SCREAMWORKS: LOVE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE is HIM"s seventh studio album and the follow-up to 2007"s Venus Doom, which debuted at No. 12 in the U.S. After conquering the rest of the world with chart-topping albums and sold-out tours, Finland"s HIM won over the States with its 2005 U.S. debut, the Top 20 Dark Light. In 2007, Venus Doom elevated the band"s summer-of-love-gone-goth to even harder and heavier heights.