FAQ's
BAND
I.1
What is HIM?
HIM are:
Seppo Vesterinen – manager
Ville Valo – vocal
Mige Amour (Mikko Henrik Julius Paananen) – bass-guitar
Lily Lazer (Mikko Viljami 'Linde' Lindstrom) – guitar
Gas Lipstick (Mikko Karppinen) – drums (replaced Juhana)
Emerson Burton (Jani Purttinen) – keyboard (replaced Zoltan)
Ex-HIM is:
Zoltan Pluto (Jussi 'Juska' Salminen) – keyboard (replaced Antto)
Antto Melasniemi – keyboard
Juhana Rantala – drums
I.2 How many albums did they release & what's
tracklisting?
HIM released 3 albums (Greatest Lovesongs Vol.666, Razorblade
Romance, Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights) and 1 EP (666 Ways To
Love: Prologue).
EP "666 Ways To Love: Prologue" (1996)
01. Stigmata Diaboli 2:51
02. Wicked Game 3:53
03. Dark Secret Love 5:17
04. The Heartless 7:25
Greatest Lovesongs Vol.666 (1998)
01. Your Sweet Six Six Six
02. Wicked Game
03. The Heartless
04. Our Diabolikal Rapture
05. It's All Tears
(Drown
In This Love)
06. When Love And Death Embrace
07. The Beginning Of The End
08. (Don' t Fear) The Reaper
09. For You
66. Bonus track
Razorblade Romance (2000)
01. I love you
02. Poison girl
03. Join me (Album Version)
04. Right here in my arms
05. Gone with the sin
06. Razorblade kiss
07. Bury me deep inside
08. Heaven tonight
09. Death is in love with us
10. Resurrection
11. One Last Time
12. Sigillum Diaboli [3:53] *
13. The 9th Circle (OLT) [5:12] *
* Bonus-tracks are only available on German edition
Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights
01. Salt in our
wounds
02. Heartache every moment
03. Lose you tonight
04. In joy and sorrow
05. Pretending
06. Close to the flame
07. You are the one *
08. Please don't let it go
09. Beautiful 10. In love and lonely *
11. Don't close your heart
12. Love you like I do
* Bonus-tracks are available only on digipak edition.
I.3 What's
their label?
HIM works with Gun/Supersonic
(subsidiary of BMG in Germany) and with ВMG-Finland.
I.4 Did
they play in any other bands?
Ville started at 7 and played in some bands. The first one called Kemoterapia.
Mige and Linde also played in different school bands. Gas was a drummer of
Kyyria before HIM. Zoltan played keyboards in To/Die/For (ex-Mary Ann), now he
plays in New Dawn Foundation. Burton played in Sub-Urban Tribe, Cosmos Tango,
Torpedo.
I.5 What
are their musical influences?
Ville likes melodical rock and Kiss. Mige likes Black Sabbath. Linde likes
Iggy Pop.
I.6 What plans do
they have for the future?
This summer band
made appearance at some festivals around Europe and in Finland. After Obscuro
festival in Mexic band returns in Finland, where they continue record sessions
of 4rth abum – Love Metal. Winter2002 HIM leaves for USA to mix record there.
Release of the first single is planned for beginning 2003, of album - spring
2003.
I.7 What's
up with their logo??
The logo is called heartagram. It’s a combination of pentagram and heart. This
is HIM original logo.
I.8
What
does HIM abbreviation means?
HIM stands for His Infernal Majesty. His Infernal Majesty is the original name
of the band. Nowadays the band is called just HIM.
I.9 What does abbreviation HER means?
HIM had to take this name for USA promotion due to copyright restrictions as
in USA the band HIM alredy exist. HER appeared in the middle of 2002, is
distributed only on US territiry & doesn't stand for anything (except the joke
about Her Evil Royalty).
I.9
Who's The 69 eyes?
It’s another one gothic rock band from Hellsinki. Ville helped them to record
Wrap Your Troubles In Dream, Wasting the Dawn, Blessed Be & Paris Kills (check
III.7).
Official site - http://www.poko.fi/69eyes/ Fan-site - http://crimsondawn.narod.ru/69eyes
Private
II.1 When was
band formed?
In
summer 1995 Ville Valo and his school friends Mige and Linde organized a band
and called it His Infernal Majesty.
II.2 Birthdates of the bandmembers?
Ville:
22.11.76
Mige: 19.12.74
Lily: 12.08.76
Gas: 08.02.71
Burton: 17.10.1974
<<< Zoltan: 26.09.77 >>>
II.3
How
many tattoos do they have??
Linde has something like a sword on the right shoulder.
Mige has stylized heartagram on the left forearm and two snakes on the right one.
Gas has heartagram on the right leg.
Ville has 6 tattoos: heartagram on tummy, heart on the right wrist, ornament on the left arm from shoulder to wrist, symbol like S around the left nipple, heartagram on the neck, symbol like a candle on the left leg (Ville says it's ancient Egyptian flame) & creature better known as Cosmic Pope on his right calf.
Zoltan has heartagram right in the center of chest.
II.4
Who is Susanna?
Susanna
is a phantomlike girlfriend of Ville (Susanna is not Sanna Jun Hyde which voice
is recorded on GLSV. 666!) >>>
II.5
What is the guys’ sexual orientation?
The right
answer is known to the guys only;)
As Ville said once, they are bisexual but without experience with male-partners.
Music
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III.1 Where can I get mp3 HIM? Lots of mp3 can be taken from http://www.himomania.boom.ru/.This site is frequently updated. At Site Gone with the HIM http://www.gone.narod.ru/vhod.htm you can download RazorBlade Romance. You also can use AudioGalaxy http://www.audiogalaxy.com
III.2
Who writes lyrics and music?
"The Beginning
of the End" and "Our Diabolikal Rapture" were written by Ville together
with Linde.
III.3
Who is the producer?
"Greatest Lovesongs Vol.666" is produced by Hiili Hiilsemaa "Razorblade Romance" – by John Fryer "Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights" – by John Fryer and Kevin Shirley
III.4 Who did female vocals for GLSV. 666 & "Dark Sekret Love"?
Sanna-June Hyde and Asta Hanulla performed the female vocals on Greatest Lovesongs vol. 666. Sanna-June Hyde sang along with Ville on “Dark Sekret Love”.
III.5
What covers did HIM make?
III.6 What are non-album tracks & where I can find them?
Most of the songs can be found @ http://www.himomania.heartagram.ru/.
Demo 1995:
>Borellus demo
>Stigmata
Diaboli (Deleted finnish Release) (EP "666 Ways To Love: Prologue" ) -
The first (and the best!) version of Sigillum Diaboli >I've
crossed the oceans of wine to find you (Right here in my arms single)
>Again
(Single “In Joy And Sorrow”) – simply a good song from a good single :)
III.7 Ville
Valo apart from HIM
Ikkunaprinsessa
Jykevaa
On Rakkaus
Paratiisi
Ville sang 3 songs with Finnish band Agents. The songs were recorded at the Rauli "Badding" Sommerjoki tribute. Songs are written on Finnish language and sound very unusual in comparison HIM music. Valo
Yцssд (Tuomari Nurmio cover) It’s a cover of a song written by Tuomari Nurmio in the middle of the XX century. This song Ville recorded as a present for his dad. Ville helped The 69 Eyes to record some of their albums such as: “Wrap Your Troubles in Dream”, "Wasting the dawn" (tracks: "Lay Down Your Arms", "Wasting the Dawn", "Lazarus Heart", "All-american Dream" & "Hand of God"), “Blessed Be” & “Paris Kills”.
III.8
Where it’s possible to get autographs?
Try your luck before or after the gigs or during the promo events, or write letters:
Ville Valo
c/o BMG Finland OY PL 173 00211 Helsinki Finland
III.9
What videos did they film?
Wicked Game (Finnish version) Date of release: 1997 | Director: Kaisaniemi Smal | Lenght: 3 mins 55 sec | Filmed in Kaivopuisto park in Hellsinki Wicked Game (Deutsch version) Date of release: 1997 | Director: Marcus Walter | Lenght: 3 mins 53. secs When Love & Death Embrace Date of release: 1999 Join Me (The 13 Floor O.S.T. version) Date of release: 1999 | Director: Robert Wilde Join Me (ice version) Date of release: 2000 | Director: Bill Yukich Right Here In My Arms Date of release: 14.02.2000| Director: Pasi Pauni Poison Girl Date of release: 2000 | Director: Paul Hauptmann | live video (Berlin 29.03.00) Gone With The Sin (Finnish version) Date of release: 13.09.2000 | Director: Bill Yukich | Lenght 3 mins 30 secs | Filmed in UK & Germany Gone with the Sin (Deutsch version) Date of release: 09.2000 | Director: Ercin Filizli | Filmed in UK & Germany Wicked game (Int., rude) Date of release: 2000| Director: Bill Yukich | Filmed in UK Wicked Game (Int., clean) Date of release: 2000| Director: Bill Yukich | Filmed in UK Pretending Date of release: 25.06.2001 / in Russia – 10.06.2001 | Director: Kevin Godley | Filmed in London In Joy And Sorrow Date of release: 12.09.2001 | Director: John Hillcoat | Filmed in London Heartache Every Moment Date of release: 14.12.2001 | live video (German tour’01) Close To The Flame Date of release: 11.01.2002 | live video (German tour’01 |
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III.10
What (who) is Cosmic Pope? Nothing
seemed to be enough, Then HIM released single “Pretending” where remix “Pretending” (The Cosmic Pope Jam Version) is.Finally, the picture of Cosmic Pope appeared on the booklet for “Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights”. In the beginning of the 2002 king-size Cosmic Pope appeared on Valo's leg.
III.11
Where exactly in "13th Floor" movie I can hear "Join me'? III.13 HIM & cinema
'Mina
ja Morrisson' soundtrack featuring Close to the Flame by HIM
HIM made
guest appearance in spanish soap opera "The cops".
Razorblade Kiss can be heard in Finnish movie Levottomat by Aku Louhimies.
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