HIM.MyForum.ro ~ Razorblade Romance

date: 24 Jan 2000

Razorblade Romance was recorded at Rockfield Studios, the birthplace of such classics as Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, Oasis' (What's The Story) Morning Glory and, as the band are keen to point out, the debut album of Black Sabbath!

The one (reworked from the 'Greatest Lovesongs' album) cover version on Razorblade Romance is of Chris Isaak's 'Wicked Game'. Their version has layers of hard-edged guitars on it, yet the soul-searching inner qualities of the original song are left intact.
"I could see the image of the movie poster of Gone with the Wind in front of me", Valo smiles.
"With Lemmy embracing Madonna in the sunset."

Who can argue with that?

Tracklisting:

UK Version

01 Your Sweet 666
02 Poison Girl
03 Join Me In Death
04 Right Here In My Arms
05 Bury Me Deep Inside Your Heart
06 Wicked Game
07 I Love You
08 Gone With The Sin
09 Razorblade Kiss
10 Resurrection
11 Death Is In Love With Us
12 Heaven Tonight

Euro Version

01 I Love You
02 Poison Girl
03 Join Me (Album Version)
04 Right Here In My Arms
05 Gone With The Sin
06 Razorblade Kiss
07 Bury me deep inside
08 Heaven Tonight
09 Death Is In Love With Us
10 Resurrection
11 One Last Time

Razorblade Romance
After gaining popularity in Europe, particularly their homeland, HIM released their second album in 1999, titled Razorblade Romance. This is when the band's popularity began to rise, their single "Join Me in Death" from the album reached #1 on the German music charts, selling over 500,000 of this single in two months.

Following this German success they released two more Germany only singles from this album; "Right Here in My Arms" and "Gone With the Sin", which reached #20 and #19 on the charts respectively. Around this time they were also becoming more well known in other parts of Europe, such as the United Kingdom. The album itself reached #1 in both Germany and their native Finland.

In 2002, Razorblade Romance was re-released and put into stores in the United States. HIM was not allowed to use their name for sales because of the American band, HiM, owned the rights to that name. Therefore, they changed the name to HER in the United States. Eventually, they were able to buy the full rights to the name HIM, and copies of the album began to be manufactured with their desired name on the packaging. Only 1000 copies of the album exist with the HER band name, which makes it a rare collectible among fans.

The original working title for Razorblade Romance was in fact "Slippery When Dead" [session], and a (demo) song from this session leaked onto the internet, titled "Too Happy To Be Alive", which is very similar to another song of HIM's, "Death Is In Love With Us". A drum machine was used for this special session due to Patka leaving the band.

:-)

Junior Data inscrierii: 19/Sep/2007 Mesaje: 16

Sunt dementiale melodiile, ador join me in death :wub:

heaven tonight e preferata mea din toate melodiile lor :wub:

..miam puso si pe tel ...awwww...luv it..si oricum nu mai are rost sa zic ca toate sunt super