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Listening to HIM is like getting hit over the head with a valentine, except on the front of the card, on the cartoon cupid, frontman Ville Valo has drawn devil horns and a dangling cigarette and signed "love, your sweet 666." The valentine wafts faintly of tobacco, not perfume, and on the inside youre more likely to find a couple drink tickets to the local bar instead of candy hearts. Based in Helsinki, Finland, the band HIMcompleted by bassist Mige, guitarist Linde, drummer Gas and keyboardist Burtonhas taken rock romanticism, cranked up the volume, added a dash of sardonic humor and created a signature sound that critics have dubbed "love metal." HIMs music is the gloom and doom of Black Sabbath meets the tragic romance of Depeche Mode. Its the soundtrack to a young romantic crying through vintage eyes and heavy metal sunglasses, wiping his tear stained face on his Iggy Pop and the Stooges t-shirt, smearing his eyeliner. But its not all that depressing, when the music kicks it kicks hard and there are more than a few songs than can be called upbeat. The music has charisma and the fans know it.




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Interview with Ville Valo