HIM - His Infernal Majesty

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Based in Helsinky, FINLAND, HIM -- AKA His Infernal Majesty -- was founded in 1995 by the charismatic frontman, singer + bassist & songwriter Ville Hermani Vallo who assembled the band around guitarist Mikko 'Linde' Lindström and bass player Mikko 'Mige' Paananen. At that time Vallo switched from bass to vocals and he enlisted drummer Juhana Rantala to complete the line-up.

The next year saw Janne 'Burton' Puurtinen joined as keyboard player and the band released an EP which showcased their distinctive sound, a mix of Goth-Rock, Metal and a touch of Industrial.

In 1997, after Antto Melasniemi replaced Burton on keys, the group released their debut full-length disc, "Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666"; it contained the cover of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" which received massive airplay all over Europe.

During the following years, keyboardist Zoltan Pluto stepped in to replace Melasniemi, a few months later Rantala also left, Gas Lipstick replaced him on drums.
By the fall of 1999 the band recorded a single entitled "Join Me" for the movie soundtrack of the film "13th Floor"; this track was issued in the the U.S. four years later credited under the moniker of 'HER' while a Chicago outfit had already registered the name HIM.

The band's second effort, 2000's "Razorblade Romance", was a massive smash in Finland, it established them as a major European NuMetal act and went on to sell one million copies.

Pluto left the group in early 2001 to concentrate on his studies and Burton was called to replace the keyboardist; HIM unleashed their third album, "Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights", a year later.

In April of 2003 the band released "Love Metal", the album shot to #1 on the Finnish and Germans charts and generated the U.K. top 20 hit single "The Funeral Of Hearts".
By this point, HIM accepted the proposal of the Universal Record company to represent them in America, consequently both their second and third full-length discs crashed into the top 10 of the Billboard Magazine's Top Heatseekers Albums chart.
"Love Metal" rose to the top spot on the same chart, upon its U.S. release in February 2005 and reached the #117 position on The Billboard Top 200 Albums list.

The band's next album, "Dark Light", come out in September 2005; it peaked at #18 on the U.S. Top 200 chart and went gold highlighted by the first single, "Wings Of A Butterfly" which crawled up to #19 on The Modern Rock Tracks.

Two years later followed "Venus Doom", the 9-song set achieved a career-best peak of #12 in the U.S. however, its main single, "Kiss Of Dawn", failed to crack the official British Top 40 chart, the first HIM single in four years that has not made it to the top 40 in Britain. The second single, "Bleed Well", completely missed the charts.

The Finnish metallers will release their seventh full-length CD, "Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice", in the U.S. on February 9, 2010. The disc was recorded at a Los Angeles studio and includes the single "Heartkiller".

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Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666

(1997)

1. Your Sweet Six Six Six
2. Wicked Game
3. The Heartless
4. Our Diabolikal Rapture
5. It's All Tears (Drown In This Love)
6. When Love And Death Embrace
7. The Beginning Of The End
8. (Don't Fear) The Reaper
9. For You

 

Join Me
[single]

(1999)

1. Join Me [radio edit]
2. It's All Tears [unplugged]
3. Rebel Yell [live]
4. Dark Secret Love

 

Razorblade Romance

(2000)

1. I Love You (Prelude To Tragedy)
2. Poison Girl
3. Right Here In My Arms
4. Gone With The Sin
5. Razorblade Kiss
6. Bury Me Deep Inside
7. Heaven Tonight
8. Death Is In Love With Us
9. Resurrection
10. One Last Time
11. Sigillum Diaboli
12. The 9th Circle (OLT)

 

Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights

(2002)

1. Salt In Our Wonds
2. Heartache Every Moment
3. Lose You Tonight
4. In Joy And Sorrow
5. Pretending
6. Close To The Flame
7. Please Don't Let It Go
8. Beautiful
9. Don't Close Your Heart
10. Lover You Like I Do
11. Again

 

Love Metal

(2003)

1. Buried Alive By Love
2. The Funeral Of Hearts
3. Beyond Redemption
4. Sweet Pandemonium
5. Soul On Fire
6. The Sacrament
7. This Fortress Of Tears
8. Circle Of Fear
9. Endless Dark
10. The Path
11. Love's Requiem

 

Dark Light

(2005)

1. Vampire Heart
2. Wings Of A Butterfly
3. Under The Rose
4. Killing Loneliness
5. Dark Light
6. Behind The Crimson Door
7. The Face Of God
8. Drunk On Shadows
9. Play Dead
10. In The Nightside Of Eden
11. Venus (In Our Blood)
12. The Cage

 

Venus Doom

(2007)

1. Venus Doom
2. Love In Cold Blood
3. Passion's Killing Floor
4. The Kiss Of Dawn
5. Sleepwalking Past Hope
6. Dead Lover's Lane
7. Song Or Suicide
8. Bleed Well
9. Cyanide Sun

 

Cover-Art posted on heartagram.com

Screamworks
Love In Theory And Practice

(2010)

Tracklisting posted on heartagram.com

1. In Venere Veritas
2. Scared To Death
3. Heartkiller
4. Dying Song
5. Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)
6. Love, The Hardest Way
7. Katherine Wheel
8. In The Arms Of Rain
9. Ode To Solitude
10. Shatter Me With Hope
11. Acoustic Funeral (For Love In Limbo)
12. Like St. Valentine
13. The Foreboding Sense Of Impending Happiness

 

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