This video, which seems to be fairly recent, was posted today at this website. There has also been an audio posted here. Both are in Finnish, but Sineresi from livejournal has translated both… Click below to view translation.

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Tags: Pekka Himanen, Ville Valo Videos

The latest issue of His Infernal Magazine is now online and contains an exclusive interview with Linde. You can view it here. A special thankyou to Rosanna and the Crimson Gate Official Italian Street Team for their great work and to Linde.

A entrevista exclusiva da revista ‘His Infernal Magazine’ feita ao Mikko Lindstrom, melhor conhecido com Linde, está agora disponível em Português! Poderá lê-la na integra clicando  no link abaixo onde diz “read the rest of this entry” . 

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This was how Ville Valo described(*) the album’s  genre on  yesterday’s  Euro Rock Radio interview hosted by CelticAngel. In an interview lasting a little over an hour, and followed by a chatroom (or 2) full of anxious and curious fans, Ville prefered to keep an aura of mystery around the new album, only revealing bits and pieces of information. Enough to keep the fans temporarily satisfied yet curious about the surprises that are to come (and it looks like we’ll be having a few in the very near future). If, on one hand, Ville wasn’t too revealing about the album, on the other hand he was very open when it came to answering the questions sent in by the fans. Some very interesting and amusing questions with answers that…well … you can hear for yourself here at Euro Rock Radio.

Poderão ler a tradução desta entrevista no site do HIM Brasil.

(*) I hope I haven’t misquoted him, if so please correct me:)

 

Tags: Euro Rock Radio Interview, HIM New Album, screamworks, Ville Valo Interview

In the September issue of  Brazilian Magazine Roadie Crew, there’s a 3 page article on HIM, written by Ricardo Campos who interviewed Ville Valo this summer in Helsinki. According to Ricardo he “had the opportunity to speak quietly to Ville, on a sunny Finnish summer day and address issues such as the heavy sound of their last album Venus Doom, of Digital Versatile Doom, the tenth anniversary of the cult album Razorblade Romance, and of course their new studio album, scheduled for next year. With much sense of humor and friendliness, the singer and composer was explicit in his answers and revealed alot of information that will certainly be of great value to his fans.”

For more information and a snapshot of the 3 page article, click here and select “him” from the top right of the page.

UPDATE! I contacted Ricardo Campos (who, by the way, turns out to be a very cool guy)  about the possibility of sending the magazine to other countries outside of Brazil. Along with the information, he also allowed to pass on his twitter page if anyone wishes to contact him. Check out his band blog here where he also mentions his trip to Helsinki and his meeting with Ville Valo.

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There’s another update from Euro Rock Radio regarding HIM Night, here.

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There’s an article about HIM at the Consequence of Sound Website. It doesn’t mention anything new about the new album except what is already known, but it’s an interesting read and of course it’s good to know that there are people writing about HIM – in this case, Lloyd Poast.

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There has been some additional information posted on their website regarding your questions for Ville… read here

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Once again Ville Valo will be joining Celtic Angel on Euro Rock Radio for another special HIM Night. The show will take place on Tuesday, September 8th at 8pm eastern (7pm central, 5pm pacific and 1am UK time). They are trying to work out a way for some fans to call in and speak to Ville. You can also e-mail your questions for him, some of which will be read on the show.

Here are the full details, posted by Celtic Angel…

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Tags: Euro Rock Radio Interview, HIM News, Radio Interviews, Ville Valo Interview

Radio Nova (a finnish radio station) has uploaded to their website a 3 parte interview with HIM. If you understand Finnish, you can listen to it on the following links: Part 1 – Part2 – Part 3.

If you don’t understand a word, then you’ve missed out on a whole lot! Luckily there are some great friends in the HIM community, and one of them has done us an outstanding favour. Yes, she translated the whole interview and allowed me to post it in the HIM Library! A special thankyou to Sineresi for doing this!  …

Translation Parte I  -  Translation Parte II - Translation Parte III

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HIM and Ville Valo are featured in a documentary called The Promised Land of Heavy Metal. It’s a 90min TV documentary about “the history and philosophy of Heavy Metal and how it became such a big deal in a small country named Finland.” – fore more details visit  http://www.promisedlandofmetal.com/. If you can’t wait and want to buy the DVD right away, click here.

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