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Goth rock has a real image problem on its hands. What started as a grim little offshoot of post-punk has, through dozen of pop-cultural permutations too random to understand, evolved into a style as confused as its typical teenage listener: Juggling the contradictory menace of the Antichrist Superstar and the wallowing, down-in-the-dumps misery of half-assed teenage suicide attempts. Neither, really, is all that interesting.

Although HIM (shorthand for His Infernal Majesty) isn’t quite as confused as, say neo-Goth icons like Marilyn Manson or AFI, Love Metal sure can’t muster the same sort of cold dread as Bauhaus, the graying misery of early-years Cure or the brooding discontent of Christian Death. Heck, even the metal-addicted rockers can’t come close to comparing to The Sisters of Mercy’s riffs. Instead, the Finnish band, take the style-before-substance approach of bubblegum Goth and crank the volume to 10.

http://www.aversion....s.cfm?f_id=1931

I hate how those fuckers are calling themselves metal.

Apparently Ville Valo wants to follow in the wake of the Sisters of Mercy.

A tip, my dear Ville - you're not going to do it by whimpering about love. The only love songs the Sisters ever wrote demanded it.

HIM don't sound too bad, but I can't listen to more than half a dozen songs without feeling like I've only heard one.

Nemesys, on Feb 12 2005, 05:16 AM, said:

All Goth music is pretty much the same,singing about hurt,love,blood,evil and anything else they think is so called*evil*,who knows what the Hell they were thinking when they wrote the songs,lol.
Darkvamp6791

This post has been edited by Darkvamp6791: 12 February 2005 - 07:33 AM

Oh, what fools these mortals be... go out, get yourself a copy of Floodland and see if you still believe that. If you do then I'm afraid there's no helping you...