HIM - Lashes to Ashes, Lust to Dust A Vinyl Retrospective 96-03 (Deluxe Edition Box Set) (2014)

Genre: Gothic
Subgenre: Gothic Metal / Dark Rock
Bitrate: 320 k
Size: 764.21 MB

CD1: Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 (1997)
1. For You (Intro)
2. Your Sweet Six Six Six
3. Wicked Game
4. The Heartless
5. Our Diabolikal Rapture
6. It's All Tears (Drown In This Love)
7. When Love And Death Embrace
8. The Beginning Of The End
9. (Don't Fear) The Reaper
Bonus Tracks:
1. Your Sweet Six Six Six (Live at Helldone TRE MMXIII)
2. It's All Tears (ACSTC Live G&T Version)
3. Our Diabolikal Rapture (Live at Rockpalast MM)
4. The Heartless (ACSTC Pascha MMXIV)
5. Stigmata Diaboli (Live at Caribia TKU MMII)
6. For You (ACSTC Live G&T Version)
7. The Beginning Of The End (Live at Provinssirock MCMXCIX)
8. When Love And Death Embrace (Live at Center Stage GA MMXIV)

CD2: Razorblade Romance (1999)
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
Bonus Tracks:
1. I Love You (TRNSFRMTN Version)
2. Resurrection (PRCX Version)
3. Right Here In My Arms (Live at El Teatro Flores BS.AS.MMXIV)
4. Poison Girl (Strongroom Sessions)
5. Bury Me Deep Inside Your Heart (Strongroom Sessions)
6. Death Is In Love With Us (Live at Helldone SJK MMXIII)
7. Join Me In Death (PRCX Version)
8. Gone With The Sin (Strongroom Sessions)

CD3: Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights (2001)
1. Salt In Our Wounds
2. Heartache Every Moment
3. Lose You Tonight
4. In Joy And Sorrow
5. Pretending
6. Close To The Flame
7. You Are The One
8. Please Don't Let It Go
9. Beautiful
10. In Love And Lonely
11. Don't Close Your Heart
12. Love You Like I Do
Bonus Tracks:
1. Again (Hollola Tapes)
2. Pretending (TRNSFRMTN Version)
3. Lose You Tonight (Hollola Tapes)
4. Salt In Our Wounds (John Fryer Mix)
5. Close To The Flame (Hollola Tapes)
6. Please Don't Let It Go (Hollola Tapes)
7. Pretending (Kevin Shirley Mix)
8. Love You Like I Do (Hollola Tapes)

CD4: Love Metal (2003)
1. Buried Alive By Love
2. The Funeral Of Hearts
3. Beyond Redemption
4. Sweet Pandemonium
5. Soul On Fire
6. The Sacrament
7. This Fortress Of Tears
8. Circle Of Fear
9. Endless Dark
10. The Path
Bonus Tracks:
1. Buried Alive By Love (Live at El Teatro Flores BS.AS. MMXIV)
2. Beyond Redemption (Vinnfox Relics)
3. Circle Of Fear (Vinnfox Relics)
4. Soul On Fire (Live at Semifinal HKI MMIII)
5. Endless Dark (Vinnfox Relics)
6. The Sacrament (ACSTC Pascha MMXIV)
7. This Fortress Of Tears (Vinnfox Relics)
8. The Funeral Of Hearts (Live at Helldone MMXIII SJK)


Hailing from Helsinki, Finland and crafting a mix of metal, goth and hard rock they called "love metal," H.I.M. -- known early on as His Infernal Majesty -- was founded in 1991 by vocalist Ville Valo, guitarist Mikko "Linde" Lindström, and bassist Mikko "Migé" Paananen. During the band's early years, they released two demos, 1992's unreleased Witches and Other Night Fears, and an untitled 1995 tape that fans christened This Is Only the Beginning; that year, the band also added drummer Juhana Tuomas Rantala to the fold. After signing a record contract with BMG, their first official release was 1996's 666 Ways to Love: Prologue, a Finland-only release limited to 1,000 copies that featured the band's cover of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game."

Greatest Lovesongs, Vol. 666 By the time of the group's first album, 1997's Greatest Lovesongs, Vol. 666, they had shortened their name to H.I.M. and recruited keyboardist Antto Einari Melasniemi. The album earned the band a cult following in their homeland, one that spread to the rest of Europe with 2009's Razorblade Romance. Featuring the single "Join Me in Death" -- which became the best-selling Finnish single in history -- the album topped the German and Finnish charts. When the album was released in the U.S. in 2002, a legal challenge initially resulted in the band going under the HER moniker until they bought the full rights to the H.I.M. name; 1000 copies of the American version of Razorblade Romance were pressed with the HER name. H.I.M. also won a fan in professional skater Bam Margera, who took every opportunity to promote the band’s music on his popular MTV series Viva La Bam. In 2001, Valo, Lindström, and Paananen formed the side project Daniel Lioneye, which featured Lindström on vocals and guitars, Valo on drums, and Paananen on bass; the project's debut album The King of Rock 'n' Roll arrived that September. H.I.M. also released its third album, Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights, around that time. The first album to feature keyboardist Emerson Burton, it once again topped the German and Finnish charts. H.I.M. returned two years later with Love Metal, the band's first album to display their "heartagram" logo on the cover instead of a picture of Valo. Margera directed the video for one of Love Metal's singles, "Buried Alive by Love." The following year, H.I.M.'s first compilation, And Love Said No: The Greatest Hits '97-'04 arrived, featuring the title track and a cover of Neil Diamond's "Solitary Man" as exclusive songs.
Dark Light The band's 2005 album Dark Light marked their true breakthrough in the U.S., reaching the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 and becoming the first Finnish album to achieve gold sales status in America. Another pair of compilations, Uneasy Listening, Vol. 1 (which featured the band's lighter songs) and Uneasy Listening, Vol. 2 (which featured their heavier songs), arrived in 2006 and 2007 respectively. H.I.M.'s sixth album Venus Doom also arrived in 2007, and featured the singles "The Kiss of Dawn" and "Bleed Well"; the album was nominated for a Best Boxed/Special Limited-Edition Packaging Grammy that year, but lost to What It Is!: Funky Soul and Rare Grooves. The group's first live album/DVD package Digital Versatile Doom was released in 2008, and H.I.M. returned with new material two years later with Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice, which the band recorded in Los Angeles with producer Matt Squire. Later that year, the remix album SWRMXS was made available as a digital release and as an exclusive CD at Hot Topic stores.
XX: Two Decades of Love Metal In 2011, H.I.M. left Sire/Warner Records and began working on their eighth album, but it was delayed because of a bone condition drummer Gas Lipstick (aka Mika Karppinen) suffered. In August 2012, producer Tim Palmer, who worked with the band on Dark Light and Venus Doom, announced he was working with H.I.M. in London on new material. That October, the compilation XX: Two Decades of Love Metal arrived and featured a new track, a cover of the song "Strange World." The band's eighth album, Tears on Tape, featured mixing work by Palmer and production by Hiili Hiilesmaa; was released in early 2013.