Less than a month after the release of Tears On Tape the album is at the very top of the charts of the best-seller album. In Finland and Germany the album is on the 2nd place. In Billboard Top Rock Album's classation it is #1, #1 on Vinyl, #3 on Rock, #3 on Alternative and #8 on Physical! In the States more than 20,000 copies were selled out only during the first week. This is the second album to achieve so intense sales since 2005 Dark Light. In general all was good until the beginning of the tour. At the very 1st gig, however, Ville had an asthma attack and the tour has been cancelled. What matters is that he is already feeling better and standing on his feet. Later on new dates for the autumn were released.
As for heartagram.com all seems to be under the veil of a huge mystery. Practically there is no website, but an amazing video of Linde and Lucifers Chorale is uploaded. :)
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Here it comes, only a few days seperate us from the release of Tears on Tape. I guess you all have already listened to it and even have a favorite song. At least thats what I can say concidering the poll, where the battle is challenging! However, we have no information why after all the stuff that fell into the internet, there is still no videos for both Into The Night and All Lips Go Blue. In the same context the official webpage is still kept mute. This delay of the potential videoclips might be explained with a slight change into the plans ( like once upon a time when Buried Alive By Love was filmed before Funeral Of Hearts, but released weeks after) But this does not explain why only 5 days before the official release heartagram.com is a complete mess...although it is obvious....they will run it in 5 days! :D
Just on the second week Tears On Tape [single] is in the winning-positions in radio Z-Rock TOP40! Keep voting every 24 hours - http://www.zrockbg.com/rock40
The logo of the webpage has been changed with the release of Tears On Tape era!!!
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Today in the morning Tears On Tape was already in the cyber space. As long as we all ordered the album, it's all good ;) To the rest, enjoy the listening...
During this week Tears on Tape video was released - you can see it from HERE and HERE. The other two videos for All Lips Go Blue and Into The Night are expected in the next few days or so.
And surely the new POLL - Which is your favorite song from Tears On Tape?
The photo session of the band for 2013 is available from Razor&Tie and in huuuge scale and quality in case you want to print them as a poster.
The video for All Lips Go Blue was filmed in the beginning of the week by Eugene Riecansky (Scared to Death, Ode To Solitude). The videos of Into The Night and Tears On Tape are ready and already some people managed to see them. Probably on Monday-Tuesday they should be released into the web void!
This month we are choosing two videoclips :) for long those videos were almost impossible to find. I think this made them a bit special, and probably some people haven't seen them still. Enjoy! ;) HIM - Poison Girl, Right Here In My Arms (Southside Festival 2000)
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3 different singles with 3 different video clips filmed in 3 different countries!This was the hot issue that Ville and Mige spilled out in this week's Kerrang. All Lips Go Blue will be a single in the UK, Into The Night in Finland, а Tears On Tape in Russia. The videos for Into The Night and Tears oN Tape are already shot, wheareas All Lips Go Blue is about to be shot. The video director is Stefan Lindfors (The Funeral Of Hearts)!
While we were talking, 30 second preview of Tears on Tape have been downloaded from Amazon. However, till the leaking of the album there are only 45 days and obviously at this stage this doesn't do much change.
All Lips Go Blue will be the 1st single of the upcoming Tears On Tape. This was announced by Ville himself on radio Kerrang a few days ago. A new video montage is up to come, which means, that until the 5th of April it should be done.
Razor AND Tie have released a webcite for sale of the album + t-shirts or switchers, vinels, etc. They are unique but be careful as the cost of the delivery is pretty salty. edited
You can already hear 30 secunds preview from each song of Tears On Tape - Аmazon. From the same link it can be seen the length of each song and therefore the whole album. It seems like the shortest in the band's history so far. 40:56, and without the instrumental parts around 34:30.
1. Unleash The Red 1:07 2. All Lips Go Blue 3:49 3. Love Without Tears 3:37 4. I Will Be The End Of You 3:33 5. Tears On Tape 3:21 6. Into The Night 3:36 7. Hearts At War 3:46
8. Trapped In Autumn 1:33 9. No Love 3:30 10. Drawn & Quartered 5:13 11. Lucifer's Chorale 1:18 12. W.L.S.T.D. 4:12 13. Kiss The Void 2:21
It looks like all is messed up right now. There is no website, no information, it's not apparent which song is gonna be single , there is no videoclip, or information of the filming of one. The date of the album release is for the end of the next month , while there is something like 40 % of the album in the internet already. Back in 2010 30 seconds samples were released in Amazon, only 10 days before the release of Screamworks. Today is the 47th day before Tears On Tape, and they are already there.
In the official HIM facebook page the message that there will be very very soon more information of the album was shared. Many people believe the release date would be change for earlier. All this is still yet to be clearfied in the first days of the next week.
The text of the Into The Night have been added to section Texts. In the forum you will be able to see the new photo of the band for 2013. FORUM
Into The Night is already on radio Yle in Finland. I guess this night at some point it will be possible to access via youtube. . I guess most of you have already heard Tears On Tape, which was played on radion Moscow!It seems though that this never was supposed to happen because it wasn't approved by the managing team of the band. Who would suspect that 50 days before the release of the album we would have heard 3 full new songs plus one live version.With this development of the events it wouldn't be surprising if the whole album leaks out into the net by the end of March, which me personally hopes not to happen ... :D
What kinda suz is that due to the lates data the album will contain 4 instrumental songs! Unleash The Red is the album's intro. Kiss The Void is the outro. The other 2 are Trapped In Autumn and Lucifer Chorale. What is left ti be heard from the album you can estimate pretty much yourselves...
While we are waiting for the new look of heartagram.com - Monday evening at 24:00 All Lips Go Blue totally ruld over the radio stations in the UK. This is the most favourite track of Ville from Tears On Tape. He says himself that the album will sound heavier and more melodious than ever... for now we can agree...:)
Thousands of copies are already sent to different media and promoters and the reviews are terribly good! The emphasize is put on songs such as When Love Starts To Die, Hearts At War etc.. Obviously Tears On Tape looks like it might be the best that the band has ever made...да бъде най-доброто, което някога бандата е записвала...to spike the sceptics...
Into The Night - was announced as the first single to the album by Universal Music Finland, and the release of All Lips Go Blue shouldn't change the picture and probably would be included to the single or would be a singular radio single. Or maybe they changed their opinion at the very last moment and it will be the first single. All this is going to become clear in the next 2 weeks. Usually the videoclip is released a month before the album itself, so there are only a few days to pass..
All about the album you could find in our forum while All Lips Go Blue can be easily acceptable on youtube.
Still not completely official, but most probably this would be the new album cover of Tears On Tape.
More hot news! Universal Music Finland will be the label to release the HIM album in Finland. In their opinion Tears On Tape will be released in Finland the worldwide on the 26nd of April, while in USA and UK on the 29th. The first single would Into The Night, and not as predicted by Ville himself from the gigs at Tavastia, I Will Be The End Of You. Moreover, the band will be playing in Germany - Berlin and Koln on 22nd and 24th of April.
As for now our prediction have been justified completely - HIM are touring in the States during May, which means the autumn is Europe...Greece, Romania, Bulgaria ;)...wherever we wish.