Love Metal is HIM's fourth album, released on 14 April 2003. The digipak

Digipak

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 edition of this album also includes the bonus track "Love's Requiem". This is HIM's first album that made the band popular to a wider public.

This is HIM's first album that does not feature Ville Valo

Ville Valo

Ville Hermanni Valo is a Finnish singer, songwriter and frontman of the Finnish rock band HIM. He has received the "Golden God" award in 2004 by the heavy metal magazine Metal Hammer. Valo has a baritone vocal range. Valo was ranked number 80 in Hit Paraders Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time...

 on the cover. Instead, it features the heartagram, the band's logo.

Valo had grown tired of reporters constantly asking what he considered HIM's genre was. HIM titled this album Love Metal as a response for that question.

On 1 February 2005 the regular edition of this album was released in the United States

United States

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 under Universal Records

Universal Records

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 licensed by Jimmy Franks Recording Company

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.

The exclusive eleventh track, "Love's Requiem", was supposed to be released on the standard version of the album, but it pushed the album beyond the one hour mark, so Ville decided to put it on the Digipak version of the album. The album sold more than 1,000,000 copies worldwide.

Track listing

All songs are composed by Ville Valo.

1. "Buried Alive by Love
   Buried Alive By Love
   "Buried Alive By Love" is a song by Finnish band HIM, released in 2003. It is the first track and second single from the album Love Metal. The music video was directed by Bam Margera. Margera has also directed music videos for 3 other songs including, "The Sacrament", "Solitary Man" and "And Love...
   
   " – 5:01
2. "The Funeral of Hearts
   The Funeral of Hearts
   "The Funeral of Hearts" is a song by Finnish band HIM, released in 2003. It is the second track and first single from the album Love Metal. Known as one of HIM's most popular songs, it is usually used to close live shows....
   
   " – 4:29
3. "Beyond Redemption" – 4:28
4. "Sweet Pandemonium" – 5:46
5. "Soul on Fire" – 4:00
6. "The Sacrament
   The Sacrament
   -Finnish/German digipak - EP release:-UK version Vol. 1 Enhanced CD:-UK version Vol. 2 Enhanced CD :-UK version Vol. 3:...
   
   " – 4:32
7. "This Fortress of Tears" – 5:47
8. "Circle of Fear" – 5:27
9. "Endless Dark" – 5:35
10. "The Path" – 7:44
11. "Love's Requiem" * – 8:36

Bonus Videos:

1. "The Funeral of Hearts: (Video)" – 3:40
2. "Buried Alive By Love" (Video)*" - 4:05

• * - Digipack/European iTunes bonus track

Love Metal Promo Sampler CD

1. "Buried Alive By Love
   Buried Alive By Love
   "Buried Alive By Love" is a song by Finnish band HIM, released in 2003. It is the first track and second single from the album Love Metal. The music video was directed by Bam Margera. Margera has also directed music videos for 3 other songs including, "The Sacrament", "Solitary Man" and "And Love...
   
   " – 5:01
2. "The Funeral of Hearts
   The Funeral of Hearts
   "The Funeral of Hearts" is a song by Finnish band HIM, released in 2003. It is the second track and first single from the album Love Metal. Known as one of HIM's most popular songs, it is usually used to close live shows....
   
   " – 4:30
3. "Beyond Redemption" – 4:28
4. "Sweet Pandemonium" – 5:46
5. "Soul on Fire" – 4:00
6. "The Sacrament
   The Sacrament
   -Finnish/German digipak - EP release:-UK version Vol. 1 Enhanced CD:-UK version Vol. 2 Enhanced CD :-UK version Vol. 3:...
   
   " – 4:32

B-Sides

Only in the singles

1. "The Funeral of Hearts" (Radio edit)
2. "The Funeral of Hearts" (Album version)
3. "The Funeral of Hearts" (Acoustic version)
4. "Soul on Fire" (Erich Zann's Supernatural remix)
5. "The Funeral of Hearts" (Dr. Dagon's Dub)
6. "Hand of Doom" (Live edit in Turku)
7. "The Sacrament" (Disrhythm Remix)
8. "Buried Alive By Love" (radio edit)
9. "Buried Alive By Love" (live in Helsinki)
10. "Buried Alive By Love" (live)
11. "The Sacrament" (acoustic version)
12. "Buried Alive By Love" (Deliverance version)
13. "The Sacrament" (Dysrhythim Remix)
14. "The Sacrament" (radio edit)

HIM

• Ville Hermanni Valo
  Ville Valo
  Ville Hermanni Valo is a Finnish singer, songwriter and frontman of the Finnish rock band HIM. He has received the "Golden God" award in 2004 by the heavy metal magazine Metal Hammer. Valo has a baritone vocal range. Valo was ranked number 80 in Hit Paraders Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time...
  
   — lead vocals
• Mikko Viljami "Linde" Lindström — lead guitar
  Lead guitar
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• Mikko Henrik Julius "Migé" Paananen
  Mikko Paananen
  Mikko Henrik Julius Paananen , better known as Migé or Migé Amour, is the current and founding bassist of the rock band HIM.-History:...
  
   — bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Janne Johannes "Emerson Burton" Puurtinen
  Janne Puurtinen
  Janne Johannes Puurtinen, better known as Emerson Burton, is the current keyboard-player in the Finnish rock band, HIM. He was born 17 October 1974, in Helsinki. Burton made his second debut as a temporary member of the band at the concert arranged at the Semifinal Club on 12 January 2001...
  
   — keyboards
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• Mika Kristian "Gas Lipstick" Karppinen
  Mika Karppinen
  Mika Kristian Karppinen, better known as Gas Lipstick , is currently the drummer for the rock band HIM. He is also the drummer of Finnish deathgrind band To Separate the Flesh from the Bones, punk band Ääritila and metal band Bendover. He also was a drum tech for Stratovarius at one point and was...
  
   — drums