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Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 5 critic reviews
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Album Info
Label: Sire/Warner Bros.
Release Date: 09 February 2010
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
Summary
Finnish goth-rock outfit, HIM returns with its seventh studio album on Sire Records.
Also By This Artist: Dark Light Venus Doom
Also On The Web: MySpace Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
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Rock Sound
This is a solid album, rife with brooding love metal and big choruses, but while this is HIM’s most accessible album to date it’s also the most unpalatable, as Ville takes one step too many towards self-satire.
Read Full Review >Alternative Press
When the band are a little more concrete and less spooky, the results are especially compelling, but Screamworks is ultimately successful in its blending of melody and muscle. [Mar 2010, p.90]
Absolute Punk (Staff reviews)
If I lived completely under a rock, I'd say Screamworks, and HIM in general, would hit Twilight tweeners straight in the heart with its dark, dismal and dire themes, but the more mature crowd would see the excessive sentimentality as almost self-parodying.
Read Full Review >Spin
Old-school romantic Ville Valo croons as often as he screams, so that even when aiming for the stylistic median, a bit of local weirdness oozes forth to make Screamworks more interesting than it's designed to be.
Read Full Review >All Music Guide
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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.7 (out of 10) based on 31 User Votes
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