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Vote for Ville for best Metal Hammer cover!

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Ville and Pekka Himanen In LA - HIM's MySpace Blog |

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Ville and Pekka Himanen In LA - HIM's MySpace Blog |

Helldone Festival 2009 - HIM's MySpace Blog |

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:57:00 +0000

Helldone Festival 2009 - HIM's MySpace Blog |

Helldone Festival 2009
Oh yes, home for the holidays! Life in Southern Cali is really nice, know what I mean? But sometimes it’s good for your soul to feel the extremes - the round-the-clock darkness and the merciless cold. After all it’s a universally known fact that there is no better place to get rid of your studio tan than Hellsinki in late December! Feel that rush again, the blood racing through your veins, feeling a-live! It’s about time, too, knowing there’s an Australian tour looming on the rapidly approaching horizon. And you’ve been itching to slip in some new songs into your set, now haven’t you?

No doubt about it, HIM is in. Then again they always have been, since the first Helldone Festival back in 2005 - and even beyond that. After all, there wouldn’t be a festival in the first place if the band hadn’t made a tradition out of playing New Year’s Eve gigs at their home base, the Tavastia club, starting all the way back in 1998!

Since early August HIM has been working on their seventh studio album in Los Angeles with producer Matt Squire. The working title of the album is “Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice” and it is scheduled to be released on Valentine’s Day 2010. Starving for live action the band has now decided they would love to headline each and every night of the Four Headed Beast from the North that is Helldone 2009!

Get some of your old friends to give us all a special treat, like go acoustic in the intimate surroundings of funky ol’ Semifinal club. Just take a sharp right after the pinball machine, there’s a short set of stairs leading down - voila, you’ve made it!
The 69 Eyes have just released the most electrifying, hard rocking album of their careers in “Back In Blood”. They will arrive at Helldone Festival red hot after an extensive American tour. Perfect timing for a breather, then - a rare chance to unplug and unwind. After a three-night residency of what will without doubt consist of vampire ballads & debauchery they will hand over the reins to Anathema acoustic.
Anathema is of course one of the forerunners of British doom metal. Formed in Liverpool 1990, they have outgrown all genres a long time ago in their ever continuing search for new ways to express feeling through sound. Anathema acoustic is a rare performance of the mellower moments from Anathema, featuring all three Cavanagh brothers with exquisite cello accompaniment. A rare thing to behold, as anyone who owns their recent acoustic album 'hindsight' can testify to.
. Invite the cream of your new favourite bands to open for you. Finland’s Finest - the next generation. Please step forward!
Flamer is the name of the new band of former Bleak frontman and songwriter Caleb. This second time around Caleb has managed to retain everything that was good in his former band, including hit single Fate off the Jade Warrior movie, add some new twists to his music and take the whole thing to the next level. Flamer’s debut album “Molotov Cocktails” is in the pipeline.
The reviews of Ghost Brigade’s 2007 debut "Guided by Fire" were glowing. ‘Impressively atmospheric, dark, intelligent and passionate’, they read. ‘Katatonia's grief collides with the wrath of Neurosis’. The guys from Jyväskylä kept their cool, stayed focused and upped their game with this year’s “Isolation Songs”. Brilliant live band, too!
After having released a handful of singles that received cult status Vanity Beach finally got around to releasing their debut album “A Life Of Vice” earlier this year. Their mission has been from the very beginning to bring back danger into rock & roll. When you listen to their mix of noisy post-punk, haunting synthesizer soundscapes and dark metal overtones, you know they’re on the right track. ‘They sound like Mötley Crüe’s soul looks like’, Metal Hammer famously commented. Everybody knows that’s a scary place to be.
Major Label is a trio from Helsinki, just three guys making this big, big music. You could label their second album “When I Am With You, You Are Safe” alternative metal, but that means you’ve only scratched the surface. The band’s own description of their music takes you a little closer to the truth: ‘our sound is like watching a Michel Gondry movie while simultaneously listening to Sigur Rós and Rage Against The Machine’. The rest is there for you to find out.
The Helldone Festival. Tons of old friends to meet, time to catch up, party to the coolest of tunes. The coolest of tunes… right! Let’s not forget our resident DJ Crew, the infamous Club TarTar DJs. Gentlemen, state your case.
“DJs extraordinaire Ginger Boy, Egyptin Portti and Stereo Ramses will shower you with the best tunes known in Valhalla and beyond. Their mad beatmismatching skillz and feverish scratching will make even the toughest pharaoh dance like a werewolf in the moonlight shadow.”
Yes, people, the Helldone Festival 2009. We promise you four nights of love & magic leading the faithful into 2010. And what a year that is promising to be!

Tickets will go on sale:
Oct 20th at 09:00am in Helsinki, Finland (EEST)
Oct 20th at 02:00am in New York (EDT)
Oct 19th at 11:00pm in Los Angeles, US (PDT)

Helldone Festival 2009
Mon 28th December Tavastia stage HIM support: Flamer + Club TarTarDJs Semifinal stage: The 69 Eyes Unplugged

Tue 29th December Tavastia stage HIM support: Ghost Brigade + Club TarTarDJs Semifinal stage: The 69 Eyes Unplugged

Wed 30th December Tavastia stage HIM support: Vanity Beach + Club TarTarDJs Semifinal stage: The 69 Eyes Unplugged

Thu 31st December Tavastia stage HIM support: Major Label + Club TarTarDJs Semifinal stage: Anathema acoustic (UK)

Tickets: 45 € / night. (PLEASE NOTE: 2 tickets per customer only)
Presale: http://www.tiketti.fi/

Tickets will go on sale Oct 20th,2009 at 09:00 (EET) Age limit: 18 and over Opening hours: 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. (except New Year’s Eve 8 p.m. to 4 a.m.)

Ville Interview For Download - Euro-Rock Radio/Promo's MySpace Blog |

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:00:00 +0000

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Ville Valo Will Join Euro-Rock Radio Sept.8!

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:20:00 +0000

From Euro-Rock Radio-
Ville Valo will be joining Euro-Rock Radio on HIM Night, Sept 8, from LA to give us an update on the new album! More details soon!

HIM at Soundwave Festival!

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:19:00 +0000

News from Heartagram.com:

Soundwave Festival In Australia
HIM will be playing at the Soundwave Festival in Australia in February/March 2010. We will update you as soon as the date(s) the band will be playing is finalized. For ticket information see the festival site here: http://soundwavefestival.com/

Ville Valo Talks About Love, Relationships, Literature, Drinking and Drugs at SPIN Earth.

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:24:00 +0000

http://www.spinearth.tv/report/ville-valo-talks-about-love-relationships-literature-drinking-and-drugs

Official News on HIM's New Album!

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:39:00 +0000

From Heartagram.com:

'SCREAMWORKS: Love in Theory and Practice'
HIM will start recording a new album in Los Angeles in August with producer Matt Squire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Squire). The working title is 'SCREAMWORKS: Love in Theory and Practice' and tentative release date by Warner Records worldwide in early 2010.

Download Euro-Rock Radio's interview with Ville at www.euro-rockradio.com.

New Album News Coming June 9th!

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:36:00 +0000

Listen to Euro-Rock Radio's HIM Night Tues. June 9th for news about HIM's new album!

http://www.euro-rockradio.com/ 8pm Eastern (7pm central, 5pm pacific, 01:00 UK)

We're now on Twitter!

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:53:00 +0000

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Big Cheese and Kerrang!

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:54:00 +0000

Big Cheese and Kerrang Feature plus the Heartagram Day 09 Collection!
HIM is featured in this month’s issue of Big Cheese. Ville is also featured in this weeks Kerrang magazine (Feb 18th) issue. Find out more Here!

See all the Heartagram Day 09 pictures Here!

Euro-Rock Radio's Interview With Ville Valo!

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:44:00 +0000

Check it out at their blog!

Heartagram Day 2009!

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:56:00 +0000

Go to Euro-Rock Radio. com for details and be sure to join us for Heartagram Day!

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Metal Hammer » Blog Archive » Hot 100: HIM

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:15:00 +0000

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Hot 100: HIM
terrybezer / Features (Spanish Inquisition) / 17/12/2008 13:00pm

We tell you all the essential details of what your favourite bands are up to in 2009 in the Hot 100. Today’s edition lets you know what you can expect from the return of HIM.

“We’re in the songwriting phase, but I always am so it never stops,” explains HIM frontman Ville Valo. “The idea is to write number one hits songs… 13 of them,” he adds with a wry smile. “We’ll figure out who’ll produce it early next year and head into the studio in March or April. Hopefully we’ll be done by the festival season and be able to play new songs there. If the album doesn’t come out in autumn or winter 2009, it’ll be early 2010.”

So what can we expect from the new HIM album?

“I haven’t talked to the band for long yet, but I want to keep the songs all under five minutes and make them really punky and direct. When I say punky I don’t mean sounding like punk, I mean punk in feel. Not so much ear candy. I love over-produced albums but we’ve never tried a more stripped-down, simple approach in a Search And Destroy Iggy Pop and the Stooges type vibe. It’ll still be wanky and melancholy and have all those HIM elements, but just not so much ear candy. Venus Doom was quite a proggy album for us so I’m thinking of doing the opposite with this one.”

And as he explains, being sober has brought out his inner bastard, which we will hear on the new material: “I’m more pissed off and more aggressive. There’s no buffer between me and the real world so I’m the proper cunt I was meant to be.”

Ville Valo's Message To The Street Teams

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:48:00 +0000

News From The Heartagram

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:24:00 +0000

Ville Birthday Wishes
Dearest Darlings-
Want to send your birthday wishes to Ville, the heartagram team has created a place for you to send e-cards, video messages, notes or photos.

Please send your warm birthday wishes to:
villebdaywishes@gmail.com

Ville Valo On Radio Bam!

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:26:00 +0000

Listen HERE!

Ville on Radio Bam and TSN Updates!

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:30:00 +0000

Ville will be on Radio Bam, Monday, November 17, 2008. Ville and Deron from CKY will talk about their crazy week and news on what's next for their bands. To hear it for yourself, tune in to Sirius 28 XM 52 at 7:00 P.M. Eastern/4:00P.M. Pacific.

Updates from TSN:
Darlings-
It's once again that time of the year! If you didn't or couldn't cast your vote in Tuesday's election, all is not lost. You can still vote in your favorite candidate in the Kerrang Reader's poll. You can vote as many times as you like.
Now go flex your civic duty and vote!

Vote HERE!

Street Member of the Month

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See the new HIM Heartagram Ornament now at the HIM online store

Finnish Rockers Collaborate For Rock and Roll High School

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:52:00 +0000

SAVE NUTA (Helsinki, Finland) is a musical collaboration involving members of bands like HIM, Scandinavian Music Group, The Latebirds, Donits Osmo Experience, The Wrecking Queens and Stunning Guns. These local heroes got together in order to save their old "Rock'N'Roll High School". This famous youth center in Helsinki's Munkkiniemi is known for its world class recording facilities a.k.a. MD-Studio. The session took place at the studio in question on a grey Saturday afternoon in October 2008. Mixed by Mr. Mikko Karmila and mastering courtesy of our pals at Chartmakers. Special guest on this recording - TOMMY RAMONE!

Credit: Save Nuta

Source: Heartagram.com

HIM's Ville Valo To Voice Madagascar 2 Character

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:51:00 +0000

My Name Is Moto Moto.
Yeah You Say It Double

The Finnish edition of Madagascar 2 will feature our very own Ville as the voice of Moto Moto the Hippopotamus. It hits theaters in Finland on November 19 or 21*, 2008.
Moto Moto has his own song in the movie and he is the wateringhole Lothario that decides to woo Gloria the Hippo because he likes 'em big and plumpy.
Finnish trailer here and here.

EDIT: Finnish trailer with a short clip of Moto Moto and the song here.

You can see Moto Moto and hear his song in English (that will never leave your head once you hear it) at Madagascar 2's site.

*Madagascar's site says the 19th, Finnish news sites are reporting it as the 21th.

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:31:00 +0000

Helldone 2008

TICKETS ON SALE STARTING OCTOBER 15th, 2008 @ 09.00am (EET)

Dec 29, 2008
Tavastia & Semifinal, Helsinki
Stam1na
Diablo
Godsplague

Club Teatria, Oulu
HIM
KYPCK
45 Degree Woman

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Dec 30, 2008
Tavastia & Semifinal, Helsinki
The 69 Eyes
Negative
Sara

Pakkahuone & Klubi, Tampere
HIM
KYPCK
45 Degree Woman

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Dec 31, 2008
Tavastia & Semifinal, Helsinki
HIM
KYPCK
45 Degree Woman

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At Semifinal there will be DJs everyday:
Mon. Dec. 29th TBA
Tue. Dec. 30th TBA
Wed. Dec. 31st: Jussi69

Some of this year's bands have played at the festival before but none has been invited back purely for old times sake. Each and every band in the Helldone 2008 line-up has recently reached important milestones in their careers: be it a killer album, a breakthrough in new territories or a big tour. They all are alive, hungry, fast and furious. And definitely as cool as a December night in downtown Hellsinki.

Helldone 2008 marks the tenth anniversary of HIM's New Year's Eve shows at Tavastia Club - the tradition out of which the Helldone Festival was born. Each night there will be three top bands on the Tavastia stage, while the neighbouring venue Semifinal serves as a chill out zone with some familiar faces spinning records. HIM will traditionally start their set at midnight on New Year's Eve.

Where to get tickets:

Oulu and Tampere: www.lippupalvelu.fi and www.tiketti.fi (limit 4 per customer)

Helsinki: www.tiketti.fi (limitation 2 per customer)

Helsinki 3 day pass is available through www.tiketti.fi. Price 100€. (limit 2 per customer)

Age Limits: 18 and over for all shows except for Pakkahuone the age limit is 15 and over.

Links:
Helldone Festival www.myspace.com/helldone
Tavastia www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Teatria www.teatria.com
Pakkahuone www.tullikamari.net
KYPCK www.kypck-doom.com
45 Degree Woman www.myspace.com/45dw
Stam1na www.stam1na.com
Diablo www.myspace.com/diablometal
Godsplague www.myspace.com/thegodsplague
The 69 Eyes www.69eyes.com
Negative www.negative.fi
Sara www.saranhuone.com

Transportation Options:
www.vr.fi (Finnish national railway company)
www.blue1.fi (airline)
www.finnair.fi (airline)
www.fc.fi (airline)
www.expressbus.com (busline)

Hotel Options:
www.restel.fi
www.sokoshotels.fi
www.scandichotels.com
www.radissonsas.com

HIM Channel on Youtube!

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:13:00 +0000

Kiss of Dawn

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Contact

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Promotion Ideas

noreply@blogger.com (HIM Missouri Street Team) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:21:00 +0000

Street Teams are all about promoting the bands and spreading the word:

Word of Mouth
The easiest way to inform people is simply to talk. Word of mouth is one of the biggest and most reliable forms of advertising today. So if your’re standing in line, bored at school/work, whatever, ask someone if they’ve heard of a band called HIM and if they haven’t, tell them a little about it. If you have an iPod or MP3 player with you, let them hear a track. Get them interested and they’ll go check it out.
Merchandise-
Wear the merchandise. HIM shirts, heartagrams, hoodies, jewelry, tattoos, etc... Wearing the band logo will get people’s attention and if they ask tell them what it is. And yes, you will get “Isn’t that Bam’s logo?” or “Is that a pentagram?” “Are you Satanic?” While we fans might think this is annoying, try to answer calmly and let them know what the heartagram really is and what it stands for.
Radio-
We need HIM being played on the radio! Call your local station and bug them. Email them. Go to their website and request HIM once an hour. Whatever it takes, just get them on the air.

Internet-
Next to word of mouth, the Internet is a massive advertising tool. Send people to HIM’s website and their Myspace page. Mention them in IM conversations, use HIM graphics for your buddy icons, post banners, reviewes, etc...
Myspace-
HIM has an official Myspace page. Help them raise their number of friends by posting bulletins with links to it. Drop in once a day and leave them some love in the comments. Add other HIM friends to your own Myspace page. Friend the HIM Missouri Team Myspace page to help promote as well.

Fliers and Posters-
HIM Mo. Street Team will do our best to provide you with fliers and other handouts to help promote the band. Take these to local record stores and ask if you can put them in the windows or leave them on the counters. Ask the same at your local Hot Topic or other clothing store. Go to concerts in your area and hand them out. Plaster them on the telephone poles (where it’s legal) in your neighborhood. Get the Heartagram out there!
And last but not leat: keep checking back here for more ideas and HIM Missouri Street Team events!
*Thank you Jenne and Kelly-Dallas HIM and Carrie-California team

HIM Missouri Street Team

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Helldone Festival 2009 - HIM's MySpace Blog |

Ville Interview For Download - Euro-Rock Radio/Promo's MySpace Blog |

Ville Valo Will Join Euro-Rock Radio Sept.8!

HIM at Soundwave Festival!

Ville Valo Talks About Love, Relationships, Literature, Drinking and Drugs at SPIN Earth.

Official News on HIM's New Album!

New Album News Coming June 9th!

We're now on Twitter!

Big Cheese and Kerrang!

Euro-Rock Radio's Interview With Ville Valo!

Heartagram Day 2009!

Metal Hammer » Blog Archive » Hot 100: HIM

Ville Valo's Message To The Street Teams

News From The Heartagram

Ville Valo On Radio Bam!

Ville on Radio Bam and TSN Updates!

Finnish Rockers Collaborate For Rock and Roll High School

HIM's Ville Valo To Voice Madagascar 2 Character

HIM Channel on Youtube!

Kiss of Dawn

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