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After their expansive album “Venus Doom” released 2 years ago HIM now turn to a completely different path with “Screamworks ….” The new 13 songs are short and precise but packed with ideas. The songs are very catchy over long passages but have enough twists and turns to make sure not to show the whole picture at once when you listen to them for the first time.
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Issue 1295 of Kerrang Magazine brought an extensive 4 page interview with Ville Valo where he enveils some of his most intimate secrets. Be sure to get your hands on this issue… a must have HIM collectors item!
Kerrang! joined Ville Valo in Helsinki to find out more about his latest “emotions, experiences and traumas”. In tomorrows issue of Kerrang! Magazine …stay tuned!
Article in Kerrang! Issue 1294 which also comes with a free calender. Stay tuned for next week’s issue where ‘Ville Valo gets intimate…”
LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
(in Iltaleti Magazine – Dec.31,09)
Since Ville Valo quit drinking, the only interest he has left is music.
HIM frontman Ville Valo, 33, is a changed man. The nights and days spent with dozens of pints of beer seem far away. Sobriety has also shrunk his circle of friends. Only true friends have remained.
- Let’s say that I’ve deleted 190 phone numbers out of 200 from my cell phone, Valo admits.
He regards coolly Jackass star Bam Margera’s concern that Valo has become a total hermit.
It is true though that Ville is not seen in bars anymore. He’s not afraid of falling off the wagon; the reason is that you’re not allowed to smoke freely in bars anymore.
- I have to fool around in my own fantasy worlds, and I can do that just fine in Munkkiniemi, Ville grins.
Ville Valo hasn’t always been in such a good shape as now. Playing with alcohol got out of hand a few years ago, and the rock star, who confesses to being a workaholic, didn’t have time to take a vacation in ten years. The decision to go to rehab at Promises in Malibu in the spring of 2007 changed the direction of Ville’s life.
- It was a kind of a breather. No cell phone, the sun was shining a bit, and I was locked up so that I couldn’t do anything naughty. It was a pretty pleasant prison and a very expensive one, he laughs….
Read full translation by sineresi here
“The difference between this album and the previous is like day and night. Venus Doom was the doomiest moment for the band, even though I loved it, we can’t keep making the same thing over and over. This one is as straight forward as possible. Much faster. there aren’t any ballads” Ville Valo in Rock one magazine.
Rock One Magazine speaks about HIM’s new album Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice. It mentions it’s release date (February 8th) and that it was produced by Matt Squire. It also speaks about their first single Heartkiller and the album cover to which they refer to as ‘curious’.
In the latest issue (1293) of Kerrang! Magazine you can read about the top 50 albums recommended for 2010. Among them is HIM’s ‘Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice’. Kerrang! interviewed Ville Valo about … (login or register to view full entry)
An article from Rock Sound Magazine in which Ville Valo tells how much effort was put into the creation of the band’s new album ‘Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice’ … read full article . There will be more from Ville in the new issue of Rock Sound Magazine, on sale December 2.
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