28.02.05

HIM @ The Warfield 26.02.05
HIM did a great show when they rocked San Francisco on 26.02.2005. The Setlist was as follows:

BABL
Sweet 666
Sacrament
Wicked Game
Fortress of Tears
Solitary Man
Razorblade Kiss
Its all Tears
Join Me
RHIMA
Poison Girl

Encore:
In Joy and Sorrow
Soul On Fire

Some pictures of that show can be found here and here and if you want to read some reviews click here.

26.02.05

TWO WITCHES - Saints And Sinners £13.95
Review
One of the first Gothic bands from Scandinavia, Two Witches strike back with an energetic Best Of album released in Double CD format. Featuring famous musicians from the Scandanavian Goth scene (such as Anne Nourmi from Lacrimosa and Ville Vallo of HIM fame who appears on the exclusive track "Dracula Rising" and performs guitars on the track "Madman").
Including many highlights from the bands 17 year career "Saints And Sinners" includes exclusive remixes from Project Pitchfork, Suspiria and Soil & Eclipse plus exclusive collaborations with Shade Factory, Gintronic and Nyx. The Two Witches sound is a mixture of balladesque and melancholy, celebrating glittering, rough gothic rock ( reminiscent of Bauhaus, Love Like Blood or Joy Division ) with metal elements and melodies, bitter-sweet atmospheres, great hook lines and the dark sensual vocals of lead singer Jyrki Virtanen.
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Format
2CD
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Tracklisting
Disc 1 :-
01. The Sinner
02. Requiem
03. We All Fall Down
04. The Dark Angels Of Sin
05. Maybe Next Year
06. Winter
07. My Own
08. Spirit Sacrifice
09. Dead Dog's Howl
10. Bites & Bloody Kisses
11. Vampire ( Crimson Mix )
12. The Omen
13. May You Be In Heaven ( Piano Version )
14. Talvenaika
15. Agony

Disc 2 :-
01. Spirit Sacrifice
02. Irresistible
03. Open Your Eyes
04. The Dark Angels Of Sin
05. Pimeyden Jousi
06. Cat's Eyes
07. Dracula Rising
08. The Angel Of Pain
09. Witness Of Twilight
10. Madman
11. Jyrki Witch & Martin Kasprzak - Judgement Day
12. Two Witches Featuring Shade Factory - King Volcano
13. Gintronic Featuring Two Witches - Fear Of The Dark
14. Nyx Featuring Two Witches - Shadows
15. Shadowdance
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Record Label
SMD
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Release Date
7th March 2005
(taken from ourdiabolikalclub.gr)

24.02.05

Love Metal Archives Vol 1
The DVD entitled LOVE METAL ARCHIVES VOL1 will be in the stores in Europe in late April/May and contains video or live versions of 53 songs, rare interviews and other special extras. (taken from heartagram.com)

Honey Baby
The film, Ville wrote “The Path” for the sountrack for will be released tomorrow.

23.02.05

HIM rock Ruisrock 2005!
HIM are confirmed to rock the Finnish Ruisrock Festival 2005. The festival takes place from 08.-10.07. in Turku.

HIM DVD
The HIM DVD will be released this spring. However there is no fix date yet.

Info HIMparty / UK
Bands to rock HIMparty in the UK
The following bands will rock you @ the HIMparty in London on April 16th:

Private Line will headline the party
Vero
also appearing will be MAB, who supported HIM at their Hammersmith gig last year
Narcissus Pool

Tickets for this event will go on sale 9am on Wednesday 23rd of February. And will be available from www.meanfiddler.com
By the way to avoid any missunderstandings HIM will not be appearing, but this event is happening with the bands blessing and full support.
So everybody who's going a lot of fun!

19.02.05

HIM Buddy Icons
On heartagram.com you can get yourself 4 different buddy icons. Here are the correct links:
Icon1         Icon2             Icon3           Icon4

18.02.05

HIM party in London
Date - 16th of April 2005
Venue - Highbury Garage, London, UK
Doors from 3pm until 11pm with free entry to the club afterwards
Your compere for the day will be TWANG from www.totalrock.com and will also be carrying out DJ duties alongside DJ Angel (Electric Ballroom, Purple Turtle, Inferno)!
Tickets go on sale 9am on Wednesday 23rd of February. Tickets will be available from www.meanfiddler.com
(It wil not be advertised until extremely near to the day of sale, a direct link through to the tickets will be posted here enarer the time)
Age is 14+
Bands will be playing...
The day will include exclusive HIM Memoribilia for charity auction and also for competitions throughout the party
Further Details Updated Daily on HIMonline.tv forum. So stay tuned for more sweetheartz.

69 Eyes interview online
The 69 Eyes interview for HIMforfans.com is online since now. Check out what Jussi and Bazie told us for Suicide Rock. Enjoy it.

14.02.05

New stuff for the new section
Hi sweethearts, we just got back from our weekendtrip where we interviewd “The Other”, “The 69Eyes” and “The Vision Bleak”. This interviews can be read in a few days. So keep checking “Suicide Rock” for this.
A happy valentines day to all of you
love,
HIMforfans.com

Suomen Kuvalehti
The Finnish magazine “Suomen Kuvalehti” published an article about HIM. In the article “Suomen Kuvalehti” compares HIM with the Fin. factory “Sunila”, a Finnish cellulose factory. They compare their influence on the Finnish economy. There are also some funny pictures, showing Ville during the interview and while visiting the factory.

Heartagram discussed in the new “Entertainment Weekly”
There is an article on new Entertainment Weekly on four bands and their "logos". It says the following about HIM and the Heartagram:
VO: the logo is coming from somewhere - it might be Celtic or occult - but there's no real imagination, there's no wit. It seems naive, like it's the first stage.
DC: It would make very good T-shirt or sticker, which is one of the criteria of a good logo. I can see kids wanting this on their shirts. I'm curious to hear their music, but I wouldn't be surprised if I didn't like it. (taken from Darksecretclub.com)

10.02.05

New Section: Suicide Rock
Hi everybody, from today on HIMforfans.com has a new section called “Suicide Rock”. This section is not really about HIM but it has to do with music. You will be able to read interviews with different bands out of the rock scene and with people who work for them “behind the curtains”. Besides the interviews you will get some general info about each band to introduce them to you in case you shouldn`t know them. Today we are starting with “Isabelle`s Gift”, a band from the US with whom Ville worked together for a sideproject last year. Read what it was like to work with him and how “Isabelle`s Gift” felt when they supported the “Bloodhoung Gang”. For the near future we have confirmed interviews with “The 69 Eyes”, “Hanoi Rocks”, “Lacrimas Profundere”, “The Vision Bleak” and many more. So stay tuned for that.
Love always, HIMforfans.com

LOVE METAL U.S. CHARTS
LOVE METAL debuted at #117 on the Billboard album chart this week. It's also #1 on the Billboard Heatseeker chart. The Heatseeker chart is for new artists. (taken from Heartagram.com)

09.02.05

Downloadfestival again
HIM will play on saturday, 11.06.05, the same day as Black Sabbath and Velvet Revolver. Ticketprice for a normal weekendticket is 105 pound. There are different types of tickets available. For prices plz check the festival site.
The previous weekend June 3-5 HIM will be at Germany's Rock am Ring and Rock im Park. The exact dates for this festivals will be announced shortly.

08.02.05

HIM to rock Downloadfestival
HIM will play at this year's downloadfestival (10.-12. June 2005) besides some other great musicans like Velvet Revolver, Black Sabbath, System of a Down, Slayer, Slipknot,... tickets will be available through ticketmaster.

Your vote for Emma Gala
The 2005 Emma Gaala is taking place on February 26 at Helsingin Kulttuuritalolla in Helsinki. For the second time, you can vote in the category, "MTV's Emma Gaala Award For Best Video," and the only place you can do it is right here. Cast a vote for your favourite video of the year!
For more info on the Emma Gaala and all the nominees, go to www.emmagaala.fi!

07.02.05

Isabelle's gift & Ville
Ville did backing vocals for the song "If I Die Tonight" from the American band Isalbell's Gift for their album "American Idle". For more info on the band, ville worked with click here. (thanks to Shakes from the board of TheSacrament.net)

04.02.05

Greek Rock & Roll magazine
This month's Greek music magazine Rock & Roll has a 5page article about HIM! The article includes the interview taken from HIM by Our Diabolikal Club at the press conference before the New Years Eve Concert. (thanks to OurDiabolikalClub)

02.02.05

Lucky winners
HIM was voted as best Finnish act at the “Up North Award”. Just click here to view a short video, some screenshots we made to be seen here.

01.02.05

(My) Bloody Valentine party - Love Bites in Greece
Greek 69 Eyes fanclub "LoSt BoYs" in collaboration with Greek HIM fanclub "DarkSecret Club" invites you to one more of those special dark 'n romantic pre-valentine nights (3d continuous year), on Saturday February 12th at the new space of 8 Dytika club. Always with low lights and loud music- the club welcomes you to your annual rendez-vous with gothic, rock, industrial, death rock sounds in a..cliche night for dirty, dark engagements and valentine lovers.
For more info click here