Ville Valo's Screamworks

Inked

2010-06-19T05:23:00.000-07:00

Many thanks to Grace for the scans.

Mige :)

2010-06-19T05:20:00.000-07:00

Win a Daniel Lioneye Guitar!

2010-06-01T01:06:00.001-07:00

Click Here for details!

Kerrang!

2010-05-12T02:44:00.000-07:00

New

2010-05-02T17:59:00.001-07:00

Big Cheese

2010-05-02T17:55:00.001-07:00

Ville, Coyote and Mayra

2010-05-02T17:49:00.000-07:00

In Philly

2010-04-17T20:55:00.001-07:00

Ode to Solitude

2010-04-17T20:53:00.000-07:00

Scared to death

2010-04-17T20:51:00.000-07:00

New Hair

2010-04-12T06:18:00.000-07:00

New Kerrang Photoshoot!

2010-03-21T05:48:00.001-07:00

New Photos

2010-03-09T00:52:00.001-08:00

Rockline Radio

2010-03-09T00:51:00.000-08:00

Things got very metal at Zig Zag recently, when members of Finnish rock band H.I.M. visited the studios for an ISDN link up with Los Angeles-based Rockline Radio. Talking with presenter Bob Coburn and callers, the musicians were live via satellite across the United States for an hour and a half. Pictured here are, left to right, bassist Migé, Zig Zag's Declan McCarthy (me), and singer Ville Valo. The band had played the Soundwave Festival as well as other dates across the country.

Yoshiaki "Aki" Takayama

2010-03-02T04:14:00.000-08:00

A very good friend of Ville's passed away at the age of 57 from Cancer. Yoshiaki "Aki" Takayama, was the owner of Ville's favorite Japanese resturant 'Kabuki' located in Helsinki. Rest in peace Yoshiaki!

Kerrang Interview

2010-02-17T22:52:00.000-08:00

In Venere Veritas

2010-02-17T01:17:00.001-08:00

In Venere Veritias Video

At home with Ville Valo

2010-02-11T23:37:00.001-08:00

New Photos

2010-02-09T22:58:00.001-08:00

This one was taken in Ville's very own Living Room

Screamworks Australia

2010-02-09T22:56:00.000-08:00

Screamworks was released yesterday, The 9th of February Australia Wide.
I got my copy! Have you got yours?

Rock Sound Photos

2010-02-07T01:33:00.000-08:00

Metal Hammer Shoot; Mad Hatter

2010-02-05T00:38:00.000-08:00

Shatter Me With Hope

2010-02-03T02:30:00.000-08:00

Watch Here

Sonic Seducer

2010-02-01T02:45:00.001-08:00

February

2010-02-01T02:43:00.000-08:00

It's the first of February! The month of Screamworks! Is everyone ready?

New Misc Pictures

2010-02-01T02:28:00.000-08:00

Soundi

2010-02-01T02:26:00.001-08:00

Inferno

2010-02-01T02:10:00.000-08:00

Video

2010-01-24T02:11:00.001-08:00

Click Here

Orkus

2010-01-24T02:09:00.001-08:00

Zillo

2010-01-24T02:08:00.001-08:00

New Kerrang

2010-01-24T02:07:00.001-08:00

New Look

2010-01-24T02:06:00.001-08:00

Heartagram.com has a new look! Check it out http://www.heartagram.com/home

Like St Valentine

2010-01-24T00:10:00.001-08:00

HERE!

Heartkiller Video

2010-01-14T03:28:00.000-08:00

Yes! The Heartkiller video is out, I know it was released a few days ago but I haven't been able to get to a computer. Apologies and Enjoy!

Heartkiller Photoshoot

2010-01-06T22:40:00.001-08:00

Oh hell yeah, photos from the set for the new HIM video, Heartkiller.

Photoshoot

2010-01-06T22:38:00.000-08:00

New Kerrang

2010-01-06T22:34:00.001-08:00

[photos from CyanideSun]

Iltalehti.fi

2010-01-06T22:20:00.001-08:00

New Interviews

2010-01-01T03:18:00.001-08:00

I have two new Interviews for you.

http://www.iltalehti.fi/nettiv/?12887195
http://www.iltalehti.fi/nettitv/?12886762

2010

2010-01-01T03:13:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

To Start off the year, what better way than to see a live video of Heartkiller and Scared To Death being played at Helldone.

Ending the year

2009-12-26T00:23:00.000-08:00

Hope you all had a great Christmas, this will be my last post of the year. Next year will be better, HIM on tour and Screamworks coming out, it's going to be great! Have a very Happy New Year Sweethearts, See you in 2010!

Helsingin Sanomat Photoshoot

2009-12-23T01:07:00.001-08:00

Screamworks Review

2009-12-23T01:05:00.000-08:00

First Impressions is a segment where we let you into our early thoughts on a highly anticipated album, This week, we have our early views on HIM’s Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice. It drops February 9th, 2010.
Though the first single ["Heartkiller"] from HIM’s upcoming 7th studio album, Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice was just released to the masses less than 72 hours ago, the UTG offices have been jamming to the group’s most inpsired effort in years for over a week now!
For those of you already familiar with the band, you’ll be happy to learn that HIM is still HIM only now they have more energy and seemingly more enthusiasm about their material than we’ve seen in awhile. Tracks like the haunting “Disarm Me” or the heavy, heavy “Like St. Valentine” pulsate with heartache and musicianship like no other band today is capable of achieving. In fact, much of the album booms with this nearly unfathomable scale of song structure and composition that is destined to set the bar for all other 2010 rock releases to follow. There’s not only your normative dark, ambient tones over fuzzed/distorted guitars, but there’s also elaborate orchestral sections, blazing solos, and so much more that I don’t want to give away just yet as we still have to post a review of the entire album.
For those who only know the group through Bam Margera or perhaps have never actually listened to the band, now is the time to jump on the bandwagon. Once this album impacts, I think everyone will be vying for a piece of these young Finnish rock legends.
For now though, just know this: Screamworks is a heavy, romantic, dark, evil, beautiful, and breathtaking work of art that you definitely won’t want to miss.

Limited Edition Screamworks

2009-12-23T00:52:00.000-08:00

SPECIAL EDITION 2 CD WITH LIMITED NUMBERED SCREEN PRINT

SPECIAL EDITION 2 CD INCLUDES:
-Full Screamworks: Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice
-Acoustic bonus disc entitled "Baudelaire in Braille"

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Limited number of screen prints entitled 'SAINT SCREAM'
Screen print is hand pressed by Two Rabbits Studio
No two screen prints are alike

Available only at Heartagram.com
ONLY A LIMITED AMOUNT OF THIS BUNDLE!

If your country's pre-order is listed here or on the other product page, your pre-order will be made available soon!

To receive you order on or around street date you must place your order by Jan. 29, 2010

$34.99 for USA

€29.99 for Europe

Other countries will be available later.

Ville Valo wishes you a Very Happy Christmas!

2009-12-23T00:51:00.000-08:00

Beautiful!

2009-12-16T04:33:00.001-08:00

Ville Valo presents the new HIM Helldone contest 2010!

2009-12-16T04:32:00.000-08:00

Win a Party with HIM

2009-12-10T01:16:00.000-08:00

Villes New Tattoo

2009-12-07T21:59:00.000-08:00

Here is Ville Valo's new tattoo

and the photo of Klaus Kinski that inspired him

2006 Interview

2009-12-07T21:23:00.000-08:00

This is an old interview I came across on the roadrunner records website, I find no problem with it, but the people leaving comments are extreme, angry, obscene and violent. Pardon my language but it is really fucking upsetting to see what these individuals have wrote.
I shall leave a link HERE directing you to the comments, for now, enjoy the interview :)

May 28, 2006

Years of hard work have launched Finland’s HIM from a band with a modest cult following in the United States into the mainstream. With some help perhaps from their “Heartagram” logo, HIM has become a household name among hard rock and metal fans. At the band’s stop at the 2006 HFStival in Columbia, Md., frontman Ville Valo spoke to Jason Price of Live-Metal.net about the band's song writing process, the status of the band's next album, the struggles of touring in the United States and more. In the end, Valo squashes the solo career rumors and discovers that all roads lead to Black Sabbath.

Live-Metal: What is the biggest misconception about HIM?

Ville Valo: That we are miserable bastards. A lot of people think that we play really melancholy music, people think that we are really miserable. Actually, you know, I think that it is a very cathartic thing. You get your shit into the music and you can be a happy person outside of it, and eat ice cream and listen to the birds sing! [laughs] And watch Jim Carrey movies.

Are you a big fan of Jim Carrey?

No, I hate him. No, I hate comedies. [laughs]

How do you feel that you have evolved as a band through the years?

It is hard to say how we have evolved because I have known the bass player and the guitar player since I was nine years old. So we have grown up together and we were playing in different bands. When we started out we were kids and now we are getting into our mid-life, our mid-life crisis type of thing happening [laughs]. You know the more you do, the better you get, hopefully!

How did the “Heartagram” logo, so heavily associated with the band, come to be?

Let's see. I am turning 30, so it was like, about nine years and seven months ago when I turned twenty. I always draw things, so I was drawing and waiting for the rest of the guys to come to my apartment with kegs of beer and getting ready to start celebrating me turning into a man, so closer to one, and I just drew it down. I have always loved Led Zeppelin, their four symbols on their fourth album and Rob Zombie and White Zombie's visuals and stuff like that. I always wanted to make a symbol for our band, and then we got it.

You have had a slow build in the United States. As you have toured the U.S. for the past few years, how has touring changed you?

Well to be brutally frank, touring in the States is a pain in the ass every now and then because the travel is really, really heavy, especially on this tour. We just flew in from Seattle, tomorrow we are flying to New Orleans, so it is like zig zag, zig zag, zig zag. The distances are so long compared to Europe. Europe is a lot easier. It is like maybe 200 miles a night. You have a bit more time to hang out and sleep better and stuff like that. This is heavy duty traveling all the time. With Dark Light being the first album properly released here, we have been doing some press for it and it's being played on the radio now, thank God. Of course it has changed the vibe. A lot more people know who we are.

What was the biggest challenge in making Dark Light?

In making an album, there are always a lot of little tiny challenges. On Dark Light, I think that the biggest challenge was to try and sing the background vocals while they were shooting a Playboy video at the same spot where we were recording. It was pretty hard because all we could see was naked ladies running about so it was really hard to concentrate.

Understandably! How long did it take to write the album?

I write constantly, so it may take two months to record and a month to mix it. I write all the time, so maybe four years. I usually write a lot of stuff that is not necessarily ready and we start working on it later on. We are not one of those bands that would go into a pre-production stage and write everything there. A lot of American bands, for example, do it.

What is the typical song-writing process for HIM?

I have a hangover and sit down on my bed, I have an acoustic guitar and start strumming and pretending that I am Neil Young. Then we put on the distortion pedals and we rape the song. That's what we do!

How many songs will you normally write in preparation for an album?

Only the good ones. I hate songwriters that write 100 songs for an album and pick up the 10 best, because it is a fucking waste of time. We try and write the stuff that feels really good and we are sure that we want to record it. So if there are 12 tracks on an album, maybe 14 all together.

After listening to HIM, what do you want people to walk away with?

Walk away with the understanding that all roads lead to Black Sabbath in the realm of rock n' roll.

For those how haven't seen HIM live, how would you describe it?

Umm ... We are like a very miserable version of the Backstreet Boys.

You used to do a cover of the Backstreet Boys.

Back in the day we did, yeah. Actually we played "Larger Than Life" at a couple of festivals. We wanted to piss off some goth fans. It was pretty funny to see guys like that know the chorus and be singing and dancing along to it.

What are some of your favorite songs to play live?

Well that is the good thing about being in this band. It differs from day to day because at some places people prefer some songs and when you are playing live it is supposed to be an interaction thing happening between the crowd and the band. So it keeps on changing everyday. That is the only reason to do it or it would be boring.

Do you get a different energy from playing a small club versus a bigger venue?

Well you know, thank God, we use so many strobe lights and heavy lights that I can't see shit nowadays anyway, so it doesn't really matter. I just see the three first rows.

Your music translates very well acoustically. Any plans for a possible future acoustic release?

No, well, no. Umm. Fucking hell, no. I think that there are so many good acts doing great acoustic stuff now and our forte is doing what we do, so not necessarily. Maybe we will incorporate a bit more of acoustic sections in our music in the future, but no, it would be boring. I hated the "Unplugged" series.

Have you started working on your next album?

Yeah. We have about eight songs that I am working on at the particular moment.

So you have been writing while on the road?

Yeah, I carry my guitar with me, so I try to read and write and do everything as much as possible.

What does the future hold for HIM as a band? I have heard that you have contemplated some solo work in the future.

Well, no, no no. I have a few more Pink Floyd-ish things that I have been writing in the past, but we will probably incorporate that into HIM's music, as well. Because at the end of the day when I start writing a song, it always ends up being on our album.

What do you think about the state of rock music today?

I think that the state of rock music is really good. I think there are a lot of good bands that we have had the pleasure of touring with, like a band from Seattle called Aiden on this tour and they're great. Kill Hannah's new album is really good. The Strokes new album is really good, the latest one. I think that there is a lot of good happening, but people think that rock is dead. But it has never went away.

You guys have been on the road for a while now, and toured relentlessly. How has life on the road affected you and your music?

The more you tour, the more liberating it becomes. You don't think about the technical aspect of it anymore. You just have fun. It is a bit more loose, and the hangovers are worse. That is what it does to you! [laughs]

Any stories from your life on the road that you might want to share?

Plenty, but most of it is very X-rated. [laughs] You know, the normal stuff, just watch Spinal Tap and it has all happened to everybody who has played in a rock band and been touring.

Have you ever had any "Spinal Tap" moments onstage?

We, you know, I am always losing myself. I never do soundchecks, so I never know where the stage is, so I always keep on fucking that up. I always walk in the wrong direction. We've had most of it. We never had the cocoons where our bass player couldn't get out and we never had Stonehenge. The rest is very close. [laughs]

What was the first album that you bought?

The year was '84 or '85 it was Animalize by KISS. I still have the vinyl.

What about the last album you bought?

The She Wants Revenge album.

Aside from that, what else are you listening to?

I am listening to Killing Joke and Kill Hannah and everything that starts with a "Kill." I don't listen to a lot of music. I think that nowadays the best music is books. So I am reading a lot of Chuck Palahniuk. I think that is more inspiring than listening to a lot of rock bands or pop bands or whatever. And Damian Marley.

And finally, when do you think Chinese Democracy will be released?

You know, hopefully never. I haven't heard the songs that leaked onto the Internet, but somebody told me that they were shit. I think that they should either do a reunion or you should call it a day.

Is there anything else you’d like to add?

Ummm ... No! [laughs]

Heartkiller on iTunes

2009-12-07T21:12:00.001-08:00

The wait grows shorter and shorter... "Heartkiller", the brand new single from Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice", will be available at iTunes in most of Europe this Monday, December 7. US, Canada, Latin America on December 8, Greece on December 10, France on December 14, The UK on February 1, and in Germany on February 5. Mark your calendars~

TRL Live Germany

2009-12-07T04:59:00.001-08:00

New Picture

2009-12-07T04:04:00.000-08:00

New Video

2009-12-05T21:35:00.001-08:00

Heartkiller Lyrics

2009-12-05T03:36:00.001-08:00

Farewell heartless world
I'll sent you a postcard burnt
In the flames you've tried so hard
To extinguish with the fear of failing.
I'll write down everything I have learned
And edit it to a single word...LOVE
For you I'm waiting anticipating...

Sparks will fly
Beneath the Luna alight
Lazarus at Frankenstein's
Babe I'll be a flatliner for a HEART KILLER.
A little we die
Above the lesser light
For you I'm open wide
Babe I'll be a flatliner for a HEART KILLER.

HEART KILLER...

Top hats off to the return
Of the beat to lick a wound to
Cursed fore some and blessed for a few.
It doesn't have to make any sense at all
Come hither and we'll fall ... in LOVE,
For LOVE I'm crawling out of patience baby...

Sparks will fly
Beneath the Luna alight
Lazarus at Frankenstein's
Babe I'll be a flatliner for a HEART KILLER.
A little we die
Above the lesser light
For you I'm open wide
Babe I'll be a flatliner for a HEART KILLER.

Paint all your sorrows for me to sing:
HEART KILLER
Draw your pain and hear me hum it out.

Sparks will fly
Beneath the Luna alight
Lazarus at Frankenstein's
Babe I'll be a flatliner for a HEART KILLER.
A little we die
Above the lesser light
For you I'm open wide
Babe I'll be a flatliner for a HEART KILLER.

Cooking With Burton

2009-12-04T18:37:00.000-08:00

Burton cooks, speaking in Finnish. Watch Here.

Photoshoot

2009-12-04T18:31:00.001-08:00

Heartkiller

2009-12-04T04:25:00.000-08:00

Heartkiller Myspace

2009-12-04T01:13:00.000-08:00

The full version of Heartkiller is now on Myspace!

Australia Shows

2009-12-03T05:04:00.000-08:00

They are All Ages now!
Go buy your tickets at metro :)

New Ville Picture

2009-11-30T23:54:00.000-08:00

London Show

2009-11-30T23:50:00.000-08:00

February 8th sees the hotly anticipated release of HIM's new album ‘Screamworks: Love In Theory & Practice’

To celebrate HIM are playing a very special Valentine’s Day gig at London’s Garage that offers a rare opportunity to see the band in an intimate environment for the perfect alternative Valentines Day!

Admittance to the February 14th show is provided solely by a brand new t-shirt design made exclusively for the event!
Strictly limited to just 600 copies (one for each attendee), the t-shirt is sure to be a valued collector item and a badge of honor for HIM’s hardcore fans.

Entry to the show is only available here on ukundercurrent via an exclusive bundle featuring:
- The brand new album
- The exclusive collectors T-Shirt
- Entry to the show

If you order a bundle you will also be able to buy an additional T-Shirt (and thus show entry) for your friend or valentine!

Heartkiller Preview

2009-11-29T20:51:00.000-08:00

View a 30 second clip to the new single Heartkiller!

HIM 18+

2009-11-29T17:16:00.001-08:00

With the huge amount of underage HIM fans, there has been some argument that the Australian Sydney and Melbourne tour should be an All-Ages concert. To try and make this happen a petition has been created, if you care you would sign it. Even if you're not going or if you're in another country, put yourself in the shoes of these people and think of how you would feel. Thank You :)

'Heartkiller' Single Cover

2009-11-29T17:12:00.000-08:00

HIM Brag About New Album

2009-11-29T17:11:00.000-08:00

HIM frontman Ville Valo has told Rock Sound how much effort was put into the creation of the band's new album 'Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice':

"I’ve just been working, no time in pubs honest," he said recently. "I've had no time to do anything besides this album. I’m not shitting you because I was on a personal mission to find out how much energy you can put into an album before you break. I didn’t break, but I was on the verge of it more than once. It was important to really live with the ideas rather than just going with the flow as we have in the past. The result is, I hope, something that will shake peoples’ asses."

HIM Soundwave Sideshows Australia

2009-11-26T05:01:00.000-08:00

The purveyors of ‘Love Metal’ and masters of dark atmospheric music, HIM, re-defined the gothic rock/metal movement and no one comes close to their heavy, ethereal sounds. Driven by lyrics that spin tales of fatalistic love and depression, it’s perpetually heartsick frontman Ville Valo’s vampiric crooning that ultimately gives the band its fangs.

After spreading their gothic wings over the masses it was the follow up to the platinum selling ‘Dark Light’, ‘Venus Doom’ that saw HIM rocking with fury with Ville’s stunning vocals and lyrical poetry moving from raging wail to deep baritone with consummate ease. “With every album that he writes HIM mainman Ville Valo gets closer to his dream fusion of Metallica, Depeche Mode and Ozzy, while still remembering to add some distinctly gothic beauty.” – Uncut

With a new album on the way in February we are thrilled to announce that HIM will be performing 2 clubs show only on the back of their Soundwave 2010 appearances.

TICKETS ON SALE THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER, 9AM

TUESDAY 23 FEBRUARY SYDNEY, THE FORUM – 18+

THURSDAY 25 FEBRUARY MELBOURNE, THE HI-FI – 18+

More Kerrang!

2009-11-25T22:38:00.000-08:00

Click to get a larger view

New Photo

2009-11-25T19:23:00.001-08:00

HIM have just released a new photo!

New Kerrang

2009-11-24T17:40:00.001-08:00

For those of you who haven't got it yet, Ville did a small Interview with Kerrang.

In what way is this album the story of what’s happened to you since the last album?

Ville Valo: “Actually this one is probably the most direct, diary-esque, in the sense that maybe through me fucking up a lot of my long term relationships in the past through excessive partying and just being a slob that I kind of lost faith when I stopped drinking, and I felt that there was no chance for a guy like me to find equilibrium or be at peace, or balance between those things. While starting to write for this album, I was on the verge of falling head over heels for a person. So I captured that moment on the album. Unfortunately I’m bad at saying it. I never really had the chance of telling her that. So she’ll hear the album a bit later and know how I felt then. It’s one way of doing it.”

I think people like very autobiographical music, like Nine Inch Nails. It feels like a genuine insight into that person or band.

Ville: “I’ve never been a big fan of Nine Inch Nails but Trent Reznor was very direct… you can’t diss him because if he feels like that it’s his right to feel like that. As opposed to writing about something a bit more obscure or… historical things. I just try – in pseudo-poetry – to… there are really direct autobiographical things in there in people, places and times. I like it, because it makes me like a naked invisible man. In the middle of the street…”

…with a butcher wearing nothing but wellies…

Ville: “People can always see the wellies, ‘Oh no! the Welly Man!’ ha ha. Welly Wallo! Ha ha.”

HIM have now revealed their new album's art work and that the new album will be released on February 8th.

(Picture from the latest Kerrang issue.)

Screamworks Drawings

2009-11-24T17:34:00.000-08:00

Me and my friend Matt did a drawing of the Screamworks album cover. Mine is the first one, the one without a Heartagram and the Don Vito eye.

Screamworks Tracklist (Updated)

2009-11-24T17:33:00.000-08:00

A couple changed have been made, and last time I didn't have them in order. This is the official track list.

1. In Venere Veritas
2. Scared To Death
3. Heartkiller
4. Dying Song
5. Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)
6. Love, The Hardest Way
7. Katherine Wheel
8. In The Arms Of Rain
9. Ode To Solitude
10. Shatter Me With Hope
11. Acoustic Funeral (For Love In Limbo)
12. Like St. Valentine
13. The Foreboding Sense Of Impending Happiness

Single

2009-11-24T17:25:00.000-08:00

The first single for Screamworks has been announced, the song 'Heartkiller' will be released on February 1st, 2010 (Or so they say). =] Worldwide release date? I have no idea, let's just keep our fingers crossed.

2010 Callender

2009-11-23T15:52:00.000-08:00

2010 HIM Wall Calender available at the Heartagram store. Ville showing off some new tattoo's as well?

Screamworks Current Release dates.

2009-11-23T15:42:00.000-08:00

UK and France on February 8th
USA on February 9nd
Japan on February 10th
Germany on February 12th

New Album Cover!

2009-11-22T23:50:00.000-08:00

New album cover has been released!

Ville has already started rocking a shirt with it.

Kerrang

2009-11-21T23:25:00.000-08:00

Ville will be in the next issue of Kerrang talking about his inspiration for Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice

Happy Birthday Ville Valo!

2009-11-21T23:17:00.000-08:00

Happy 33rd Birthday Ville Valo!

Ville Valo Arrested

2009-11-17T23:34:00.000-08:00

This is old old news! But it's an interesting read, and brings back the memories.

According to the Finnish tabloid newspaper Iltalehti, HIM Frontman Ville Valo was taken into custody by the Finnish police over the weekend for allegedly threatening to kill his neighbour and resisting arrest.

At approximately 2:30 in the morning Monday morning (Feb. 6, 2006), Ville allegedly became belligerent and violent while spending time at his apartment building, which is located in the Eira district of Helsinki. For reasons that are unclear, Ville is said to have thrown a flower pot at his neighbour's door, after which he was confronted by his neighbor and a brawl ensued. The police were called by the neighbour's wife and two officers came to the scene but were unable to calm Ville down, who had to be restrained with handcuffs.

Ville Valo, 29, spent the night in police custody and reportedly admitted threatening the neighbour but failed to provide a clear motive for his actions.

No injuries were reported in the incident, although the neighbour's door did suffer some minor damage. (Oh Dear!)

According to Iltalehti, Valo was involved in previous disturbances within the same housing organization.

The neighbours refused to comment the issue, according to the report.

In Venere Veritas

2009-11-16T22:23:00.000-08:00

Ville is a big wine drinker, the phrase "In Venere Veritas" (One of the songs coming on the new album) sound very similar to the Latin phrase "In Vino Veritas" which means 'In Wine there is Truth' has had it's words played around with (By Ville) and the phrase now as far as I can tell means 'In sexual desire there is truth'... Oh Ville :P

Serious as Dog Dirt

2009-11-16T22:00:00.000-08:00

Here is part of Bam Margera's book Serious as Dog Dirt

I don't take any credit for the photos and scans.

MySpace

2009-11-16T21:44:00.000-08:00

HIM have updated their page on MySpace! Go look at it, it's awesome.

http://www.myspace.com/heartagram

Ville Valo: This Is Our Most Sexual Album

2009-11-16T21:38:00.000-08:00

Lyrically, it’s the most sexual one, the most horny one, we’ve ever made. The horny and the horned. Like the Impaled Nazarene song. It’s got that and a sense of immediacy: ‘I want it now, now, now’. It’s not about being poetic or forlorn about something that is about to happen, it’s actually about something that is happening at this very moment in time.

I like the immediacy of it. There’s a lot of information put in short songs and they don’t let go. That was the whole vibe for me. You should have seen me working the vocals out in the middle of the night, amongst my taxidermy owls in the tower screaming my guts out, unable to stop until 9am and then sleeping on a couch for two hours before starting again. So the whole process of the album is very close to that mental boner that just didn’t go away.

Ville Valo's Castle

2009-11-16T21:21:00.000-08:00

From my understanding this is where Mr Valo lives.
I've put up some pictures so check out how this Rockstar lives.

There is no surprise that he lives in a Castle, But isn't this the most beautiful house you have ever seen.

Kari Valo on Fathers Day

2009-11-16T01:23:00.001-08:00

(click on image to read)

Roughly translates to:

He was an ace of a child: nice and lively. Not that he’s tongue-tied yet either. He hasn’t caused massive misery. When he yakked as a baby , I put on Somerjoki and danced until he fell asleep in my arms. I have been a hands-on father, I haven’t watched my children from afar.

I should have spent more time with the kids, but I had to go earn some money too. It would have been easier if I had been born with a silver spoon in my mouth, then wouldn’t have had to work that much.

I am proud of my children. They have grown up to be pretty upright people, even though during the years they would have had the opportunity to end up in any kind of a crowd. Of course as a parent you are always worried because there are all kinds of people in the industry.

His success can be seen in the fact that my shop is visited by quite a lot of foreigners who come here to a pilgrim age. They are friendly and polite and come to talk to me as if I was a professor.

He will be an ace of a father. I hope he will have more than one child. I hope the one he ends up marrying will be an upright person.

What do I hope for him... I hope he has enough skin for all the tattoos he wants to take.

Screamworks Tracklist

2009-11-15T22:10:00.002-08:00

I have the current list of songs that are to be used for Screamworks.

01. Ode To Solitude
02. Scared To Death
03. Heart Killer
04. Dying Song
05. Disarm Me
06. Love The Hardest Way
07. Katherine Wheel
08. In The Arms Of Rain
09. Shatter Me With Hope
10. In Venere Veritas
11. Acoustic Funeral
12. St. Valentine
13. Smother A Heart

I don't know about you, but this sounds Incredible.
Track 10 made me happy, I have the saying tattooed on my leg.

Ville Valo update

2009-11-15T22:10:00.001-08:00

I was really excited hearing this. Ville mentioned that he was starting the tour in Australia, Which is the country in which I live. To have the greatest band ever, come to Australia to start off their new album. Although they will be playing at the Soundwave Festival which I am a bit unhappy about, I would much rather have them do their own show.

Starting Out

2009-11-15T21:27:00.000-08:00

Hello Sweethearts. I have created this new blog to support and welcome the upcoming H.I.M album 'Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice' due to be released worldwide on February 14, 2010 (Valentines Day :]). I have also started this blog to just rant, rave, and put up as much news as I can find out about my favourite band. I will be looking forward to seeing how this turns out :].