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After 26 years of Love Metal, Ville Valo, Mikko "Mige" Paananen, Mikko "Linde" Lindström, Janne "Burton" Puurtinen and the new arrival Jukka "Kosmo" Kröger called it a day. According to Valo's statement on the website, the "official" reason for the break up is the following:
After quarter of a century of Love and Metal intertwined we sincerely feel HIM has run its unnatural course and adieus must be said in order to make way for sights, scents and sounds yet unexplored. We completed the pattern, solved the puzzle and turned the key. Thank you.
Financial Problems
Probably Ville wasn't satisfied with the current financial status of the HIM project. A band is an investment after all, they need to make profits in order to buy the toilet paper and have a roof on the top of their heads (like Ville said) and not long ago we stated that the band ran into some financial troubles. So probably the profits (I mean, no tour and albums = no cash in) weren't enough to pay the shareholders (members of the band) plus the management.
Side Projects
Ville, in the official statement said that they want to find sounds yet unexplored. Well, this seems much more an excuse since he had plenty of time this summer (and many other) to do that, but instead he trolled us another time with the Rambo Rimbaud farce. Anyway (even if the skills of any member is without any doubt remarkable) we don't think that outside of the HIM band there is any room for an equal or greater follow. They are all over 40 and maybe it's a little too late for something completely new. The band also has accustomed us during the years to many new and yet unexplored sounds (for example: SW was much more pop than rock or metal) so we don't really buy the official statement.
Just to give you an example of how massive the HIM fanbase is: the HIM band Facebook page has 1,734,573 followers while the Ville Valo Virallinen (Ville's personal facebook page) page has just a little over 33k. Daniel Lioneye (Linde's side project) has just 20k followers.
Just a very long vacation?
So in the end, Ville, the real brain and heart of the band, just wants to relax in his new house with his new girl and maybe even make some babies too, without being under pressure. When your are in a band of worldwide proportions like HIM you need to tour, write new songs and so on... And maybe he isn't really ready and made for being under pressure, he's never been like that. He's in his 40s and probably he realized he, as every human being at a certain age, is in the desperate need of stability, and before the comeback he needs to live a normal life and a normal family.
Ville has always been very demanding (and therefore slow in the last years) in terms of songwriting and creating the actual songs, so probably the album that should have been released this year (after being postponed in 2016) was still far from perfection. This might also be one of the reason.
The other members
HIM is not just Ville Valo. Every other member has his own life and family and must pay his own bills. So probably there has been some internal conflicts related to the slowness of the frontman, probably amplified by the early departure from Gas? We'll never know, but this is probably one of the most unlikely options, since there has always been a fraternal spirit in a band which is more than a family for them (and many of us). They would have canceled the farewell tour if there was some conflict inside the band, and this is not the case.
We should have expected a break up
This was in the air... But it's like when you're lost into someone so much that you lose every perception of the outside, of what's really going on.
Many people in the HIM fanbase are now mourning this break up. Nobody was expecting it because we always thought HIM were an unbreakable family. But shit happens, nothing lasts forever... We had many signs in the past 10 years but we didn't really care about all these reminders. Maybe it's too late, maybe not. But please let's express ourselves in the farewell tour, let's show them what kind of of fanbase we are. They deserve it.
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e poi deep è il mio top album
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.Salve a tutti, mi chiamo Luca e vivo a Pistoia dove son nato 43 anni fà. Per caso sono finito in questo forum mentre cercavo un sito che vendeva magliette di HIM, e dato che sono iscritto in un forum di metal-detector che evidentemente è collegato a questo ho deciso che sarebbe stato bello conoscere altri fans di Ville. Purtroppo sono un suo fan da poco tempo (circa 4 anni) e a tal proposito ringrazio una mia amica polacca che mi ha fatto conoscere altre canzoni oltre alla famosissima "In joy and sorrow". Sono da sempre un fan dei Gn'R, anche quando nn erano famosi in Italy, ma devo ammettere che HIM sta diventando una "droga" e ovviamente nn voglio disintossicarmi!!
Pistoia? Grande io sto nelle vicinanze, precisamente Montecatini
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La nostra pagina Facebook HIMI ha raggiunto i 3000 likes!
Complimenti agli amministratori della pagina che ogni giorno aggiornano la pagina aiutando e informando i fans sulle nuove iniziative del fanclub e postando nuove foto, video, news e note! Fabiana Claudia e Giulia!
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Pascalle is a name that every HIM fans is aware of, you probably have seen this name on some of the best HIM photos to date.
Pascale Retz was a close friend of the band and one of the most loyal HIM fans that ever existed. She came to various shows of the band across the world by showing always the maximum support and devotion to the finnish quintet.
Pascale was also a talented photographer, and his fabulous Ville's shots and to rest of the band are well known in the all over the world.
On July, 5 2005 a shocking announcement appeared on Heartagram.com:
July 05, 2005
"PASCALLE RETZ IN MEMORIAM
This past Monday we learned with great sadness of the sudden and unexpected passing of Pascale Retz last Sunday. Pascalle was a friend and one of our most loyal fans. She traveled to countless shows in her native Holland and elsewhere and it was always a great pleasure to see her. Being a talented photographer, Pascalle contributed her pictures to fan sites all over the world and was often the link between fans from so many different countries.
We share our thoughts and the sense of loss with her family and her many friends. Thank you, Pascalle.
Pascalle is and always be a true inspiration for all HIM fans and for HIM itself.
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The PV Q&A: HIM's Ville Valo on Music as Meditation, Pulling Together for Tears on Tape and. - Interviews From 2013.
PureVolume had the opportunity to speak with HIM's Ville Valo just prior to the's band announcement that their North American tour is canceled—Valo has been diagnosed with severe asthma with presumptive pneumonia. 
HIM's manager, Seppo Vesterinen has released the following statement to Blabbermouth regarding the tour cancelation: "Ville has asthma and he got a pretty serious attack in the backstage at House of Blues [in West Hollywood] on Friday and there was no way to perform. We got a doctor to the hotel at midnight and he diagnosed signs of pneumonia and prescribed antibiotics. The situation wasn't better on Saturday and we had to decide to cancel these dates to give him time for proper treatment and rest. He's being treated by the best doctors in LA and we hope to continue the summer and fall as planned. Also, he's been under a lot of stress for months recording the new album, artwork and promo for three different labels. Before Ville is fine, we can't make any definite plans for re-scheduling these May dates. Ville and all of us feel really sorry for the fans who have bought tickets months ago and traveled long distances from Brazil, Canada and elsewhere."
BY Tom Lanham
A few weeks ago, HIM bandleader Ville Valo sat in his Helsinki apartment and breathed a long sigh of well-earned relief. He’d just finished examining white-label pressings of his group’s new album, Tears on Tape, and he was finally, at long last, satisfied.
“I was spending many evenings listening to the vinyl and making sure that the fades were working and that everything was sounding the way it should, because there are so many technical aspects that can go wrong,” says the singer, who also carefully monitored every aspect of the music’s uploading to iTunes. “Usually, record companies don’t think about stuff like that, so it has to be the artist to make sure that it all works okay. And it’s okay. So these are the last little steps of the journey that’s been taking the last three years.”
He’s not kidding. HIM proceedings came to a tragic halt over a year ago when drummer Gas (Mika Karppinen) sustained nerve-damaging injury to his hand, putting not only the completion of Tears on Tape in doubt, but the future of the group, as well. Eventually, Gas recovered, and Valo and company soldiered on with Wagnerian anthems like “Unleash the Red,” “All Lips go Blue” (which you can stream above), and “Drawn & Quartered”—some of their most melodic, hook-spiked material in ages. But not before some serious soul-searching went down ...
PureVolume: You’ve said you’ve had some big moments of emotional revelation recently. Such as ... ?
Ville Valo: Well, most of the stuff is obviously personal. But musically speaking, we had a lot of trouble getting this album together because our drummer got ill—his hands got all messed up and he wasn’t able to play for eight months, and we needed to wait. We realized, as a band, that we can’t get anybody else to fill his shoes.
Def Leppard waited through a similar, although much more tragic, situation. You always had to respect them for that.
I know. Indeed. That’s actually one thing I quoted many a time when having meetings with the lads in the band. I said, "You might have problems with your hands, but you actually have them!"
So that was like the icebreaker a couple of times. But it took us eight months to wait until Gas was good, and we weren’t sure if we were gonna make an album, or if the band would continue to exist. So it made everybody sit back and reflect on how much the band means to each individual.
And it’s one of those things that bands—especially rock bands—never have the time to do, because you’re always so busy. There’s always the new tour, the new album, the new whatever. But this time around, it kind of forced us to think a bit and re-evaluate what the whole thing means to us and just how important it is. And obviously, doing all that reflective meditation or whatever you wanna call it, we realized that it is really important, and that made us wait and then really go forward with the new album. So it was sort of an existential crisis.
Left to your own thoughtful devices, do you go out or stay home alone?
Well, it depends on the situation. I’m kind of an on and off guy. If I go out, I go out, and I rarely end up back home. And if I’m staying home, I’m usually just turning into a hermit. So I think it’s important to do both, and I’ve never been good at balancing. I’m one of those guys that, if I end up opening up one beer bottle, it never ends. But then I’ve had a lot of support: I’ve been sharing my home with a female for the past year or so, and that’s a lovely change. There are other things to do now as well as just ruminate and be terribly depressed and be all "Woe is me!"
PV: "Female"? You talk about her like she’s some sort of zoo specimen.
Ha! Well, I think the term "girlfriend" sounds so tacky. So maybe I can use the good old-fashioned way and just say that I’m going steady with somebody. And I’m still trying to figure it all out. But it’s been good.
And in the past year and a half, there’s been a lot of positive stuff happen in my personal life. So that’s helped me get through all that stress with the band. But in the end, music is very important to me, and it’s what I’ve been doing all my life. So I’m really happy that we were actually able to pull ourselves together and create an album like this, that we can be proud of. Girlfriends or not.
When you’re alone with your thoughts, how does an average day go? Do you meditate?
Well, I think that my meditation is music. Usually when I get really frustrated with whatever it may be, I’ll just pick up the nearest acoustic guitar and start strumming away. That’s my way of coping, and my way of getting my head out of the everyday gray world, so to speak.
And I’ve been collecting all sorts of vintage recording equipment over the years, so I’m always just making little demos for myself. And that’s the way I get through many a sleepless night. I think a certain amount of self-editing never harms anybody, otherwise I’d be running out of stories immediately. But I think I’m pretty much an open book, and I lay all my cards on the table, in a way. And I’m happy about that. When we started playing music—even though we grew up with bands like Kiss and Alice Cooper, who had alter egos going on—we just wanted to be ourselves, sort of like, "Take it or leave it." So I think that makes it way easier: We don’t have to pretend to be anything else other than what we are. We have good days and bad days and everything in between, and that makes it easier to speak the truth—you don’t have to figure out who you are today.
Even with just the title Tears on Tape, though, your legion of female fans might be thinking the same thing: that Ville Valo actually cried. Cried for them!
Oh, Lord! I never thought of it in those terms! Not at all ...
But you can’t cry—your mascara would run!
That’s true! But the mascara brands are getting better and better by the day, so you can shed a few tears of joy on occasion. But the whole title for the album came about from the song, which starts with church bells tolling. And it’s about the intro for Black Sabbath’s first album, and more about a general hats-off to our idols. It’s about the tears that everybody from Elvis Presley to Black Sabbath to whomever shed on tape, and the musical milestones that made me want to do what I do, made the band want to do what they do, and kind of got us all together. That’s what Tears on Tape means to me.
And there’s always a whiff of decadence to your material. You’ve never been afraid to walk right up to the abyss and stare in.
Well, the good thing about the abyss is that everyone creates one for themselves, and then it’s your own call: How deep down you want to look into it and see if it looks back. So I think it’s more about just mirroring yourself—accepting the bad and the good and everything in between within one another. So the abyss could just be a plain old mirror.
Ever climb too deep into your own?
Hmm ... no. I think the whole journey so far has been so psychedelic that I wouldn’t change a moment. When I was 16 and we formed the band, I would have never thought that it would take us this far, that I would get to meet all the people I’ve met and see all these different sides of human nature.
When we began this conversation, I said when our drummer had trouble with his hands, with the nerve damage and all that—and by the way, he’s A-OK now, everything’s going well—I think that was the first time I was actually able to sit down and reflect on what the hell just happened in the past 18, 19 years. And I guess I’m pretty much proud of 90 percent of it. It’s impossible not to make mistakes. But in essence, making mistakes is very necessary for one to get to know himself or herself better. And to grow as a human being.
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HIM Live @ Turun Klubi (26.12.2012, FI) (Helldone Pre-Show) Setlist, photos, video + more - Live from 2012.
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Life Of Agony Xmas Version With Ville Valo Kerrang December 2012 (Scans + Traduzione) - Interviews From 2012.
Ecco un regalino per questo natale! Le intelligenti ed esileranti risposte di Ville ai lettori paranoici di Kerrang! Buon natale a tutti!
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Traduzione by Baudelaire In Braille:
Caro Ville,
Sto continuando a rimandare per dire a mia mamma che passerò il Natale con il mio ragazzo perché so che lei mi vuole a casa per quel giorno. Hai qualche idea per dirglielo senza farla arrabbiare?
Kate, Newcasle
Ville dice: Sto avendo lo stesso problema, cara Kate, perché io dovrei essere in due posti nello stesso momento, e la risposta più semplice è proprio essere in tutti e due i posti se non sono tanto distanti l'uno dall'altro. I genitori di solito tendono ad addormentarsi presto, ma se continuano a stare svegli, sostituisci i loro drink con qualcosa di non troppo pericoloso e salta su un taxi! I tuoi parenti ti hanno portato alla luce, quindi sarebbe una disgrazia non passare un pò di tempo con loro, ma sono stati giovani e quindi capiranno.
Caro Ville,
So benissimo dove mia mamma nasconde il regalo di natale, e mio fratello mi ha fatta incazzare quindi ho rotto il suo. Adesso sto male, ma se ammetto quello che ho fatto potrei essere messa in castigo. Cosa dovrei fare?
Ville dice,
A seconda del tipo di regalo che hai rotto, il mio consiglio è quello di andare a comprare un pò di colla e cercare di rimettere in sesto il regalo cercando di convincere tuo fratello che il regalo doveva arrivare in diversi pezzi. Beh, se il regalo è un iPhone potrebbe essere un pochino più difficile da ricostruire… Ho un fratello minore, ma è molto bravo a Thai Boxe, quindi non ho mai rotto niente di tutto ciò!
Caro Ville,
Mia mamma insiste col voler farmi coprire il mio nuovo tatuaggio a Natale in modo da non dover offendere i miei nonni, ma significa davvero tanto per me e io non voglio. Cosa dovrei fare?
Cassie, Aberdeen
Ville dice,
Se è qualcosa facilmente copribile da un maglione natalizio, mettitelo. Il Natale non è la migliore occasione per fare incazzare le persone. Puoi mostrare il tuo rispetto ai nonni senza cambiare quello che sei. Io ho ovviamente una tonnellata di tatuaggi, mio padre ha un tatuaggio e ai miei genitori non gli è mai interessato dei miei, ma mi avvisò che mi sarei pentito di qualche tatuaggio che mi sono fatto negli anni. E aveva ragione!
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This year HIM, the most successful Finnish band in the USA, celebrate 20 years by releasing a compilation album, "XX – Two Decades of Love Metal". This is the fi rst compilation by the band that spans their entire career. Th e celebratory compilation includes one new track, "Strange World" – the fi rst new song from HIM since 2010. Kevin Grivois known by the artist name Ké released the track in the 90s, and it’s one of the personal favorites of Ville Valo. Strange World was released digitally in early September 2012. A music video has been shot for the track.
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This is the upcoming graphic of the Strange World t-shirt. The photo is taken by Bam Margera, he received this one before everyone else! 
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bENE bene! Io ci sono !
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Ville and Mige Invitation for Brazilian Heartagram's Party 30 HQ Screenshots! - Photos Of Ville Valo.
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