30.09.05

Popcorn (German mag)
In the current issue of Popcorn you can find a two page article about HIM.
Popcorn Page 01 & Popcorn Page 02 (thanks to Fledermauz)

Alternative Press
In the November issue of Alternative Press you can find 4 pages about HIM. Click on the following links to view them (credit: Bernie):

AP 01   :   AP 02   :   AP 03   :   AP 04

Ralf Strathmann
was the photographer for the official promotion pictures from 2005. If you want to see some more of his wonderful work click on his homepage.

29.09.05

On Tour
Sorry for being so late up to date. Now you can find in our “On Tour” Section everything about the shows. There are also additional dates for Dublin, Birmingham and Manchester. So check the Schedule.

This weeks Kerrang
In this weeks Kerrang mag you can find a review of the sold out London show on 19th September 2005, a new interview with Ville, Promotion for the new album and the chance to win the new Dark Light autographed poster. Scans can be found here:
001 : 002 : 003 : 004 : 005 : 006 (thanks to huggybecky for scanning)

Classic Rock mag
In issue 85 of the UK-mag Classic Rock you can find a three page interview with Ville with the title: "You don`t know HIM but you should..."

Big Chesse
In the current issue of "Big Cheese" (UK) you can find Ville on the cover and a 6- page report about HIM. You can also find a review about "Dark Light" in it.

Metal Hammer
In the current issue you can also find a review about "Dark Light".

HIM store
At heartagram.com is the new HIM store open. Now you can order your favourite merchandise from there. Go shopping!

27.09.05

Dark Light
Today the American and Spanish fans can buy their copy of the brandnew album “Dark Light”. There will be another special limited edition which will include a DVD with the making of Dark Light by Bam. This special edition will be in stores on 03rd October in a hardback cover with a booklet containing special artwork and handwritten lyrics by Ville.
The message from Ville for you:
“Hello my darlings,
The hour is here - our album Dark Light is in stores today. The months leading up to the day have been wonderful we appreciate your love and support. See you soon,
-Ville”

Heartagram.com
The official page heartagram.com is up with a new design. Check it out now!

HIM need your support
At Fuse you can vote for Wings of a butterfly. The winners will be shown on Friday at Fuse`s Oven Fresh Keepers. Fuse`s Oven Fresh is broadcasted dialy at 01:30 pm.

Metal Edge
In this magazine you can find another big article about HIM which is called "Shining through Dark Light"

Suosikki
In the latest issue of the finnish mag Suosikki you can find an long article about HIM.

26.09.05

Rennbahn Express
In the current issue of Rennbahn Express (Austria) you can find a poster of the whole band and an article.

Star Hits
In this mag you can find a poster of Ville.

Motor.de
On this German page you can find a report about our lovely band.

Dark Light Reviews
You can read one review about Dark Light by clicking here. If you have some more reviews, it would be nice if you could send the links for them to us.

Ville on TV
At got tv you can see Ville on 29.09.05 at 22:00h and on 01.10.05 at 11:00 h. To read more click here.

25.09.05

Last European gig
Yesterday the guys did a great job at their show in Amsterdam. So if you are able to read and understand Dutch you can read a review here. If you are unable to read the review you can visit the page indeed and view some pictures. But they will come back to Europe after their US gigs in the beginning of 2006. So don`t be sad but a bit patient if you haven`t got the chance to see one of their wonderful shows. The first UK dates are announced but Manchesterm, Birmingham, 24th January and London shows are already sold out. So do not wait to long and order your tickets as fast as you can. The missing reviews will follow as soon as possible. But please don`t forget to send us YOUR reviews and pictures. We want to show the gigs from different views and so we need your help. Send us your reviews and photos and we will publish them in the next days on the page.

HIMforfans`Competition
First of all thanks for your mails and that so many of you took part in this competition. The lucky winners, who will get a promo picture package will be announced now. Congratulations to:
Tommi K. from Helsinki (Finland), Birgit E. from Küps (Germany), Cristina T. from Prevalle (Italy), Tamara W. from Schopfheim (Germany) and to Marco C. from Oulu (Finland).
To all other ones, don`t be too sad, we try to do another competition in the future again.

Radio Interview Soundgarden
On Monday, 26.09.05 you can listen to a radio interview of Radio Fritz with Ville. Just check the Livestream on 20:00 o`clock. More info...

"In Bed With Ville"
In the currrent issue of Kerrang (issue 1075) you can find an article of HIM. By clicking here you can view the
scans. (scanned by Mamucium from the Valo_Daily LJ community)

Blender
In the October issue of Blender you can find an one page article about HIM.

Revolver
In the new Revolver issue you can find an article about HIM,

Dark Light
You are just one simple click away from listening to the new album of HIM. If you want to listen to it click and if you visit myspace of heartagram you can listen to a stream with influences on the album. You can also listen to it, if you unlock the next door. Password is 09362492842

Wings of a butterfly
After 1st week in Finnish single chart a brilliant single Wings of a Butterfly has gone to number 1. Congratulations to HIM! (credit: Thelmi)

Sleepwatching Vol.1
Asleep By Dawn Magazine Presents: Sleepwatching Vol. 1. On this DVD you can listen to a six minute interview of Ville.

News on heartagramteam.com
Some days ago we received the following mail:
"My Dearest Darlings,
As we walk towards the release of Dark Light, the time has come upon us to engulf the world with the Dark Light. September 27th will be our day. I have entrusted you, the Darlings, to inform the world of this day. I have created a Crusade to use the strengths of every single Darling. We are embarking on an online AND offline Crusade starting today. Do not relent in this until the Dark Light is upon us.
Beyond the two new missions, there are tons of items in the Media and Journal sections with more coming everyday.
GO TO HEARTAGRAMTEAM.com to log in.
The Gatekeeper"
You want to join? Just click the heartagramteam.com and register.

They will also organize a human heartagram. If you want to join this beautiful moment in L.A. on Monday, the 26th September, you will need to be at Tower Records 8801 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood at around 11 or 11:30 p.m. You will need a homemade HIM jacket, decorate it with HIM and Heartagrams and stuff. Hope you'll be there, it will be filmed, and there will be some amazing give aways. You will be able to buy the new CD, and the Gatekeeper and Darling666 will be there!!
If you have questions or need more information, e-mail Darling666 or go to his MySpace.

18.09.05

Making of Wings of a Butterlfy
The key to open the new door on heartagram.com is :092705. Inside you can see "the making of Dark Light".
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
Link 4
Link 5
Link 6
Screencabs are to follow soon.

16.09.05

Pre-listen the complete album
HIM`s new album Dark Light will be in stores on 23rd September in Germany and Ireland, 26th September internationally and 27th September in the US, but you can hear the complete record streaming starting on Tuesday, 20th September at hottopic.com. There will be a special limited edition of the album that will be covered with a Heartagram band - so make sure to grab an early copy in stores. (thanks to Magda)

Ville and The Bloodhound Gang
As we reported Ville had an colloboration with The Bloodhound Gang. You can hear Ville on the 8th song “Something Diabolical”, which you can find on the upcoming album “Hefty Fine”. The album will be released on the same dates as “Dark Light”.

Two more finnish interviews
In the magazine Soundi and in Sue you can find interviews with Ville. Maybe anyone around here could send us the scans to publish it here!?

Full laut.de interview
Now you can read the full interview with Ville made by laut.de. Just click here and read about the new album, the old and the new labels, about bad and great performances they played and so on.

Some more German mags
In the current issue of Popcorn and in Yam! you can find an article about HIM. And don`t forget: Today the Break Out mag and the new Orkus were released. Both mags includes an article about HIM.

Congrats to HIM
The new single “Wings of a butterfly” got number 10 in the German single charts. (credit: Mary)

HIM at Top of the Pops
On Saturday, 17th September you can see HIM live at TOTP at the German RTL.

More information about Helldone Festival
HIM has for the past 6 years played an exclusive, sold-out-in-minutes New Year Eve’s club show to their most hardcore international fans at their home base in Helsinki, Finland. Now the band has decided to take the much-awaited event onto the next level by expanding the show into a 3-day "HellDone Festival 2005".

Aside headliner HIM numerous other interesting Finnish acts have confirmed their appearance: The 69 Eyes, Negative, Charon, Bloodpit, Bleak, Sunride and Deep Insight. "HellDone Festival 2005" encompasses two floors with the audience being able to move freely between Tavastia and Semifinal, one floor below. Who plays which evening is yet to be settled. Also there might be additional surprise guests. One thing is sure though: every evening the audience has the possibility to test their singing skills at Hevikaraoke! (Hevimetal karaoke)

3-day tickets grant admission every evening. On show night the personalized ticket will be exchanged at Tavastia's entrance for a laminated pass (with the client's photograph) and a wrist band. Each client is required to prove his identity, for example with a valid passport. As a special bonus 3-day ticket holders will receive the festival's poster and t-shirt, which are not available outside HellDone. 1-day tickets will also be sold for each evening. A fierce demand for tickets is expected therefore the number of tickets per purchaser is limited to two.

The package of FinsTours.ch can be booked from 19.09. till it`s sold out on this link. They have 250 tickets for the non finnish market. The package includes the flight, the accomodation and the festival ticket.

15.09.05

Ring in the New Year with HIM in Finland
HIM will be playing at this year's HellDone Festival in Finland at the end of 2005. It's a three-day festival from Thursday 29, Friday 30 and Saturday 31 of December. Other confirmed acts include The 69 Eyes, Negative, Charon, Bloodpit, Sunride and Deep Insight. Who plays which evening is yet to be settled, so stay tuned. Also there might be additional surprise guests.
There will be both 1-day tickets for each evening and 3-day tickets available and customers can only purchase 2 tickets each. Sales start Monday September 19th at 10 am (Finnish time) at Tiketti. You must be 18 and over to attend.
For tickets please send an email to info@tiketti.fi with:
- full names of the max 2 people attending
- their email addresses
- a mention on whether you will be collecting the tickets at Tiketti, once in Finland, or do you wish Tiketti to send them to you
- complete address to which the tickets should be sent to if you choose this option
Please check the purchase policy and delivery prices at http://www.tiketti.fi/. You will receive further instructions by email within 2 days of emailing your purchase order.
For sure you can also order a package from Fins-Tours.

New Years Eve Package
FinS-Tours organizes HellDone package tours, which include a 3-day festival ticket, accommodation in Helsinki and flights from various cities worldwide. For further information in German check Fins-Tours

Win a trip to New York
Kerrang.com, in association with Icelandair, are offering you the chance to see Ville Valo and HIM in New York City, as they unveil their new album Dark Light in the US. We'll fly you and a mate out to The Big Apple, where you'll be put up for a whole weekend and get to see HIM's headline show at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Friday 18 November!
"It's crazy surreal, it's weird, it's David Lynch, it's Tim Burton," says Valo of the new album, which is released in the UK on 26 September, "but with all those things happening within the AC/DC context. You can still shake your hips to it, bang your head, or play air guitar."
For further information and to enter the competition click here. (thanks to katherine)

Sonic Seducer (German mag)
In the current issue of Sonic Seducer is an 8-pages article about HIM. (thanks to villemoon)

Rock Sound (Finnish issue)
In the October issue of Rock Sound you can find an article about HIM, too.

Kerrang (mag of UK)
In the current issue of Kerrang this week (14.09.05) you can find an interview with Ville about the forthcoming gig at London.

Rock Tribune (Dutch mag)
In the current issue of Rock Tribune you can find the whole band on the cover, a five pages interview and some promo pictures.

Ville Interview on GothicParadies
Click here to read an interview (in German) with Ville, which was made before their gig in Munich on 08.09.05.

New gate on heartagram
The key to open the new door on heartagram.com is: Within6the6raven6black6night. Inside you can see two funny videos of the band called Kung-fu and Smoke. If you look at the intro of heartagram.com you will see that the building is rising from the sea and there is rain. This transformation seems to go to the final artwork of "Dark Light", and about the description of Ville will be like one frame on the "Wings Of A Butterfly" video. (taken from h-i-m666.com)

Release Party in Italy
On 24th September 2005 there will be an official release party of Dark Light. It will take place in Bassano del Grappa at Transilvania Live Club. The cover band S.I.N. (we reported about them) will play in this night. (thanks to Mantis)

Secret Gig Pictures
By clicking here you can view some pictures of the Castle gig.

About Tourdiary and Competition
We are really sorry that we haven`t updated your reviews, photos and the winners of the competition but as you might already know we have been on tour and joined every gig (except Helsiniki and Stockholm) and so we have been really busy with everything. But we will work on everything in the next days and try to have an update every day again. So stay tuned.
If you have been to a concert and want to write an review or you took some cool pictures, it is not to late to send it to us. :-)

10.09.05

Tourdiary
From today on you can read our very personal and own tourduiary on HIMforfans.com. Click here to start with the gig at Cirkus Krone, Paris and the secret NJoy gig. Stay tuned for more.

09.09.05

HIM rocked the castle
HIM rocked castle Remis in Bückenburg tonight. The winners of the competition had an unforgetable evening.

30 seconds of Dark Light songs
By clicking h-i-m666.com you can listen to the first 10 songs of the brandnew upcoming album Dark Light. And if you click the Swedish page of warner you can listen also to a small clip of Ville.

Release Parties for Dark Light in Germany
If you want you can join one of the ten release parties here in Germany. Following you can read where and when those parties will be:
23.09.2005 Bielefeld Ringlokschuppen
23.09.2005 Ludwigsburg Rockfabrik
23.09.2005 Magdeburg Factory
23.09.2005 Berlin K17
28.09.2005 Augsburg Rockfabrik
28.09.2005 Wuppertal Pavillon
01.10.2005 Saarbrücken Canossa
01.10.2005 Hamburg Grünspan
02.10.2005 Siegen Meyer
02.10.2005 Messkirch Abby

musicOMH.com Interview with Ville
musicOMH did an interview with Ville while he was on a promotional trip to London. Click HIM - From Love Metal to Dark Light to read that Interview.

Legacy Interview
By clicking here you can read an interview with Ville of the German mag Legacy.

Ville Valo in Finnish tv on 3.9
The Finnish TV show "Huuma" (the finnish version of the Great Britain version of "Ant & Dec s Saturday Night Takeaway") will broadcast an interview with Ville on Saturday, 03rd September 2005 at 20:00 local time on MTV3. (credit: samuli)

04.09.05

!!!Your reviews/pics are needed!!!
You saw HIM rockin at Nosturi or you wittnest the cirkus gigs in Stockholm and Munich? You will see the Paris show or join the guys rockin in London? Great than send us your impression of the gigs and tell us what it was like for you. Tell us what you enjoyd at the shows the most and what you didn`t like at all. Share your concertexperiences with other fans by sending us your reviews & live pics. We are looking forward to read all your stories and to see the pics you made. To send us you very own concertimpressions click here. Please don`t forget to indicate the city,location and date in the subjectline of your e-mail. Thank you very much in advance. To read our Munich review click here.

New UK shows announced & pre-sale
HIM are set to follow their sell out London show on 19th Sept with 3 shows in January 2006. Tickets won’t go on sale to the general public until Tuesday evening but you can make sure you get your tickets from 9am Monday moring with getLIVE’s exclusive presale.
HIM’s new album ‘Dark Light’ hits the shops on 26th Sept and lead single ‘Wings of a Butterfly’ is available digitally now. Find out more at www.heartagram.com
Demand for the London show was phenomenal so be sure to take advantage of our exclusive presale!
**PRESALE FROM 9AM MONDAY**

JANUARY 2006
Friday 22nd
Apollo MANCHESTER
Friday 24th
Academy BIRMINGHAM
Friday 26th
Brixton Academy LONDON

City Mag
In the new issue of the Finnish City Magazine you will find an article with an interview of Ville. Click here to read the translation.

Mix Magazine
In the September issue of the finnish mag MIX you can find a two page article about HIM.

Greatest Lovesongs Vol.666 US release
Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 will now also be released in the US. The date when the album will come out there is 13.09.2005.

Hear a new HIM song on MYSPACE
Head over to HIM's myspace page (myspace.com/heartagram) and check out the exclusive premiere of "Behind The Crimson Door" from their upcoming album, Dark Light.

More US Dates
venue and ticketinformation coming soon.
11.21.05 Norva Norfolk, VA
11.22.05 TBD Washington, DC
11.23.05 Electric Factory Philadelphia, PA
11.24.05 Electric Factory Philadelphia, PA

MTV TRL
on Wednesday from 16h to 17h HIM will be guest at TRL.

Swedish Competition
Pre-order your copy of "Dark Light" at the Swedish Warner site and you have the chance to win tickets for the New York Show. (thanks to schodda)

Laut.de Interview
By clicking here you can read a German interview with Ville Valo. More of this interview you can read in the near future.

01.09.05

30 seconds of Dark Light songs
At h-i-m666.com you can listen to the first 10 songs of the brandnew upcoming album Dark Light. If you click the Swedish Warner page you can also listen to a small clip of Ville.

Release Parties for Dark Light in Germany
If you want you can join one of the ten release parties here in Germany. Following you can read where and when those parties will be:
23.09.2005 Bielefeld Ringlokschuppen
23.09.2005 Ludwigsburg Rockfabrik
23.09.2005 Magdeburg Factory
23.09.2005 Berlin K17
28.09.2005 Augsburg Rockfabrik
28.09.2005 Wuppertal Pavillon
01.10.2005 Saarbrücken Canossa
01.10.2005 Hamburg Grünspan
02.10.2005 Siegen Meyer
02.10.2005 Messkirch Abby

musicOMH.com Interview with Ville
musicOMH did an interview with Ville while he was on a promotional trip to London. Click HIM - From Love Metal to Dark Light to read that Interview.

Legacy Interview
By clicking here you can read an interview with Ville of the German mag Legacy.

Ville Valo in Finnish tv on 3.9
The Finnish TV show "Huuma" (the finnish version of the Great Britain version of "Ant & Dec s Saturday Night Takeaway") will broadcast an interview with Ville on Saturday, 03rd September 2005 at 20:00 local time on MTV3. (credit: samuli)

Metal Hammer October Issue
In the October issue of Metal Hammer you can read an article of HIM. It has 9 pages with new pictures of Ville and it`s written by Ville himself. Check this link for the scans.

Aftonbladet Chat with Ville
The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet did an chat with Ville on the 30th August - day after the gig in Stockholm and you can read it here. (credit: schodda) If you are able to speak Swedish you can read a review about the show in Stockholm by clicking here.