Yea, deffently wrong sub-forum To answer the question though, I reckon their a bit shite to be honist. Their songs are very samie both lyrically and musically, get very boring very quickly
they kinda suck. ever heard their cover of "dont fear the reaper"? there is an annoying voice over the whole second half of the song.. its just a looped high pitched squeel and it totally ruins the song.
I liked HIM's first couple albums... But since their US arrival the band has gone downhill in every way. They've utterly sold out, lost all their quality and original sound, and sacrificed any originality they used to have. Not to mention you can't walk five feet anymore without bumping into some 16 year old wearing seventy different items of clothing with heartagrams on them, pretending to be "dark and tragic" as he drives his parent's SUV to soccer practice.
Are you sure? They do have the right amount of cheesy teen angst and the right amount of love-death symbolism in their lyrics (and the right amount of eyeliner)...
Trust me mate, they're not emo, if you're gonna go by how much make up a band wears and how much they talk about love in songs then I think about 90% of 80's metal bands would be emo, and I really don't see the teenage angst HIM, I see their lyrics as many positive, Kurt Cobain had 10x the teenage angst that Ville Valo has.
you know, I thought HIM was going to sound like a more pretty pink gothy variation of The Cure. And, likewise, I was not interested in whiny music. I started listening to them and (in my opinion) they've got some sort of a gothy Billy Idol with a David Bowie kick to it. It's interesting.
I saw one of HIM's first gigs in Helsinki (we share the same home town) in '96 and became a fan instantly and was digging them until the third album came out. Since then it's really been nothing but downhill musically which is tragical since they actually had pretty much potential way back for some degree of true greatness. But instead of growing as atists they chose to grow as a product. I still get certain kicks out of Razorblade Romance, though.
