bands brilliant logo the heartagram, on the front.

H.I.M - Dark Light

1. Vampire Heart
2. Rip out the wings of a Butterfly
3. Under the Rose
4. Killing Loneliness
5. Dark Light
6. Behind the Crimson Door
7. The Face of God
8. Drunk on Shadows
9. Play Dead
10. In the Nightside of Eden

Okay, generally HIM are either a band you love with all your dark little heart or despise intensely. Their fans are obsessive, their skeptics even more so. The finnish quintet struck gold with "love metal". The album that many felt defined their career and would never be topped. "Dark Light" does not dissapoint. However, nor does it even come close to the sheer magnificence of HIMs former glorys.

The album kicks off with the brooding "vampire heart" and one thing hits you, HIM have grown up. "Vampire Heart" is much more melodic (and meloncholic) than they've ever been before, and its chorus, rather than exploding such is HIMs usual pattern, breaks to half time and becomes almost a power ballad. This tends to be a trend throughout the album. "Rip out the wings of a butterfly" and "In the nightside of eden" are by far the weakest songs present. The former being decisively unimaginative and the latter just being ridiculously morbid.

The good points on this album far outweigh the bad however. "Killing Loneliness" and "Drunk on shadows" are without doubt two of the best tracks HIM have ever written. And they also seem to have mastered the romanticised ballad technique with "dark light" and "play dead" being sweet, beautiful and tragic in equal measure.

Overall, this is a consistent effort from HIM. This isnt spectacular, but its more than enough to prove that they still have much to offer after the "will they/wont they" argument that raged after "love metal" was so wildly revered.
Also, it should be menchained, this album will make them huge.
It will be a task for HIM keeping their next record dark and meloncholy. Their future is certainly looking bright.

andy kavna