HIM Freshen Up Older Releases For Reissue

12/11/2014
. (TeamRock Radio) HIM frontman Ville Valo says the band decided to remaster a selection of their older releases as they wanted to freshen up their sound. The Finnish rockers have just released Lashes To Ashes, Lust To Dust: A Vinyl Retrospective '96-'03.

It features their first four albums: Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666, Razorblade Romance, Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights and Love Metal, along with their debut EP 666 Ways To Love: Prologue.

And Valo says while he was happy with the original albums, remastering them gave the band the opportunity to bring their sound up to date. He tells Artisan News: "I don't think there's anything wrong with the albums but the EP was done in 1996, the first album was in 1997, and it was 1999 when we recorded Razorblade Romance.

"That was a long time ago, and that was when the 'loudness wars' started, so people started to master everything so loud that rock albums started lacking dynamics. The best example was Death Magnetic by Metallica. It's terribly loud but it's probably what they went for, and it does sound aggressive, but at least in my ears it wears them out easy." Read more here.

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