The metal band from Finland, HIM, have announced a vinyl box set and reissues of their back catalog for the fall via the End Records.
According to Billboard, the limited-edition pack, Lashes To Lashes, Lust To Dust: A Vinyl Retrospective '96-'03, will include four albums from HIM's earlier work: 1997's Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666, 1999's Razorblade Romance, 2001's Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights and 2003's Love Metal. The remastered vinyl albums will come with a USB drive of all the songs, including 37 additional tracks (Click here to pre-order the bundle).
Individual titles will be released in specialty formats including deluxe discs in a velvet case, standard vinyl LPs and colored double-LPs, each with its own color (666 in red, Razorblade in magenta, Deep Shadows in silver and Love Metal in gold).
"We feel truly blessed to have our sonic offspring of yore being given a new lease on life in the U.S. by the End Records, the home for many of our aural idols, both old and new," frontman Ville Valo said. "The infamous love metal archives have been extensively scoured by us for rare, exclusive and downright scary musical nuggets for an experience in Finnish melancholy like no other, so please consider yourself warned."
Billboard is currently hosting a bonus track that will be included in the package - a live take of "Right Here In My Arms" from a concert in Buenos Aires this past April.
The band recently announced their Love Metal Archives tour, which will have them performing a few dates in December (see below). Their most recent effort, Tears On Tape, was released last year.
12/09: New York, NY @ Webster Hall
12/10: Boston, MA @ House of Blues
12/11: Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
12/12: Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore
12/16: Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
12/17: Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
12/18: San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
12/19: Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
