"Don't Fear the Reaper" intriguingly reduces the volumeĪt the end of the album and the female vocals and piano add hopeful does have a sense for dynamics instead of playing just quiet or loud, which is pretty typical of H.I.M.'sĬontemporaries. "Wicked Game," especially, is somehow even better than Isaak's original version, or at least it proves that H.I.M. In fact, H.I.M.'s versions of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" and Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" are very idiosyncratic and fit very well on Greatest Lovesongs, Vol. Songs such as "The Beginning of the End" and "It's All Tears"Ĭan do a lot better than their poor single track "When Love and DeathĮmbrace." Two cover songs on a nine-track debut album might be too much,īut Ville Valo seems to beg the difference. Love-oriented lyrics the music itself combines metal with '80s rockĪnd some goth influences, and the album as a whole has a very diverse H.I.M.'s stigma of so-called "love metal" is actually undeserved and relates only to Ville Valo's You wouldn't expect a lot from a band whose debut album is entitled Greatest Lovesongs, Vol.
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