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Brazilian reporter Mayra Dias Gomes has posted the following interview in her blog:
“About a month ago, shortly after returning from Vegas, I published on my column a summary of my latest conversation with H.I.M. front man Ville Valo. You can easily find a scan of that online, as many of the H.I.M. fan sites posted it and translated it, but I cannot post the actual text which is owned my newspaper, Folha de São Paulo. Since I am fully aware of how passionate H.I.M. fans are, I promised to post the transcript of our conversation, which happened about thirty minutes before Ville went onstage.. .” click here to read the full transcriptSource: Mayra on Facebook
Brasilian writer Mayra Dias Gomes met up with Ville Valo in Vegas to interview the singer. Part of their conversation has been published in Folha de São Paulo in her column “On the Road”. Mayra has kindly shared the interview on her blog. For those of you who don’t read Portuguese, here is a translation of Mayra’s article: Read the rest of this entry »
Kelly from Euro Rock Radio caught up with Ville Valo during the HIM Tour in Dallas. The interview was aired yesterday on the ” HIM Night” show but if you missed it, you can listen to the whole interview at the Euro Rock Radio website by clicking here.
Hiili Hiilesmaa, finnish musician and producer, is well known among HIM fans for having produced many of HIM’s albums as well as both albums of Daniel Lioneye. The Heartagram Path had the opportunity to interview Hiili about about his experience as a musician and producer, as well as his work with HIM. You can read the interview here.
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“It’s sad but true. Few bands can dive headfirst into heartache and come out of it sounding evil. HIM wield that unsavory, ungodly and undeniable power. Yes, it’s the time honored tradition of being heavy enough for the boys in the crowd and heart-y enough for the girls, yet no one really possesses that dynamic anymore. HIM bubbles over with it—right down to their Heartagram logo.(…)”
HIM dazzles a sold out Wiltern last night and ARTISTdirect.com editor and Dolor author Rick Florino captures it all in this exclusive review…
HIM start their US tour with Philadelphia on March 26th. Campus Philly interviewd Ville Valo about their visit to the US and more:
Campus Philly: I’m sure you’ve been asked this a million times, but for our readers who might not know, can you give a little background on the name of the band and how it came about?
Ville Vallo: No ones been asking that in the past gazillion years, so it’s great. We first called our band Black Earth because Black Sabbath was first known as Earth. We’re huge fans… [With the name change], we wanted something similarly horrific for the band. I don’t know where exactly it came from, but someone came up with the name His Infernal Majesty, and at 15-years-old it sounded ridiculously cool.
CP: Why did you decide to go by the abbreviation?
VV: In the 90s when all the churches started to burn in Scandinavia, people started to think we had something to do with it, so we instituted H.I.M.
CP: Your heartagram symbol is everywhere now, from tattoos to shoes. What’s its origin and what does it mean?
VV: The day I turned 20…I was just doodling. I loved the four symbols Led Zeppelin had and White Zombie with Rob [Zombie] had a lot of visual aspects of rock and roll. It’s one of the more fun things for the band and I’m really super proud of it. My dad was an artist and I was brought up appreciating art. I was hoping some of that would rub off on me and I’d get to incorporate it into the band and I’m glad that it has.
CP: Last month, you released your seventh album, Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice, Chapters 1–13. The title is so intricate. What’s the story behind it?
VV: It’s one of those things like the heartagram, it just popped out of my head. I love the word ‘works,’ as in the collected works of an artist, like T.S. Eliot or whoever. And then with ‘scream,’ you think of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” I also thought about Aleister Crowley who wrote kind of a mythology of rock and roll in Magick in Theory and Practice. For me, love and relationships are the magic. They are the unexplainable; at least I can’t explain them in theory or mathematical terms. So I replaced ‘magick’ with ‘love’ because I can’t see any logical explanation for it.
CP: You’re kicking off the U.S. portion of your current tour here in Philadelphia. Is there any particular reason why you decided to start here?
In the latest issue of Kerrang! Magazine, Ville Valo talks about his life on the road (and air). A 4 page interview worth reading! Info on how to get your hands on this issue at www.kerrang.com.
Read more about the interview at Valo Daily…
Big Cheese Magazine has posted a (long) sneak preview of their interview with Ville Valo, which will be available in the next issue of Big Cheese. You can view the web exclusive interview here.
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