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HIM CANCELS TOUR DATES TO RECORD NEW ALBUM
HIM have announced the cancellation of their fall tour. The band will not be playing scheduled U.S. shows in favor of entering the recording studio (see canceled dates below).
HIM hope fans will not be let down, but rather will look forward to seeing them back on the road with new songs to share. The band have been steadily writing material for their forthcoming album and are eager to start preliminary rehearsal of very early tracks. HIM have not been able to test any new material due to their busy touring and promotion schedule. This fall will be the first opportunity for the band members to talk and work out new HIM material for a 2007 release!
Singer Ville Valo explains the band's decision: "Our dearest fellowship of the Heartagram, you haven't seen the last of us yet. We just want to keep it fresh for you and stump you with new material. I didn't feel that I could do that without rehearsing some of this stuff that's stuck in my heart. We're happy to have new fans come aboard the ship, but I feel we've got to keep it exciting and new. We've started writing and I can't wait for you guys to hear what we're working on."
The band have spent the last year touring non-stop behind Dark Light. Most recently completing a successful spring U.S. headlining tour with stops at Jimmy Kimmel Live and Last Call With Carson Daly along the way.
>>By cora2003 (Thursday, 28 Sep 2006 11:46)
well well im at the top again on the new page opening!:D
>>By cora2003 (Thursday, 28 Sep 2006 11:47)
a personal message from Ville
Ville Valo has revealed that he is currently in Lapland, putting ideas together for some new songs. H.I.M. recently cancelled their U.S.tour ,which was due to kick off on october 18th, in order to concentrate on the follow up tp 2005's 'Dark Light'. "That would have been the 3rd tour in the states, that we've done in a year, so we were like'fuck that', Ville explains." Its not that we would be lacking the spirit,but it's just that we would be doing the same old.same old.It would be a lot more interesting for people, if we bring new material next time we play. " I'm actually in Lapland now" he adds " ive rented this tiny wooden cabin in the middle of nowhere, it's snowing and its beautiful.I'm on my own and ive got an acoustic guitar with me. I'm just taking it easy,watching movies, eating well, drinking well and playing well. This is the first vacation ive had in ten years! But i'm mainly concentrating on playing the acoustic and working on ideas" " we're trying to get in the studio in the first few months of next year and hopefully we'll have the album out next september" " thats the plan for now, but we'll see what happens. We might even record the album in the u.k.. we did the album Razorblade Romance in Wales, and it was a great experience. Theyre lovely placesall around the u.k. so we're thinking that we might do that 'Uneasy listening 'vol 1 the first of a two part project is due to be released on the 30th october " One ingredient behind that thing was that our previous record company wanted to releas something,I was looking through their plans and I really thought they were shit! I didn't want to release something in a predictable and stupid way, just for the sake of it. I wanted to make it as interesting as possible. So what I started doing, was going through my archives, and looking through everything i had, and I had a lot of stuff thats pretty hard to get- out of print or unreleased-because ive kept everything we've done.We've always had the pretty sentimental side to what we do so we wanted to do two releases its basically one album for the girls and one for the boys! volume 2 is coming out in a couple of months and that's going to have all the hard rocking stuff on it. That will be the one you listen to with your mates when your downing beer and the other one vol1 is for when you've got a hangover. I was obviously just thinking about myself!" hope you enjoyed reading this , yours,NICOLA XXX 666 XXX
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>>By scarletnikki (Sunday, 29 Oct 2006 15:49)
Uneasy Listening vol1 is out today...GO GET IT!!!!
>>By scarletnikki (Monday, 30 Oct 2006 12:44)
out today?
tell me ab it!
>>By cora2003 (Tuesday, 7 Nov 2006 15:11)
how amazing is it? I can't stop listening to it ,it is so beautiful.
>>By scarletnikki (Wednesday, 8 Nov 2006 21:43)
uneasy listening volume 2 is released in the u.k. on monday.
>>By scarletnikki (Tuesday, 17 Apr 2007 15:48)
wow
its been 4years since i was here, and nothing has changed, well, except for people, and HIM, i don't like the new HIM so much!!!! the old, unique was so much better and more interesting
now, the people who made fun of me, 4 years ago when i told them i listen to HIM, are "fans".... so i don't want to be one of them
mwa
>>By Mateja (Monday, 7 May 2007 11:25)
well I wasnt one of them Mateja! the music HIM are making is still unique and interesting. I was a fan 4 years ago,and I still am ,i don't follow fashion with who to love or hate. there used to be a lot of bitches on here arguing about who was the "biggest fan"..they have disappeared!
>>By scarletnikki (Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:57)
villes music has changed over the years,but their performances are still amazing.
i dont think their music has got better or worse just different.
ville seems to vary his style and thats unique in my book
and the best thing is if your a fan though you may prefer one era of their music to anothers its all great.
i love everything they have ever done and im certain i will continue to do so:)
its a shame the new album got pushed back
but it all adds to the immense anticipation lol
i cant wait
ive heard some of the tracks and it all sound beautiful to me.
i like a few finnish bands,especially negative.
but HIM will always be my favourite.
take care peeps
its nice when we cam just discuss ville and his music and what we get out of it.
rather than some of the cat fights that used to go on in here lol
hope your all well
666 kisses hugs and heartagrams
selena
xxx
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>>By villevalo (Sunday, 17 Jun 2007 18:29)
About villevalo
Whole name:Ville Hermanni Valo Birthtime and -place:22.11.1976 Helsinki, Finland 8:28 am. Nicknames:Viltsu, Vilpertti, Rakohammas (Slot-tooth), Zebraman, Vlad Lux, Bil, Don Vitto, Elvis Tattoos:left arm covered with ornament, heart with black outline under his right wrist, Heartagram around his left nipple that was previously a clef (some sources said that was letter S), little Heartagram on his neck, ornamentwings around heartagram above his genitals, flamesymbol and the cosmic pope on his right calf. In summer 2005 when HIM was working with Dark Light-album Ville took more tattoos over his skin. There is a picture of Timo K. Mukka (Finnish writer who died before his 30th birthday, death caused by his habits...) on his inner right forearm. Other instruments:Ville plays every instrument that are often used in the rockbands. He's composing with keyboards and guitar, Bass and drums are known from his sideprojects and former bands. Childhood:Lived first months in Vallila surrounded by houses built from wood. Soon their family moved to Oulunkylä and Ville lived there about 17 years. When Ville was little boy they've got lots of pets in their home. Ville learned to walk with the help of the dog named Sami and Ville has said that he suffered an awful trauma and he became allergic and asthmatic when the dog died. Ville thinks that this is a psycholocigal disease for him. There were also fishes, turtles and other stuff in the home of Ville's childhood. When Ville was baby and he started to cry then his father put the song named Paratiisi (by Rauli Badding Somerjoki) in their stereo and his mother took him near and started to dance. That's the way how Ville stopped shedding his tears. Family:Father worked as a taxidriver and later he worked in sexshop where Ville was also working before HIM started Ville. Mother worked in an office . Ville has a brother who was born in 1983 and he is successful in kickboxing. First musical memory:The family of Ville has got a friend called Jallu who is very good for imitating Elvis. Once they had a party in the house and Jallu was playing 'Are You Lonesome Tonight' at the midnight. Ville crawled with his 'potkuhousut' (the trousers used by babies) nearby their recordshelves and there were hiden bongodrums. Ville started rapidly playing drums and his parents thought that the boy wants to play the music. First scaring memory of music was when Ville was 4 years old. The son of Jallu was the fan of Iron Maiden and when Ville went to his room he's so scared about Eddie and other monster stuff that he ran away from the room. That happened in the night, by the way.. Schoolyears:Ville was very wild in the school, he's fighting with other guys and he often changed his classroom for that. He was hyperactive child and when he was about 7 he went to investigations where was attached pipes collecting magnetic signals from his head. After that Ville get a special permission to draw pictures in the classroom. That's only way to keep little Ville calm and easy. In the upper classes he liked a lot of mathematics. First he got problems with that subject, but he got a teacher named Erkki Falck who was extremely severe. Teacher made Ville count on blackboard and shamed him at the same time. That's enough for Ville and he decided to learn to count. He spent lots of time for mathematics and after that Ville starts to get good number for it. Ville thinks in their book that school sucks. He understands the function of lower classes because there was learned to read and write and that's important thing. Ville also thinks that everyone should go to school when they're ready for it and they really want to study even they are 30 years old. In the school everyone learned by heart but they take shape of nothing. After upper classes Ville went to evening-secondary school. He was there about year and a half and then he quit because he can't stand it anymore. He thinks that reason for that was his bad discipline with himself. Passion for music:When Ville was 8 years old (in 1984) he heard Animalize by Kiss for the first time. That was the first record that he bought and the recommendation was given by Ville's cousin Pia. Ville saved the money that he get from his parents and asked from Pia that 'what's good record to buy' and she answered 'Animalize'. Ville asked that because he don't know anything about music, records or recordstores. So Ville went to recordstore and took Animalize from the shelf and that's why Ville play music today... Ville thinks that Pia brainwashed him to rockmusic and thinks that the result for him should be probably very different kind if she was recommended for example classical music. Animalize is still very important record for Ville and he gets other record of Kiss after that. In here is good to tell that Ville likes more of unmasked Kiss than the masked one because he started in their unmasked season. In the third class starts classes for music and pupils started to think what's their instrument what they want to play. Ville thinks that Gene Simmons is nice and his choice was the bassguitar for that. His parents find somewhere used bassguitar and that was a great moment for Ville. That bassguitar is still left in his home and he takes care for it. He also plays it sometimes. The instrument is Dia-marked SG-copy from 70's. Playing bass:Ville changed his bass couple of times for more fresh designs. He remembered when he played with his first bass and small amplifier, it was more pain than pleasure. His fingers bleeding and his mother says 'boy, keep on training'. Ville was not inspired for training, but lately he said that's good for him though that was very boring sometimes to train his technics. Ville was never trained with piano or classical music. He wanted rather to play pop or rock than something high-cultural. Ville starts to learn to reading the notes in his lower classes and there went lots of time before he learned anything. Hobbies:Ville take an interest in judo and spent almost 9 years for that event when he was kid. His father likes a lot of events for struggle and the boxing is nearby his heart and that infected to Ville. Ville doesn't want to fight in boxing, so he choosed judo for his event. Ville got a green belt in judo. Another hobby from the early years was skateboarding where he was really good. He stopped skateboarding somewhere in the middle of 90's and Bam Margera is the person who probably started again that hobby for Ville. Nowadays he likes to design graphics with computer. Collects records and reads lots of biographies from different artists to educate himself. Moving out from home:Ville moves out from his home when he was 18. His mother and father gave some money that Ville could live in Helsinki (very expensive rents). Ville was already allergic and asthmatic and he didn't cure himself, because he didn't see that necessary then. His family took the dog to their home. The dog was mistreated by its former owner and the family of Ville wanted to save that dog. The dog made Ville so sick that he was in hospital two weeks. After that the ville's father gave apartment as a birthdaypresent to him. So Ville moved out from his home. Bands before HIM:B.L.O.O.D. (late 1980's---special thing was two drummers, another plays in rehearsals and the other one in their gig. Band played one gig in their school and the other guys was older than Ville. Band plays instrumentalversion of 'Run To The Hills' by Iron Maiden.) Eloveena Boys (late 1980's---Ville plays bass. Band plays titles of U2 and Dire Straits and that was the first band that played the song written by Ville. Band plays 5-6 gigs.) Aurora (late 1980's---Ville on drums,Lind on guitars. First band that plays only their own music. Ville and Linde met in the school when Linde came to same school with Ville and they started to play together Charlie Parker. This band was very offensive and in the one gig their singer was drunk and he fell against equipment for lights and the whole stuff falls down and breaks the drums. It took a big time to fix the drums that Ville could play with them). Aurora was rehearsed about a half of year when they started to plan to make a classtrip. They planned to organize hippieparties in their school for saving the money for their trip. Parties had to be on the next week when the principal of their school lost his nerves and screamed that 'you can't make your parties, you'll only smoke your joints there!'. Parties was cancelled and after that pupils went very angry for that principal. The revenge for that principal was the song called 'Martti Ilvonen tunkee kyrpää suoleen' (free translation: Martti Ilvonen put his dick down to asshole). The band plays that song in the autumnconcert of their school and all of the other teachers was almost killed in the laughter. The crowd in concert went insane and started to throw seats around the area. After that Ville and his friends were not welcome to play in the concerts in the school of Oulunkylä. They made another way to save the money for their trip, they sold donuts and stuff like that. They finally arrived to Amsterdam by driving bus through Sweden,Denmark and Germany. They planned to play music in local schools. In Holland they played 3-4 gigs and the trip takes about 10 days. That was first time when Ville was outside of Finland because of music. Terapia (early 1990's) Kemoterapia (early 1990's) Winha (1990's) Donits-Osmo Experience (1992-93---This bands plays several gigs and there is couple of collections where their demo's were released. They also played as a supporter of Mudhoney at club called Lepakko in Helsinki. Lepakko was demolished in early 2000. Lepakko was legendary place for finnish bands and there was also the first 'local radiostation' in action. R.I.P.) Unga Kaskelottär (early 1990's---duo with Ville & Mige) Natas (1990's) Relationships with HIM-members:Ville met Mige when he was in 3rd class (about 10 years old) in the school. Because both of them played bass, they also often hanged around together. Ville met Linde when he goes to upper classes (about 13 years old) when Linde came to same school. Ville & voice:Ville was meant to play bass in HIM, but because there is Mige and no-one's wanted to be a singer, so Ville became to that role. Ville didn't sing in his former bands and when he was in school he was ashamed of his voice and he had a big doubt for singing in the band. He doubts that 'does it work?'. In HIM:Ville discovered the name 'His Infernal Majesty' from the book 'The Satanic Bible' by Anton LaVey. He hanged around with hippies and other people like them and he was overdosed of their Haile Selassie and 'His Imperial Majesty'-stuff and he started to listen deathmetal. Then he find that book and there was in one poem term 'His Infernal Majesty' and he rapidly thinked that was a good name for their band. At that time they played music inspired by Black Sabbath. They also thinked names like 'Black Salem' and 'Black Earth' for their band. Mige was sick and tired of that choices. So he took some paint and wrote on his amplifier title 'His Infernal Majesty' and that's the end for conversations about the name of the band. The symbols that are used by band (for example number 666) are not be connected with satanic or religional way. It's took from the bands that are important for HIM and that's some kind of dedication for those bands. The first His Infernal Majesty was born in 1991. Ville plays 6-stringed bass as a guitar and sings, Mige plays bass and there were two guys as a drummer (Juippi & Juha Tarvonen). The first gig with that band was in Semifinal-club in Helsinki (31.12.1991). Band uses also name Kafferi. Kafferi made a demorecord 'Xilqa Xilqa Besa Besa'. This band made also demo under their 'official name' and it was named 'Witches And Other Nights-Fears'. This band splitted up when Mige went to army to serve his native country. Kafferi means people with black skin and guys blocked it out from old books of H.P. Lovecraft. The books was the great source of inspiration for the band then. Ville has got a friends from ethnic minorities and they thought that Kafferi is too grotesque being the name for the band, so they abandoned it. At the same times Ville made some money to get his cigarettes by playing in the streets of Helsinki. The second version of HIM made a song called 'Borellus' that was straight taken from Lovecraft. That source of inspiration stays. Borellus are inspired by the novel that tells about dead people and other dark creatures that are awaken alive. Most important parts of that song Ville sang straight from the book. Lovecraft wrote his books in lyrical way and that's why it's so easy to sing in its original form. HIM was on the break because of Mige's in army and the thing get started again in 1993 and then Linde came in to play guitars and bass (Ville sings and plays drums) and they recorded 3-song demo in Lepakko. Demo was done in 4-track studio and it includes songs Serpent Ride, Borellus and The Heartless. After that demo done by Ville and Linde they got company (Mige & Pätkä) and that's the big bang to the story of band who created love metal... In the summer 1995 they recorded demo included Stigmata Diaboli, The Phantom Gate and Wicked Game what was lately their breakthrough-hit. Heartagram:The symbol that gave the name for their official website and told to everyone what HIM is and what it would be is the heartagram. This symbol is compilation of heart and pentagram and it's Ville's idea to combine those elements. It's like Yin & Yang, soft & hard, love & hate and other compilations of opposite elements. That thing is in the music of HIM, here's the opposite elements to heard in every album... There is private hospital called Mehiläinen (Bee) in Helsinki that's using same kind of logo, by the way... Other facts about Ville:Dark appearance of Ville comes from his mother who got a roots in Hungary. Before Ville was rockstar he worked in the store that sells sex-stuff. When first album of HIM was released Ville was known about his suits and the bottle of redwine in his hand. He abandoned redwine rapidly after that, because he noticed that chemicals in wine doesn't work with singing and wine's not good for his voice. Cigarettes are from the times he played instruments in his bands and the smoking stayed. Ville says that the smoking is some kind of protection to him because he can't hide behind the instrument on the stage. Ville took inspirations to create lovemetal from melancholy that are very popular element in finnish music. There is Rauli Badding Somerjoki and Tapio Rautavaara from finnish artists that are very important
>>By scarletnikki (Friday, 6 Jul 2007 14:42)
Ville made most of the material for HIM, in first album were couple of songs that included material made by Linde. All lyrics are made by Ville. Lyrics are some kind of diary to Ville and all of them tells about situations in real life covered in this poetic gothstyle. Ville is addicted to shape of a heart and he collects things around it. Equipment:Shure endorsement-earmonitors and -microphones
>>By scarletnikki (Friday, 6 Jul 2007 14:45)
having a ville overload there are we nicola? lol
has everyone seen the new pics of ville?
at least he got rid of that beard lol
i mean he looked sweet and stuff but hes so much hotter clean cut dont you think?:P
bye for now peeps!
>>By villevalo (Tuesday, 10 Jul 2007 01:27)
you know me! Ville is hot whichever way!
>>By scarletnikki (Wednesday, 18 Jul 2007 23:54)
a good friend of mine is on an american him street team and is getting to meet ville this monday
she will be getting a bit of alone time with him to discuss things
and of course ive gave her some of my own personal questions id like her to ask him lol
answers should be fun lol
any him fans here have a myspace page?
add me
www.myspace.com/tigeroscars
yes nikki i agree but i think hes never looked hotter that he does right now to be honest lol
clean cut ville with long hair
my favourite;)
love to you all
mwahs
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>By villevalo (Sunday, 5 Aug 2007 03:25)
I can't wait to catch up with Ville when they return to the u.k. and see them live!
>>By scarletnikki (Monday, 13 Aug 2007 15:28)
so whats everyones favourite track off the new album so far then?
mine has to be venus doom without a doubt;)
xxx
>>By villevalo (Tuesday, 14 Aug 2007 20:29)
at least ville is a lot better after being in rehab x
>>By scarletnikki (Friday, 31 Aug 2007 15:59)
there is to be a HIM signing at HMV in london during december, when they play there. wristbands will be available from 8am,for more info, go to kerrang.com
>>By scarletnikki (Thursday, 13 Sep 2007 23:13)
happy 31st birthday Ville xxxxx
>>By scarletnikki (Friday, 23 Nov 2007 01:39)
I saw HIM for the first time afew weeks ago in Calgary.
When he walked on stage I swear three tears went down my face.
If this band means anything to you or his music picks you up...
you must see them live.
its a time in my life i will never forget.
>>By Becka (Wednesday, 28 Nov 2007 17:27)
how bizarre that no one comes on here anymore
>>By scarletnikki (Thursday, 17 Jul 2008 02:14)
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