Viva La Vida Loca!

My favorite poet, singer, songwriter, artist and kinda philosopher?

VILLE VALO!

Yeah, he is great, I think. I'm addicted to his songs and the melancholic sound of Ville's voice fitting perfectly to the stuff he's singing about and to the whole LOVE-METAL sound of HIM.

HIM is one of those bands, where I have my problems to name my absolute favorite song. I really love "salts in our wounds", "join me (in death)", "the sacrament" or .. well I could go on with that xD haha.

Actually I wanted to share with you, that this very awesome band has just pronounced, that in 2013 their new album "Tears On Tape" will be released.
I'm sooo happy because there were some rumors claiming the end of HIM - I was like "what the fuck?!"

I must admit that "Screamworks: Love In Theory & Practice" wasn't a great masterpiece of HIM. I really liked "In Venere Veritas" and "Heartkiller" but all in all this album had a totally different sound compared to other stuff by HIM. Maybe it was too happy? Maybe it depended on the fact, that it was produced with Matt Squire in america?! I can't tell but I think the atmosphere was totally different while producing. (Of course I'm not an expert!)

I've read, that Ville dedicated this album to a woman (who said no by the way - which woman says no to a beautiful, intelligent avid reader dedicating a whole album to her? xD). As you can see I'm concerned with real important questions but I bet they're more fun than those questions, which were asked by Descartes or Kant and friends. Just saying.


I was a bit disappointed because that what I've heard on Screamworks wasn't HIM but it was kind of american-wannabe-rockband, who tried to copy the sound of HIM. So it just can get better! :D

This year in may Mark Halupczok has published a biography about HIM. I'm a great fan but I've read in that book much information I didn't know until I've read the book. Admittedly it's not really a book about the band, it's more a biography about Ville Hermanni Valo (what a nice name!). At least I had that feeling while reading lots of information about him and less about the band. Nevertheless it's a cool book. I just can advice it to you.