[Snowed in this morning. Bleh. Out of sheer boredom I decided to review an album that recently came out that I haven't heard and previously had no intention of hearing. Thanks to an advertisement, that album was HIM's Screamworks. A disclaimer: I've never actually heard a whole HIM album until this point, so just play it safe and assume I'm just making assumptions.]
I think someone told me once that HIM were a metal band, and I was foolish enough to believe them. That was a long time ago, of course. That was back when all the hype was built up from CKY, Jackass, and the Viva La Bam spinoff had Bam Margera hanging out with HIM frontman Ville Valo and throwing heartagrams all over the damn place. I finally heard their music and it didn’t leave any lasting impression on me in the slightest. World moves on and I don’t particularly care.
So today I found myself listening to HIM’s Screamworks: Love In Theory In Practice. To be honest, I set out with the expectations (and maybe the intention?) of absolutely hating this album. I was surprised be the results of the experiment and we can accept our null hypothesis. It doesn’t actually suck.
