An Angel from the Darkness

New Issue!

Nina Kate gets neon-bright on the cover of our new issue! Plus, have your freakiest year ever!

Real-life Grinch, pooing logs, racist Santas! The weirdest Christmas traditions and customs in the world!

2010: Year of the Freak!

Next year is looking bright for Nina Kate! See the neon-nymphet's full shoot only in this month's Bizarre Magazine!

Plus: From Alice in Wonderland to Lauren WK! the music, films,  TV, alternative fashion, performers, trends, art, body modifications, and alt.models you'll be enjoying in the year to come!

And: Bears playing ice hockey! Tiny town - the smallest village in the world! Checkerboard boy and tattooed megastar Matt Gone! Simon Drake visits weird collector Sandy Lechtick! And loony, cartoony, balloony performer and tranny-punk icon Ryan Styles!

Exclusive interviews with Malcolm McDowell! HIM's Ville Valo! Clive Barker! Lo-brow art legend Shag! Masuimi! MissAssSnatch! 'Art Tart' Rose Popay! Gaggle! And we ask Lita Ford if she prefers cophrophilia, necrophilia or bestiality!

And: Find out all the details of our cover girl competition!

Plus: The world's smallest mum! Children's city! Goose grabbing! Gigantic plastic breasts! Dead pool tips! Hello Kitty anniversary! Bizarre's Christmas Party pics! Fangtasia party pics! Fake hymens! Pigs with tits! Tons of brilliant stuff to buy and crazy competitions!

More: Sexy Ultra Vixens, Pia Kaamos gets caged in the name of fetish fun! Memorial tattoo! Your tattoos! Proud to be Different! Tattoo competition! Your art! LOADS of reviews!

And how to make a Hannibal Lecter victim out of a shaved coconut and three packs of jelly.

As ever... Let us know what you think!

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And because lists are cool..

50 Crisis by Alexisonfire
49 Permission to land by The Darkness
48 Blessed Black Wings by High on Fire
47 Relationship of Command by At The Drive-In
46 The Green Album by Weezer
45 Volcano by Satyricon
44 Orchestra of Wolves by Gallows
43 Holy Wood by Marilyn Manson
42 From Here to Infirmary by Alkaline Trio
41 Take to the Skies by Enter Shikari
40 Worship and Tribute by Glassjaw
39 Ghost Reveries by Opeth
38 Love Metal by HIM
37 Jane Doe by Converge
36 Bleed American by Jimmy Eat World
35 Ire Works by The Dillinger Escape Plan
34 Riot! by Paramore
33 A Fever You Can't Sweat Out by P!ATD
32 II: A Bustle In Your Hedgerow by Down
31 Vol 3: (The Subliminal Verses) by Slipknot
30 Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavoured Water by Limp Bizkit
29 Black Holes and Revelations by Muse
28 Mutter by Rammstein
27 City of Evil by Avenged Sevenfold
26 Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation by Fuenral For A Friend
25 Puzzle by Biffy Clyro
24 Death Magnetic by Metallica
23 With Teeth by Nine Inch Nails
22 Ascendancy by Trivium
21 The End of Heartache by Killswitch Engage
20 Lateralus by Tool
19 Start Something by Lostprophets
18 The Poison by Bullet For My Valentine
17 21st Century Breakdown by Green Day
16 All Hope Is Gone by Slipknot
15 White Pony by Deftones
14 Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park
13 Origin of Symmetry by Muse
12 The Black Parade by MCR
11 Songs For The Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age
10 Leviathon by Mastodon
9 From Under The Cork Tree by FOB
8 The Blackening by Machine Head
7 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket by Blink 182
6 Toxicity by SOAD
5 Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge by MCR
4 A Beautiful Lie by 30 Seconds to Mars
3 Iowa by Slipknot
2 Absolution by Muse
1 American Idiot by Green Day

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Though the first single ["Heartkiller"] from HIM's upcoming 7th studio album, Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice was just released to the masses less than 72 hours ago, the UTG offices have been jamming to the group's most inpsired effort in years for over a week now! For those of you already familiar with the band, you'll be happy to learn that HIM is still HIM only now they have more energy and seemingly more enthusiasm about their material than we've seen in awhile. Tracks like the haunting "Disarm Me" or the heavy, heavy "Like St. Valentine" pulsate with heartache and musicianship like no other band today is capable of achieving. In fact, much of the album booms with this nearly unfathomable scale of song structure and composition that is destined to set the bar for all other 2010 rock releases to follow. There's not only your normative dark, ambient tones over fuzzed/distorted guitars, but there's also elaborate orchestral sections, blazing solos, and so much more that I don't want to give away just yet as we still have to post a review of the entire album. For those who only know the group through Bam Margera or perhaps have never actually listened to the band, now is the time to jump on the bandwagon. Once this album impacts, I think everyone will be vying for a piece of these young Finnish rock legends. For now though, just know this: Screamworks is a heavy, romantic, dark, evil, beautiful, and breathtaking work of art that you definitely won't want to miss. -James Shotwell source

HIM-yhtyeen laulaja Ville Valo sanoo uhranneensa elämänsä rock'n'rollille.

 

"Mutta mitä mä olen tässä uhrannut? Terveyteni ja mielenterveyteni ehkä, mutta se on pientä suhteessa kokemusmäärään."

 

Suomen seuratuimman rockyhtyeen kansainvälinen läpimurtolevy Razorblade Romance julkaistiin tasan kymmenen vuotta sitten, ja seuraava albumi Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice ilmestyy helmikuussa. Sitä ennen yhtye soittaa perinteiset uudenvuodenkeikat Tavastialla.

 

Valo on tyytyväinen siihen, ettei menestys tullut äkkirysäyksellä.

 

"Jos levyt olisivat myyneet vielä enemmän, meillä olisi varmasti vielä tyhmempiä ja kalliimpia elämäntapoja."

 

Vähän hitaammallakin tahdilla rockelämä on vaatinut veronsa.

 

"Mä olen nähnyt koko sen kaaren ja päätynyt vieroitushoitoon Malibuun. Enää ei ole jäljellä kuin kuolema", nykyisin kahvilla ja virvoitusjuomalla käyvä Valo ironisoi.

 

Translation

 

Ville Valo has also seen the rock of life in the shadows

 

HIM's lead singer Ville Valo is preparing for the coming year tour in the hometown of Helsinki.

 

HIM's singer Ville Valo says uhranneensa life rock'n'roll.

 

"But what I'm invested in this? Health and mental health might be, but it is small in relation to the amount of experience."

 

Finnish rock band tracked by international breakthrough album Razorblade Romance was released exactly ten years ago, and the next album, Scream Works: Love in Theory and Practice is published in February. In the meantime, the band plays the traditional New Year's Eve gigs at Tavastia.

 

Lighting is pleased that, after the success of äkkirysäyksellä.

 

"If the disks were sold even more, we would certainly be less intelligent and more expensive ways of life."

 

A bit slower pace of life is a rock called their toll.

 

"I've seen the size of its arc and came to addiction treatment Malibu. It is no longer left than death", is currently attending the coffee and soft drinks bit ironical about the Light.

Poll

What is your album of the decade?

• A PERFECT CIRCLE Mer de Noms [2000]
• AC/DC Black Ice [2008]
• AIRBOURNE Runnin' Wild [2008]
• ALICE IN CHAINS Black Gives Way To Blue [2009]
• ANTHRAX We Have Come For You All [2003]
• ARCH ENEMY Anthems Of Rebellion [2003]
• AT THE DRIVE-IN Relationship Of Command [2000]
• AUDIOSLAVE Audioslave [2002]
• AVENGED SEVENFOLD City Of Evil [2005]
• BLACK LABEL SOCIETY The Blessed Hellride [2003]
• BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE The Poison [2005]
• CAVALERA CONSPIRACY Inflikted [2008]
• CAVE IN Antenna [2003]
• CHILDREN OF BODOM Are You Dead Yet? [2006]
• CLUTCH Pure Rock Fury [2001]
• CONVERGE Jane Doe [2001]
• DEFTONES White Pony [2000]
• DEVILDRIVER The Last Kind Words [2007]
• DIMMU BORGIR Death Cult Armageddon [2003]
• DISTURBED The Sickness [2000]
• DOWN II: A Bustle In Your Hedgerow [2002]
• DRAGONFORCE Inhuman Rampage [2006]
• DREAM THEATER Systematic Chaos [2007]
• ELECTRIC WIZARD Dopethrone [2000]
• EMPEROR Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire And Demise [2001]
• ENSLAVED Isa [2004]
• FEAR FACTORY Digimortal [2001]
• GOJIRA From Mars to Sirius [2005]
• GRAND MAGUS Iron Will [2008]
• HEAVEN & HELL The Devil You Know [2009]
• HIGH ON FIRE Blessed Black Wings [2005]
• HIM Dark Light [2005]
• ICED EARTH Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Part 1) [2007]
• IN FLAMES Come Clarity [2006]
• IRON MAIDEN A Matter Of Life And Death [2006]
• JUDAS PRIEST Angel Of Retribution [2005]
• KILLSWITCH ENGAGE The End Of Heartache [2004]
• KORN Untouchables [2002]
• LACUNA COIL Comalies [2002]
• LAMB OF GOD New American Gospel [2003]
• MACHINE HEAD The Blackening [2007]
• MANOWAR Gods Of War [2007]
• MARILYN MANSON Holy Wood [2000]
• MASTERS OF REALITY Deep In The Hole [2001]
• MASTODON Crack The Skye [2009]
• MASTODON Leviathan [2004]
• MAYHEM Ordo Ad Chao [2007]
• MEGADETH Endgame [2009]
• MEGADETH United Abominations [2007]
• MESHUGGAH Nothing [2002]
• METALLICA Death Magnetic [2008]
• MOTÖRHEAD Motörizer [2008]
• NEUROSIS A Sun That Never Sets [2001]
• NIGHTWISH Once [2004]
• NINE INCH NAILS With Teeth [2005]
• OPETH Blackwater Park [2001]
• OPETH Watershed [2008]
• OZZY OSBOURNE Down To Earth [2001]
• PANTERA Reinventing The Steel [2000]
• QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Rated R [2000]
• RAMMSTEIN Mutter [2001]
• SATYRICON Now, Diabolical [2006]
• SLAYER Christ Illusion [2006]
• SLIPKNOT Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses [2001]
• SYSTEM OF A DOWN Toxicity [2001]
• TESTAMENT The Formation Of Damnation [2008]
• THE DARKNESS Permission To Land [2003]
• THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Miss Machine [2004]
• THE HAUNTED The Haunted Made Me Do It [2000]
• TOOL Lateralus [2001]
• TRIVIUM Ascendancy [2005]
• VELVET REVOLVER Contraband [2004]

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HELLDONE 2009 SCHEDULE

 MONDAY 28.12.2009    Doors: 20:00  Club TarTar Djs: 20:00 - 21:30  Support (Tavastia): Flamer 21:30 - 22:15  SEMIFINAL (downstairs): The 69 Eyes acoustic 22:20 - 23:05  HIM  23:10 ‐ >  Club TarTar Dj's  Curfew: 03:00     

TUESDAY 29.12.2009    Doors: 20:00  Club TarTar Dj's  20:00 - 21:30  Support (Tavastia): Ghost Brigade 21:30 - 22:15  SEMIFINAL (downstairs): The 69 Eyes acoustic 22:20 - 23:05  HIM  23:10 ‐ >  Club Tar Tar Djs  Curfew: 03:00   

 WEDNESDAY 30.12.2009    Doors: 20:00  Club TarTar Dj's: 20:00 - 21:30  Support (Tavastia): Vanity Beach 21:30 - 22:15  SEMIFINAL (downstairs): The 69 Eyes acoustic 22:20 - 23:05  HIM  23:10 ‐ >  Curfew: 03:00   

THURSDAY 31.12.2009    Doors: 20:00  Club TarTar Dj's: 20:00 - 22:00  Support (Tavastia): Major Label 22:00 - 22:45  SEMIFINAL(downstairs): Anathema Acoustic 22:50 - 23:50  HIM  00:00 ‐>  Club TarTar Dj's ‐>  Curfew: 04:00       

 AGE LIMIT: 18 (Strict)

The voting is called "Rautaa vai roskaa" (=Iron or trash) and it's weekly organized by Radio Rock. Usually the songs from bands like HIM get dissed in a hearbeat (you probably are familiar with the phenomenon) so we must fight back and make Heartkiller rautaa (=iron) this week!

http://www.radiorock.fi/ohjelmat/rockin_iltapaiva/rautaa_vai_roskaa.html

- cast your vote by clicking the red bar that says "RAUTAA"! (If you click the bar that says "ROSKAA" you vote against Hearkiller.)

- if you want to comment on Heartkiller, you can do it after you have voted: you should now see the voting percentages and a button that says "Kommentoi". Click the button and fill out the form that appears. "Kommenttisi" (=what you want to say about the song), "Nimi" (=your name), "Email", "Puhelin" (=your telephone number*) and "Ikä" (= your age). When you are finished click "Lähetä" (=send).

*Most likely they won't be calling you when they see that your number is foreign. So no worries.



credits/source/fonte www.radiorock.fi

HERE'S THE LINKS

 

CD.

http://www.amazon.com/Screamworks-Love-Theory-Practice-Him/dp/B0030BOCKK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1260499938&sr=1-1-fkmr0

LIMIT EDITION

http://www.amazon.com/Screamworks-Love-Theory-Practice-Him/dp/B0030BOCEG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1260499938&sr=1-2-fkmr0

VYNIL

http://www.amazon.com/Screamworks-Love-Theory-Practice-Him/dp/B0030BOCIW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1260499938&sr=1-3-fkmr0

The line-up to both events is similar to the UK leg of the Festival with a couple of key changes, notably the addition of Heaven & Hell and HIM in Finland and just Heaven & Hell in Sweden.

The wait grows shorter and shorter... "Heartkiller", the brand new single from Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice", will be available at iTunes in most of Europe this Monday, December 7. US, Canada, Latin America on December 8, Greece on December 10, France on December 14, The UK on February 1, and in Germany on February 5. Mark your calendars

 

source:www.heartagram.com

 

Dec 28 2009 7:00P	Helldone Festival - Tavastia stage	Helsinki
Dec 29 2009 7:00P	Helldone Festival - Tavastia stage	Helsinki
Dec 30 2009 7:00P	Helldone Festival - Tavastia stage	Helsinki
Dec 31 2009 7:00P	Helldone Festival - Tavastia stage	Helsinki
Feb 20 2010 2:00P	Soundwave Festival - RNA Showgrounds	Brisbane, Queensland
Feb 21 2010 2:00P	Soundwave Festival - Eastern Creek Raceway	Sydney, New South Wales
Feb 26 2010 2:00P	Soundwave Festival - Melbourne Showgrounds	Melbourne, Victoria
Feb 27 2010 2:00P	Soundwave Festival - Bonython Park	Adelaide, South Australia
Mar 1 2010 2:00P	Soundwave Festival - Steel Blue Oval	Perth, Western Australia
Mar 8 2010 8:00P	DOCKS	HAMBURG
Mar 9 2010 8:00P	PARADISO	AMSTERDAM
Mar 10 2010 8:00P	FZW	DORTMUND
Mar 11 2010 8:00P	ROCKHAL	ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE
Mar 13 2010 8:00P	UEA	NORWICH
Mar 14 2010 8:00P	ACADEMY	MANCHESTER
Mar 15 2010 8:00P	HMV PICTURE HOUSE	EDINBURGH
Mar 16 2010 8:00P	O2 ACADEMY	NEWCASTLE
Mar 18 2010 8:00P	O2 ACADEMY	BOURNEMOUTH
Mar 19 2010 8:00P	O2 ACADEMY	BIRMINGHAM
Mar 20 2010 8:00P	ROCK CITY	NOTTINGHAM
Mar 20 2010 8:00P	ROCK CITY	NOTTINGHAM

 

SOURCE: WWW.HEARTAGRAM.COM

Don't worry about trying to hear it on Finnish radio. HIM will be debuting Heartkiller on their Myspace page tomorrow, December 4th. I got a press release emailed to me but the news is now also on Blabbermouth.

But don't just rip it and put it elsewhere on the net guys. Point people to the Myspace page and then go buy the single on Tuesday!

http://www.rocksins.com/2009/12/h-i-m-sample-of-new-album-track-available-2278/

 

HIM audio samples available

Finnish rockers H.I.M. have released a sample of their new track 'Heartkiller', which is available in the widget below.

The band recently announced that their new album, entitled Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice, will be released February 9th, 2010 in North America.

Check out the album artwork on the left (click image to enlarge). Dates for the rest of the world will be revealed soon.

Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice tracklisting:

'In Venere Veritas'
'Scared To Death'
'Heartkiller'
'Dying Song'
'Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)'
'Love, The Hardest Way'
'Katherine Wheel'
'In The Arms Of Rain'
'Ode To Solitude'
'Shatter Me With Hope'
'Acoustic Funeral (For Love In Limbo)'
'Like St. Valentine'
'The Foreboding Sense Of Impending Happiness'

Further updates to follow.

In the latest issue of Rockoon Magazine comes an interview with Ville Valo where he speaks about the new album. The interview has been translated ... by wato_food from valo daily (thanks).

Translation:

A grey Monday in Hamburg is the right setting for HIM and their new release Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice.
Ville Valo came to see us personally when the first sonic impressions of the seventh studio album by the finish heartbreakers were given to the press. A perfect time to talk with the charismatic lead singer about his newest creation, his plans for this year's Christmas and his New Year's resolutions for 2010.

Rockoon: Hello Ville - lovely to see you. Are you excited about presenting the new album to the press?

Ville: Let's put it this way: I am nervous. But not because of the new album, cause this time I'm totally satisfied with it. You just put loads of time in it. Therefore it is really lovely that it is finally done. I feel absolutely agitated and enthusiastic about the album, now that the baby has finally been born.

Rockoon: How where the reactions to it so far?

Ville: Really good. But the reactions of the journalists aren't as important as those of our fans who will hopefully like it. It is always a game and you never know the outcome.

Rockoon: In fact, I do think that especially your female fans will love it as it isn't as doomy and bulky as Venus Doom.

Ville: Of course it isn't as doomy as Venus Doom, but that just happens automatically. Back then we have listened t a lot of My Dying Bride, Cathedral, Anathema or Paradise Lost as well. And those bands have influenced us on Venus Doom a lot. But when we went on tour with those songs, we realized that it's totally different to play overlong songs live. So we wanted to write shorter songs again, songs that come to the point quicker and are more melodic.

Rockoon: Which song is going to be the first single?

Ville: I think it will be Heartkiller. Basically I usually don't care which song is going to be the first single as I believe in the album as a whole. But it is also important that a song combines all the aspects of the album in itself and is radio friendly at the same time.
I personally look at Heartkiller as a good accommodation to give the fans a first taste of the whole new album. It has, like all the songs on the album, alternative guitars and a huge melodic chorus. We could have taken a whole lot of other songs as the new single as well, it is the same for the other songs. So there is no mystic stuff behind our choice.

Rockoon: What kind of attitude do you (the band) have when your recording a new album?

Ville: We usually have the motivation that it will be our last album. Screamworks was simply supposed to be a rock album with 80s synthies and direct choruses to sing along. It was supposed to be more than doomy and sad. We didn't want a Venus Doom II. When I started to write the songs, the guitars were going into the direction of rock´n'roll and metal on their own. We probably got inspired by Rage against the Machine and the Stone Temple Pilots in that matter, but also by classic metal bands like Megadeath and Type O Negative.

Rockoon: I personally was surprised that some songs sound happier. What happened during the last year?

Ville (laughs): That is funny. I think it depends on how you are feeling in life at the moment. Maybe you are happy at that moment in life and therefore experience the songs as happy. Cause basically it is about the understanding that life is fucked - and to celebrate this. That it is absolutely okay to make mistakes and that you don't have to hide them but to stick by them, to learn from your mistakes and to just go on... simply "fuck off". That's probably the punk attitude of the album. Honestly I have to tell you that there were emotionally much harder albums for me. Those have been dark, really dark. A friend told me that Screamworks sounds like a different kind of darkness. (laughs)

Rockoon: The happy side of darkness.

Ville: Not necessarily happy. It is more as if you were wandering over the waters of the ocean of melancholy, but not really diving in. Lyrically it is sad, but you just can't stop jiggling your butt and having a good time. Therefore I wouldn't call it a "happy" album.

Rockoon: How about hopeful?

Ville: Exactly. Screamworks is a hopeful album. Being happy I don´t care about - I don´t give a shit. Hope is what is more important for me, that there will come something positive out of all this shit. We all know, bad stuff will happen, so let's just celebrate this knowledge and condition. Let us go down in a blaze of glory. To sum it up: It sounds the way I feel in my head right now. But I am totally happy that I am so creative at the moment and that some experiences lie behind me.

Rockoon: Do you have a favourite song on the album so far?

Ville: Difficult. So far I love the album as a whole. Out of a lot of different reasons I like Disarm me. I wrote that song back in 2002 and finally it worked out. It has taken forever until we got a grip on it. I also totally like Dying Song as the guitars and the drumbeat remind me of Interpol. In turn the chorus has again a really rocking The Cult vibe. Maybe I even like this song the most.

Rockoon: The name of the album sounds really long and complicated at first. What does it stand for?

Ville: I just love it if there is anything in art that contains the title "Selected Works of...". And I also really like the expression "works" a lot. I am a huge fan of Andy Warhol's Factory when lots of different artist have worked under the same banner. And we did have this "factory-feeling" while we were rehearsing as well. Scream just matches this word perfectly as I scream a lot on the album. Those are screams of torments, screams of joy and also primal screams. I wanted to go to the limit, get everything out of me, that's why I scream so much. (laughs)

Rockoon: And what about theoretical and practical love?

Ville: I think it is really poetic as it is indeed paradoxical. From my point of view love is nothing theoretical and at the same time there's nothing practical in love. Love is never practical. Machines are, humans and love are not. That's exactly what it is. It is the "Yin & Yang" -concept behind it. Of course we know, from fairytales, that there are things that can make love develop. But I don't believe in such things. In my opinion 80% of the people compromise when it comes to love. They take what lies next to them to satisfy themselves and society.

Rockoon: Meaning they take the easiest path.

Ville: It is easy for the moment, but basically not. In the end it is even the hardest path. A marriage without love is unbelievably hard, isn't it. But I personally think that one day the door will open and someone will step into the room and everything around me will change. That might sound like a child talking. But I like the power of this believe. Such a thing, besides love, can only do drugs and alcohol.

Rockoon: Only a few weeks till Christmas. How are you going to celebrate it?

Ville: Christmas is the time of the year when we, as a band, take some real free time. That is the only tradition we have as a band. Christmas, for me, is not about presents, it is simply about having the time to enjoy traditional meals and watching telly with my younger brother and my parents. As my mother and I are vegetarians it will probably be salad again. (laughs)
It is really the only time of the year in which we can all relax. Although it is just a day and we are not doing anything special it is always wonderful.

Rockoon: Do you have any New Year's resolutions for 2010?

Ville: I want to go on a holiday in January. We were doing quite a lot this year and do need a break before the new album will be released. I don't have any other resolutions as I usually tend to break them. (laughs) Quitting smoking doesn't make any sense. Either you smoke or you do not smoke.

Rockoon: Do you already have plans for your upcoming tour in Germany?

Ville: We hope to be able to play a special gig around the release date. We try to make it happen in whole Europe. Then we will be touring Australia, the UK and North America. The first real chance for the German fans will be around the festival season I guess. But nothing has definitely been planned yet. As we are not the biggest band in the world, we have to wait until the biggest bands have made their decisions (laughs)

Roockon: Are you looking forward to the upcoming tour? It is well known that you are not one of the biggest fans of such trips.

Ville: The concerts themselves do make a lot of fun. But life in a tour bus can sometimes be hell. And you do eat a lot of junk that mostly contains pizza and coke. When you're doing this over months it is not a really nice experience. But as long as the fans are really enjoying the shows, it is a wonderful experience and it does outweigh the negative aspects of a tour.

Rockoon: 2010 you will be celebrating the 15th anniversary of HIM. Is there anything special planned?

Ville: That is hard to tell when a band has really formed. We are all school mates who have been doing music together since the early 90s. In fact there is something to celebrate every year. 1996 we got our first record deal for example. Or look at Join me - we could celebrate the 10th anniversary of the single release now.

Rockoon: It has been 10 years already...

Ville: Crazy, isn't it? It is such a long time, but it feels like yesterday. We could celebrate all the time, cause we are still in the business.

Rockoon: Where do you get your motivation after all the time?

Ville: It is great to be able to write songs and to have the opportunity to record and release them, to put your words into music. I didn't know what to do else instead of making music.

Rockoon: What would you do today if you weren't a musician?

Ville: Hard to tell, I'd probably studied something, but in fact I have never had the ambition to do anything else but music. I always wanted to be a musician.

Rockoon: Thanks for your time, Ville. Do you have some words for your German fans?

Ville: That is usually the hardest question. (laughs) How about that...
Be patient and make sure there is some paper before you go to the toilet.

Big Cheese asks the question

WHOSE NEW ALBUM ARE YOU MOST EXCITED TO HEAR IN 2010?

http://www.bigcheesemagazine.com/

HIM seem to be winning so far!!
HIM will be appearing in issue 118 of Big Cheese.

 

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MP3 Songs

Song Title Time Price     1. Heartkiller (Album Version)

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From Lugene Chicks MySpace:

New HIM single debut on Finland radio - list of radio stations
According to a DJ friend in Helsinki, the following stations will debut the new HIM single "Heartkiller" in December:

ylex.yle.fi
radiorock.fi
radiocity.fi
helsinkiradio.fi

For a list of radio stations in Finland, go to: suomi.fm/radiokanavat

ylex.yle.fi is Finland National Radio and will definitely be airing the new single in December.

Gather around!

 

credits Valo daily

Credit to HIM's Official Myspace page: myspace.com/heartagram



The Hunt for Heartkiller!
'Heartkiller' will be the first single from Screamworks. Want to be FIRST to hear it??

We've hidden the letters H-e-a-r-t-k-i-l-l-e-r across the official HIM universe - on Heartagram.com, HIM's Facebook, MySpace, Street Team and more. Look for the characters <3H, <3E, <3A, <3R, <3T, <3K, <3I, <3L, <3L, <3E, <3R.

The first to find all letters and send a screenshot or description of where each letter is located to huntforheartkiller@gmail.com will receive the honour of being the FIRST fan to get a taste of the new song, a new album artwork t-shirt, and a special edition package of 'Screamworks'.

5 runners up selected randomly from all correct entries receive the new 'Screamworks' album art t-shirt.