Mini sensation! After 11 years of traditional New Year's concerts at Tavastia, HIM broke down this so-called custom! The last few years it was known under the name of Helldone and the mini tour around Finland that they used to do was quite successful. This year though the guys will be able to celebrate not as colleagues but as friends ( although, in their case its the same thing). No worries - they haven't split or at least they haven't announced it yet :D , but in my opinion this is slightly possible to happen so they wouldn't really split just because of one "weak" album. The bad thing is that the weak albums became too many :D I'm joking...he, Ville loves to talk these stuff... in his opinion even Dark Light is weak although they broke all the rеcords back in Finland. And yet, it is true that for most of us this album can't reach masterpieces like the first works... Screamworks, ot the other hand, was just not well promoted!Tthe first time when I played it actually I was terrified and completely dissapointed. The songs seemed to me so much the same and uninteresting that I even didn't pay attention listening...in fact I'm talking about the first 6 songs. To me, personally ,from Katherine Wheel till the end- these are some of the most genius works that the band had created!But instead of releasing for singles songs like Disarm Me, Like St Valentine, Katherine Wheel, Ode To Solitude, they chose the most plain and weak ones. However, the bad thing is that Ville counted too much on this particular album before it was out and was hoping for great success ( or at least he kept mentioning it in the interviews) but nothing like this happened... actually the controversal - it seems like it is the worst seller in their whole dyscography. looks like they have to overthing some aspects and they will have the time for that now. at this tage they have stayed quite and seems like are taking a break, not doing much. i really hope that next year they will surprise us with a new material....incognito maybe...without much to say, all those things that lie inside their minds and hearts and just like BAAAAAM!!!But it is unlikely...let's see what Ville will say in the next interview...they surely have to make one by the end of the year so that to unveal what are their plans from now on...
And now bits about Linde! Just like Danny Fiels says in the beginning of 2011 Cradle Of Filth will tour shortly around USA and Daniel Lioneye will accompany them. For now it is not official but the last info from Linde about that was "still working hard to find a way to make the good news happen!"
And some surprises! As you know ville plays as Moto Moto in Madagascar 2. In HIMTube you will find parts of the Finnish version.
And this is a very seldomly available version of Gone With The Sin. It was edited primary for germany. There are scenes from the normal version, as well as some extra scenes with naked bodies!
What new? Well not much at all! Apart from the news that Linde got engaged to Toni-Marie Iommi - the daughter of the guitar legend playing in Black Sabbath - Toni Iommi.
Linde has a daughter at the age of 7, named Olivia. The mother is Mariam "Manna" Jäntti, who is actually in the music fields as well and has two full albums released.They never got married. For more information che out here - Bibliography.
As for the band there's not much to be said. Weak summer tour, no tour dates for the fall, even weaker sales of Screamworks and nothing for the last single Scared to Death. Just to mention as a comparison that in Finland Venus Doom, who was thought to be not so successful, were sold ~23 000 copies. From Screamworks to that very moment are sold about за ~16 000, while back in the days Razorblade Romance reached 100 000 copies, and only the single Join me - 30 000! Such a pity!... The album did not deserve such a poor faith but the managers seem to not trully care....
Linde, on the other hand achieved a great success with his side heavy project - Линде Daniel Lioneye. There is a small chance that he will tour during the spring in Finland and UK, but let's wait and see...
What could we expect in future? Me, personally, am hoping after the failiar of Screamworks that Ville will get over it as soon as possible and start working on new stuff. Do not worry too much. There is no information about new album or songs or whatever but it has always been thins way with him...after finishing something, he starts working on something brand new and so on, and so forth... They most probably will perform for a few concerts around New Year and fingers crossed that by then we will be aware what is going on in there heads for the future...
Maybe some of you have watched the movie Smallville!? It seems like in one of the episodes they have used Wicked Game! You could see the video from here- HIMTube
So here is the next hosted by him from GoTV. I had some problems with the audio delay but now its seems to be ok. Also I had to resize the video because Ville's part were shot in 16:9 aspect ratio but the music videos were in 4:3. Hmm well thats it.. :)
Download: Video: compressed to ~700kbps, 512x384, 4:3 Audio: compressed to - 64kbps, 44100hz
Nothing new around the band. They play on some of the summer fests and that's more or less what they do right now :) Let's hope that Ville actually do create the new stuff ;)
Now let's talk about the completely new project of Burton, for which I wanted to talk about for some time. The project is called Metel , and the album Absurd of creation. Listen to it and you will get the idea behind the name!
The members: Aleksi Santavuori - Violin, Kantele, Birch-bark horn and Distant whimper Emerson Burton - Keyboards, Noise box and Oral moods Aki Trygg - Guitar, Hazard percussions, Bicycle bells and Voices
The album was out on 1st of May 2010 and is being on sale only as Vinyl. It's been recorded between October 2008 and January 2009 during a few improvised sessions. It contains 10 tracks:
01. Balaena 02. Brickum 03. Part 1. Divided fotons 04. Part 2. Stuert of Soho 05. After ski 06. Let m?m tel 07. S.O.C 08. Pork 09. Part 1. Before 10. Part 2. After
You can listen to a few songs via MySpace , but as it seems, they are a bit different from the album's versions.
All right so... HIM started the summer tour already with two gigs in Germany last week. In very good health and with uprising mood the guys rocked last night again at ROCK AM RING!
Official photographs from the event ara available - HERE!
And of course from us a video to download! :) And later on keep on cheking for the whole concert!
Today is the final day from the USA tour, in New York. What comes is one month break and stright afterwards the summer festivals. Between 4-6th of June they will rock once again at Rock Am Ring, the most favourite of most of us summer fest :) It is funny that they are playing only 7 gigs for the summer by now, but let's pray that they will release new dates.
The other funny thing is that they have been quite late with the release of Scared To Death single. It is available only as mp3 download version on Itunes with 3 tracks: 1. Scared to Death 2. Scared to Death (Acoustic version) 3. Scared to Death (Instrumental)
As you already know Linde's album - Daniel Lioneye Vol. II was out on the 27th of April. From HERE you can download the Promo Fhotossesion with high resolution. And THIS е is one of the fewest interviews of him. He answers 21 questions regarding the album :)
There is a new Download system in the website now. You can give it a try in WinAmp Skins menu.
The article from PRO ROCK Magazine is being uploaded as well thanks to smile-reni from the forum. In The Arms Of Love
In HIMTube is uploaded interview with Ville that they showed on ELIT on BNT!
The pages underneath have been uploaded and renewed: Song Library - New Screamworks tracks Albums - Daniel Lioneye Vol. II & Screamworks: Love in Theory And Practice Specials - Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice (Limited Edition) Singles - Heartkiller (Maxi Single)
This is how, most probably, the cover of the single Scared To Death going to look like. It is supposed to be released in April. The video is already on the music channels! It was filmed in Melbourne by Eugene Riecan in the beginning of March.
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Ville is with new haircut! This time shorter that the Dark Light era! Pictures are available in the forum! Click
Ville also participates in one of the songs from the new album of Anathema. The album should be released on 31 of May and is entitled We're Here Because We're Here, and the song, in which Ville takes part is Angels Walk Among Us. More...
Polls - New one regarding whether you like the new video Scared To Death. In the previous one you chose Ode To Solitude for a favorite from Screamworks. The second place goes to Katherine Wheel,and the third to Dying Song. The rest are available from HERE!
Photos and a video from HIM's gig at HMV Picture House, Edinburgh on the 15th of March, sent by Athea are uploaded. By the middle of this month the band would promote the new album in USA and for the summer they are coming back to Europe especially for the festivals that take place at that time of the year. Let's hope that they will visit us as well or at least some neighbour countries. More photos are available in Live Photos
Right now the band is recording the second video of Screamworks. The place is Melbourne, Australia, where the band is touring at the moment. It is still vage what the video would be like, as well as which is the chosen song, but it is most probably Scared To Death. See here...
So 9 years after releasing his first album The King of Rock'n Roll, Linde is coming back with his new project Daniel Lioneye and the album "Vol. II". Completely different and quite heavy, the album contains 9 songs and is expected to be released on 27th April 2010. This time in the project participate only Burton (HIM/ keyboards), Bolton (Enochian Crescent/drums) and Linde (guitar, bass, vocals).
You can hear 1 minute from each song on from here: TheOmegaOrders
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
Athea from the forum was in London at the St. Valentine's Secret Gig and didn't miss to share all the materials from the big event! Her review as well as all the pictures and youtube videos you can access from HERE.
You also can download Like Saint Valentine from the gig with HD quality!