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Formed: 1995
Official Site: www.heartagram.com
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HIM frontman Ville Valo seems totally at
home sitting poolside at his hotel in L.A. Sipping tea between cigarettes, the
lead singer of the first Finnish band ever to go gold in the U.S. is happy to be
back in L.A. after spending months at home recording the ba |
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| Date |
Time |
Location |
Venue |
| Oct.18.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Sayreville, Ne |
Starland Ballroom |
| Oct.19.2007 |
8:00 pm |
D.C., Wa |
9:30 Club |
| Oct.20.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Boston, Ma |
Sonar |
| Oct.21.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Worchester, Ma |
Palladium |
| Oct.23.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Detroit, Mi |
Rotal Oak Theatre |
| Oct.24.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Toronto, |
The Docks Nightclub and Concert Theatre |
| Oct.25.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Chicago, Il |
Congress Theatre |
| Oct.26.2007 |
8:00 pm |
St. Louis, Mo |
The Pagent |
| Oct.27.2007 |
8:00 pm |
St. Paul, Mn |
Myth |
| Oct.30.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Omaha, Ne |
Sokol Auditorium |
| Oct.31.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Kansas City, Mo |
Uptown Theater |
| Nov.02.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Denver, Co |
Ogden Theater |
| Nov.03.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Salt Lake City, Ut |
Avalon |
| Nov.06.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Calgary, |
MacEwen Hall |
| Nov.07.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Edmonton, |
Edmonton Event Center |
| Nov.09.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Vancouver, |
Croatian Cultural Centre |
| Nov.10.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Seattle, Wa |
Showbox SoDo |
| Nov.11.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Portland, Or |
McMenamins Crystal Ballroom |
| Nov.13.2007 |
8:00 pm |
San Francisco, Ca |
The Warfield |
| Nov.14.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Los Angeles, Ca |
Orpheum Theatre |
| Nov.17.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Las Vegas, Nv |
The Joint |
| Nov.20.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Dallas, Tx |
The Palladium Ballroom |
| Nov.21.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Houston, Tx |
Warehouse Live |
| Nov.23.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl |
Revolution |
| Nov.24.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Orlando, Fl |
Hard Rock Live |
| Nov.25.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Atlanta, Ga |
Tabernacle |
| Nov.28.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Myrtle Beach, SC |
House of Blues |
| Nov.29.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Norfolk, Va |
Norva |
| Nov.30.2007 |
8:00 pm |
Philadelphia, Pa |
Electric Factory |
| Dec.01.2007 |
8:00 pm |
New York, NY |
Nokia Theatre |
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HIM frontman Ville Valo seems totally at
home sitting poolside at his hotel in L.A. Sipping tea between cigarettes, the
lead singer of the first Finnish band ever to go gold in the U.S. is happy to be
back in L.A. after spending months at home recording the band’s follow up to
2005’s Dark Light, the aforementioned gold record. Then again, if the
quintet hadn’t been at home during the dark, cold winter months they might not
have recorded the aptly named Venus Doom, an album that Valo describes as
being “Like a trip into my personal hell to a certain extent.”
Musically, the album is the dark, hard
rocking soundtrack necessary to accompany Valo’s downward descent. “I felt that
we needed a lot less keyboards and there was just going to be more punching to
the face type of thing,” Valo says, referring to the differences between Dark
Light and Venus Doom. “The whole vibe seems fresh cause the direction
we had with the last album we couldn’t go further. So the album sonically is a
bit more sparse. That’s the direction we’re heading; heavier, doomier, and
gloomier, and it’s great to tour that kind of stuff.”
HIM will get the chance to see how the new
material translates to the stage over the summer when they join Linkin Park, My
Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, and more on the main stage of L.P.’s
Projekt Revolution tour. “All the bands are kind of crossover in what they do,
that’s really interesting,” Valo says. “This is the first kind of traveling
festival type of thing we’ve done cause they don’t have anything like that back
in Europe, so it’s exciting.” He’s also intrigued by the eclecticism of the
tour. “That’s one of the reasons we wanted to be there,” he says of the mix of
bands.
When talking about the musical references in
the album, Valo rattles off Sabbath and old-school Metallica. That rock
authenticity and ferocity are evident from the opening match that kicks off the
incendiary title track. The savage intensity is kept up in the machine gun style
attack of “Love in Cold Blood,” a track that explodes in a vicious guitar solo.
The trademark HIM sense of melody is found both in choruses throughout and in
tracks like “Dead Lover’s Lane,” as well as the acoustic “Song or Suicide,” a
track recorded at L.A.’s historic Chateau Marmont.
Working with producer Tim Palmer (U2, Hot
Hot Heat, Switchfoot), who helmed Dark Light, and Hiili, the man behind
the controls of the band’s first album, the quintet has created a journey
through many moods and feelings. Often times, as on the title track, the epic
10-minute plus “Sleepwalking Past Hope,” and the Zeppelin-infused closer,
“Cyanide Sun,” that journey is an intricate one encompassing a diverse series of
sonic landscapes in the span of a single song. “In this one we have a bit longer
songs so arrangement-wise there’s more differences within the song,” Valo says.
“We wanted that contrast, having really nice beautiful melodies and then having
that really crunchy guitar thing in there; so to have the balance between the
right and wrong so to speak.”
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