by
H.I.M.
- Record Label: Sire/Warner Bros.
- Release Date: Feb 9, 2010
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The material sits within the band’s canon well enough to please longtime fans, and listeners looking for some kind of middle ground between Evanescence, late-period Queensrÿche and Fall Out Boy will more than likely find a few wicked gems to hang their heads to.
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Old-school romantic Ville Valo croons as often as he screams, so that even when aiming for the stylistic median, a bit of local weirdness oozes forth to make Screamworks more interesting than it's designed to be.
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Q MagazineWhile his lyrics are lascivious to a point, songs such as "Love," "The Hardest Way" and "Heartkiller" are strictly soft-focus, with any semblance of attitude--or actual sex--air-brushed into radio-friendly oblivion. [Mar 2010, p.102]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 125 out of 144
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Mixed: 1 out of 144
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Negative: 18 out of 144
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Dec 10, 2010
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Aug 12, 2016