I just wanted to let you know that I haven´t updated this site lately because I am working and traveling on business. I hope to have it up and running at full speed again after April 15th. In the meantime you can browse around the HIM Library for lots of other info on the band. For recent updates you can check out their official website or other HIM fansites (view sidebar).
HIM start their US tour with Philadelphia on March 26th. Campus Philly interviewd Ville Valo about their visit to the US and more:
Campus Philly: I’m sure you’ve been asked this a million times, but for our readers who might not know, can you give a little background on the name of the band and how it came about?
Ville Vallo: No ones been asking that in the past gazillion years, so it’s great. We first called our band Black Earth because Black Sabbath was first known as Earth. We’re huge fans… [With the name change], we wanted something similarly horrific for the band. I don’t know where exactly it came from, but someone came up with the name His Infernal Majesty, and at 15-years-old it sounded ridiculously cool.
CP: Why did you decide to go by the abbreviation?
VV: In the 90s when all the churches started to burn in Scandinavia, people started to think we had something to do with it, so we instituted H.I.M.
CP: Your heartagram symbol is everywhere now, from tattoos to shoes. What’s its origin and what does it mean?
VV: The day I turned 20…I was just doodling. I loved the four symbols Led Zeppelin had and White Zombie with Rob [Zombie] had a lot of visual aspects of rock and roll. It’s one of the more fun things for the band and I’m really super proud of it. My dad was an artist and I was brought up appreciating art. I was hoping some of that would rub off on me and I’d get to incorporate it into the band and I’m glad that it has.
CP: Last month, you released your seventh album, Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice, Chapters 1–13. The title is so intricate. What’s the story behind it?
VV: It’s one of those things like the heartagram, it just popped out of my head. I love the word ‘works,’ as in the collected works of an artist, like T.S. Eliot or whoever. And then with ‘scream,’ you think of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” I also thought about Aleister Crowley who wrote kind of a mythology of rock and roll in Magick in Theory and Practice. For me, love and relationships are the magic. They are the unexplainable; at least I can’t explain them in theory or mathematical terms. So I replaced ‘magick’ with ‘love’ because I can’t see any logical explanation for it.
CP: You’re kicking off the U.S. portion of your current tour here in Philadelphia. Is there any particular reason why you decided to start here?
click here for the full interview
HIM “Scared To Death”
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Here’s the new music video for “Scared to Death” from HIM’s latest album “Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice”
In the latest issue of Kerrang! Magazine, Ville Valo talks about his life on the road (and air). A 4 page interview worth reading! Info on how to get your hands on this issue at www.kerrang.com.
Read more about the interview at Valo Daily…
Big Cheese Magazine has posted a (long) sneak preview of their interview with Ville Valo, which will be available in the next issue of Big Cheese. You can view the web exclusive interview here.
After their debut album “The King of Rock’n Roll” which was released only in Finland and Germany, Daniel Lioneye is back! This time around HIM members Linde and Burton alongside Bolton from Enochian Crescent have set out to conquer North America with their new album titled ”Vol.II” set be released on April 27th. You can pre-order the special Daniel Lioneye -Vol.II bundle here
“There are few objects of desire in rock today that rival Ville Valo. His raw ability to turn otherwise gracious and genteel young ladies into a tumbling mass of fawning, squealing sycophants makes him the envy of many a man”(…) – read full review by timephoenix and view photos.
Shockhound is giving away a hand-numbered Edgar Allan Poe lithograph designed and autographed by Ville Valo himself. The winner will also receive a Screamworks totebag and CD and a girl’s heartagram tee, HIM Venus Doom tank and a unisex HIM hoodie. For more details click here.
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