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19/08/2011: No HIM gig at Helldone.

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:16:00 +0100

Helldone Myspace confirms that this new year's eve there will no HIM gig because the band is working on new songs for the forthcoming album.

04/08/2011: New HIM album in 2012

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 04:16:00 +0100

According with Seppo Vesterinen in a interview at iltalehti.fi the band must have ready a new album at the end of this year and must be released some time next year. There is not any news about the label but there are some offers. The band will not tour until the album release but maybe will do the gig at tavastia at new years eve.

30/03/2011: HIM part ways with Sire/Warner Music

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:16:00 +0100

After 6 years and three albums, Finnish rock band HIM and Sire/Warner Music have decided to part ways.

Seymour Stein, founder of Sire Records says: "It was a pleasure working with HIM, and we're very proud to have been their partners for the last six years. Ville is a rare talent, and my relationship with their manager Seppo dates back to the days when he pioneered rock music in Finland looking after the career of Hanoi Rocks. HIM are particularly important because they are the first and only band from Finland to reach Gold status in America. I, along with the entire Sire/Warner Bros. family, wish them continued success in the future."

HIM's discography on Sire includes the 2005 album Dark Light, which reached gold in the US. Follow-up albums Venus Doom (2007) and Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice (2010) charted both in the US and Europe.

"We're ever so grateful for having had Seymour and Co as the generous hosts on our extended first stay in the New Country. It's been a Blast Royale but now it's time to clean up the rubble and start anew", comments Ville Valo of HIM.

Source: heartagram.com

10/12/2010: SWRMXS FULL ALBUM

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:16:00 +0100

The full release is available to listen it in Spotify. The program is free to download and legal.

SWRMX in Spotify.

03/12/2010: SWRMXS sound samples

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:16:00 +0100

The album is available to download in germany at price 9,99 euro.

23/11/2010: SWRMXS CD Description...

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:16:00 +0100

...Reveals very instersting info: �SWRMXS� is a remixed version of HIM�s 2010 album "Screamworks: Love In Theory and Practice." This marks the first time the band has released a full length remix album and it features collaborations with some of the biggest names in electronic music today. Also featured are collaborations with new stars on the electronic scene and remixes by Ville Valo himself.

1. In Venere Veritas (Huoratron Remix) Huoratron is the brainchild of Finish electronic music producer Aku Raski. He began doing remixes in 2003 and is known for producing what has been referred to as Game Boy Music, which is produced using a game system of the Game Boy line.

2. In The Arms Of Rain (SALEM Remix) Salem is a mid-west band from Traverse City, Michigan who gained fast popularity with their 2008 debut, Yes I Smoke Crack. Originally a solo project began by John Holland in 2006, Salem now also includes Heather Marlatt and Jack Donoghue.

3. The Foreboding Sense of Impending Happiness (Morgan Page Remix) Morgan Page is a progressive house and electro house DJ from Los Angeles. His most widely recognized track is "The Longest Road," feat. Lissie, which was included on his debut album Elevate, released in March 2008. The Deadmau5 remix was nominated for a Grammy (Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical).

4. Ode to Solitude (Gavin Russom Remix) Gavin Russom is a producer and musician who has released music under various guises over the years, including Black Leotard Front, Black Meteoric Star and The Crystal Ark, as as well as collaborative work with Delia Gonzalez. Russom also has also designed and built custom analog synthesizers for both his own music and for others'.

5. Heartkiller (The Mercyfvcks Remix) The Mercy Fvcks is a side project and Ville Valo and another way for him to stretch his creativity.

6. Love, The Hardest Way (Ti�sto Remix) DJ Tiesto is a Dutch musician, DJ and record producer. His many productions, remixes and performances (including the opening ceremony at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece) has lead to him being widely regarded as the number one DJ in the world.

7. Shatter Me With Hope (oOoOO Remix) Based in San Francisco, CA, oOoOO (Christopher Dexter Greenspan) started as a blog phenomenon and grew into a sought after remixer. Yet he remains mysterious by insisting that in the age of the internet, names and biographical details are less important than visual and sonic codes.

8. Dying Song (Jay Lamar & Jesse Oliver Remix) Fresh off their collaboration on Robyn feat. Royksopp's "None of Dem", Jay Lamar & Jesse Oliver (Ville's brother) collaborate again on "Dying Song".

9. Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness) (VV Remix)

10. Scared To Death (Diamond Cut Remix) Diamond Cut is a New York City outfit whose production and remix credits include Futurecop!, M'Black and Super Mal.

11. Acoustic Funeral / Like St. Valentine / Katherine Wheel (�� Megamix) �� consists of Ville and his brother Jesse Oliver. Source Amazon

23/11/2010: "Dying Song" Video

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:16:00 +0100

13/11/2010: SWRMXS 2 full songs preview

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:16:00 +0100

In Venere Veritas (Huoratron Remix) and Scared To Death (Diamond Cut Remix).

11/11/2010: SWRMXS CD Tracklist

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:16:00 +0100

1 In Venere Veritas (Huoratron Remix)
2 In The Arms Of Rain (SALEM Remix)
3 The Foreboding Sense of Impending Happiness (Morgan Page Remix)
4 Ode to Solitude (Gavin Russom Remix)
5 Heartkiller (The Mercyfvcks Remix)
6 Love, The Hardest Way (Ti�sto Remix)
7 Shatter Me With Hope (oOoOO Remix)
8 Dying Song (Jay Lamar & Jesse Oliver Remix)
9 Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness) (VV Remix)
10 Scared To Death (Diamond Cut Remix)
11 Acoustic Funeral / Like St. Valentine / Katherine Wheel (�� Megamix)

Preorder at heartagram.com store for a physical CD or the bundle with the tshirt

06/11/2010: SWRMX Album Cover & Sound sample

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 05:16:00 +0100

"i dreamt the image one night, opened up the toolbox in the morn and started smashing the vhs tape to a gazillion tiny bits with a hammer. after its guts were splattered on my kitchen floor, i rather delicately forced the tape to form a heartagram. not too different than creating a remix, see?" - Ville Valo.

source: Heartagram.com

The first sound sample of the album have leaked on non official sources. The mix of Love the hardest Way by DJ Tiesto.

06/11/2010: HIM 2010 Live Tour: Audio and Video.

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 05:16:00 +0100

You can listen part of the HIM gig at Pier Pressure, G�teborg 19-6-2010., at sverigesradio.se. And download it from here.

Great quality videos from the Myspace secret show, February 2010, Columbia club, Berlin:
HIM: Scared To Death, Live in Berlin (Myspace Secret Show)
HIM: Disarm Me, Live in Berlin (Myspace Secret Show)
HIM: Join Me, Live in Berlin (Myspace Secret Show)
HIM: Wings Of A Butterfly, Live in Berlin (Myspace Secret Show)

02/11/2010: SWRMXS - The Official Screamworks Remix Album

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 05:16:00 +0100

Next December 7th will be released the Remixed album of Screamworks, featuring remixes by Tiesto, Morgan Page, Gavin Russom, Huotratron, THE Mercyfvcks, Salem and more. The album will be available for preorder next day 11 of this month at heartagram.com, later could be buyed only at hottopic.com stores or as digital download at itunes and others digital retailers.
More links, sound samples here as soon as they were available.

Source: Heartagram.com

02/11/2010: Daniel Lioneye on TOUR

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 05:16:00 +0100

Daniel Lioneye (Linde, Mige and Burton) will be touring on yhr Cradle Of Filth Tour. Dates places and tickets can be found here.
As those band member will be busy during that time its more than probably there wont be any HIM gig during some long time. The usual tavastia-helldone gig of new year wont have HIM playing.

04/06/2010: HIM AT ROCK AM RING 2010 (LIVE STREAM)

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:16:00 +0100

Next sunday June 6th, HIM will be playing at the ROCK AM RING festival in N�rburgring, Germany. We can see it live in the live stream here selecting Alternastage at the video top. HIM will start around 22:30 (european time).

10/04/2010: HIM - Scared To Death (Single)

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:16:00 +0100

The new HIM single will be only at online download as it happens with the second single of the previous album. You can listen some soundclips on our single web page, or you can try to listen online on Spotify (full songs, depends of your country). Is available in several sites for buy/download in a price around 2,20 euros (2GBP, 3USD): itunes uk, amazon, 7digital.
Tracklist is:
1) Scared To Death (Album Version)
2) Scaerd To Death (B.I.B Version)
3) Scared To Death (Instrumental)

Note: B.I.B is the acoustic in Baudelaire In Braile CD that comes with Screamworks ltd edition.

03/04/2010: Ode to Solitude video (UPDATED)

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:16:00 +0100

www.odetosolitude.com

HIM - Ode To Solitude, source: vampirefreaks.com

21/03/2010: Scared to Death

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:16:00 +0100

Next HIM single of the album Screamworks will be Scared To Death. The video for this song leaked some days ago due to an "privacity" error on the HIM myspace, there are some screenshoots of the video here. But the official premiere of the video must be tomorrow 22/03/2010 on myspace. The video was directed by Eugene Riecan on Melbourne and you can see mainly Ville on it.
Its soon to know more about the single release, but the cover must be the one posted on swr3.de, because its already used on other reliable sources. Not known if there will be a physical release, but there is some promo including: the title track, the acoustic version, the live version and one "instrumental" version.

06/03/2010: Shooting the new HIM video in Melbourne

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:16:00 +0100

DanielLioneye (Linde from HIM) have an account on twitter, and some days ago he posted a pic with that title.

28/02/2010: Daniel Lioneye Vol. II

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:16:00 +0100

Daniel Lioneye will release the second album called "Vol. II" at the end of april. Daniel Lioneye is Linde (HIM) , Burton (HIM) and Bolton (Enochian Crescent) .

Tracklist:
01. Euroshaman
02. Flatlined
03. Saturnalia
04. Neolithic Way
05. I Saw Myself
06. The Mentat
07. I Have Never Wanted To Be Number One
08. Who Turned The Lights Out
09. Kiss Of The Cannibal

The album is already available for preorder, the release date must be April 26, 2010. Here you can preorder and listen some soundclips, and find more info about the album.

Source: TheSacrament.net

28/02/2010: HIM Featured in RockBand 2 Game

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:16:00 +0100

The Game Rock Band 2 for Nintendo Wii have released a pack of 3 songs from HIM. The songs are Wings Of A Butterfly, Heartkiller and Ode to solitude. Links will direct you to some videos on youtube.

17/02/2010: In Venere Veritas

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:16:00 +0100

See one video for this song here: http://www.invenereveritas.com

11/02/2010: Screamworks Updated

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:16:00 +0100

Our HIM page for Screamworks album have been updated with sound clips of the acoustic cd Baudelaire in Braile.

You can listen the full album in Spotify HERE. You need to register and dowload the program before, there are instructions on the link, and also you can find the other albums of HIM.

You can listen for a few days more the BBC sessions that him recordec a few days ago, they played some songs live like Hearkilled, Scared to death, Love the Hardest Way and Wing of A Butterfly.

Next update will include lyrics and more information about the latest releases on the HIMCDDB.

05/02/2010: Prelisten the full album in HIM's myspace

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:16:00 +0100

The MySpace listening party for Screamworks: Love In Theory and Practice is now live Here!

Source: myspace.com/heartagram & heartagram.com

04/02/2010: Matt Squire Interview about the new album.

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:16:00 +0100

You can see it from youtube HIM channel: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.

04/02/2010: Ville Valo Metal Hammer Interview And More!

webmaster@h-i-m666.com — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:16:00 +0100

February issue of the MetalHammer magazine features Ville Valo on the cover evoking the spirit of The Mad Hatter. The interview features Ville in his own house and extra cd with the magazine includes " an exclusive world first track from Ville Valo and CRADLE OF FILTH�S Dani Filth; the latter who reads the enigmatic poem from �Black Sabbath�s gatefold vinyl album while Ville creates a haunting soundscape with instruments older than your mum�s mum. It�s a Black Sabbath tribute track like nothing you�ve heard before." And you can download as wallpaper the previous image.

Rocksound Magazine also features Ville on cover.

Here you can see one video interview with Ville Valo about the album and his rehab from the bravo.de TV.

Next February 9 there will be a radio interview with Ville at BBC Radio 1 that you will be able to listen from here.