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  1. Heartagram Sweden's interview with Linde & Mige
    Tuesday, July 27, 2010
  2. Another press video for Õllesummer
    Tuesday, July 20, 2010
  3. Official Daniel Lioneye Street Team Forum is open
    Saturday, July 17, 2010
  4. GOTV hosted by HIM interview
    Saturday, July 17, 2010
  5. HIM Norway video interview:
    Saturday, July 17, 2010
  6. Delfi TV Interview:
    Saturday, July 17, 2010
  7. Congratulations to Daniel Lioneye
    Thursday, July 15, 2010
  8. Screamworks Review
    Thursday, July 15, 2010
  9. Video- Short interview about the festival in Estonia
    Sunday, July 11, 2010
  10. His Infernal Magazine: Issue 24
    Sunday, July 11, 2010

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Heartagram Sweden's interview with Linde & Mige

During the Pier Pressure Festival (20, June, 2010), the official Swedish St. Team had an opportunity to interview Linde and Mige. 
Included are some questions submitted by fans. Thanks goes to Julia Ehrling and David Funseth for the interview that follows:
 
Do you have any favorite song to play live? 
Linde: Well, I enjoy playing “Like saint valentine”
 
Mige: I’ve kinda grown fond of Disarm me. I do awesome backing vocals there as well so.
 
Ville writes for HIM and you, Linde have Daniel Lioneye but we are wondering if you, Mige, write any music?
Mige: Yeah I started writing actually, it's kinda like Mortiis.I can't really describe it but when we were recording Screamworks in America we were listening to Daniel Lioneye while having a barbecue and it became an inspiration almost on a religious level. So we try to recapture some of those emotions too.
 
Linde: And he also writes some lyrics for Daniel Lioneye.
 
Mige: Oh yeah, I’d rather call it poetry.
 
Are you going to do a tour with Daniel Lioneye?
Linde: Yeah. I don’t know when yet and I don’t want to talk too much about it but there’s going to be a tour.
 
Do you have any special rituals that you go through before a gig?
Linde: Yeah, I pee in a small cup.
 
Mige: Yeah it’s disgusting you know.
 
Linde: It’s for real, I have too pee right before we go on stage.
 
And what about you Mige?
Mige: Hehe, it’s kind of contagious you know. But I really despise that habit. I think its fucking grouse you know, He relieves himself and leaves the cups hanging around, but then sometimes I even borrow his cup. 
 
So you still get nervous before a gig ?
Mige: I guess so. There is no other way of explaining that kind of retardary.
 
What’s your plan for the fall?
Mige: Uhm, I think we are going to take it pretty easy, you know. We haven’t made any plans but plans will be made for us.
 
What about HellDone?
Mige: Well, it’s kind of predictable to do it so maybe this year we’ll do the unpredictable. But you never know. It’s a nice tradition.
 
Do you have a special tour memory?
Linde: No, nothing comes to mind.
 
Mige: Well it was really an inspiration when you had that imaginary friend a long time ago.
 
Linde: Oh yeah I can’t remember anything of that.
 
Mige: It’s actually the topic of one Daniel Lioneye song. You know, he was having a discussion with his imaginary friend who was a German. He was denying something; he kept saying “Ich Nicht” over and over again. It was scary.
 
Do you know German?
Linde: No, It really was scary.
 
Mige: He really didn’t want to be involved in whatever that imaginary friend was taking about.
 
What is your favorite HIM song ?
Linde: Hmm, I’m going to say “Borellus”.
 
Mige: I was really blown away by “Gone with the Sin” when I heard it the first time.
 
What do think all Swedish people know how to say in Finnish?
Mige: I’ve always been a fan of the word “kuttu”.
 
What does it mean?
Mige: It’s the area between you genitals and your rectal area. You know that funny like scrumpy area people never mention. 
 
Linde, how long are you planning on getting your dreadlocks?
Linde: I don’t know, I think I’m going to save them until my grave or something. You know it’s kind of a drag to live with them but I still can’t imagine cutting them off.
 
Has Ville been annoying since he quit smoking?
Mige: No more than usual I think.
 
Linde: Well, maybe in Australia.
 
It’s going good?
Mige: Yeah actually nobody in the band smokes anymore. 
 
Is it different to tour in America then Europe?
Linde: It is yeah, mainly because of the distances.
 
Are you going to dress up and do a Halloween gig?
Mige: I think I’ll try to have my own personal Halloween in the countryside. I have some garden tools as well, I don’t need a chain-saw to make a good Halloween. We did a Halloween gig a couple of years ago. It was pretty epic.
 
What do you think of Sweden? Did you fly in today?
Linde: Yes so we haven’t had time to check out Gothenburg, but I like Sweden though.
 
Mige: I’ve driven down the E4 a few times. That’s pretty epic. You want to kill yourself at Jonkoping. It’s the middle of the E4 and that’s the place where you get really suicidal. 
 
Now we have a couple of fast “This or that” questions.
Karhu och Koff?
 
Linde: Koff
 
Mige: I’ll say Karhu because the logo resembles our first keyboard player Antto Melasniemi when he gets mad. You could almost drink him.
 
Festival or Club gig?
Mige, Linde: Club gig.
 
Stockholm or Gothenburg?
Mige, Linde: Stockholm
 
Sweden or Norway?
Linde: I’ve only been to Norway ones so i have to go with Sweden.
 
Mige: Since Mortiis is from Norway I can’t say Sweden.
 
Live or Studio?
Linde: Studio.
 
Mige. I’m going to say both.
 
Sean or Pasi?
Mige: Oh, it’s a sexual question? 
 
It’s up to you
Linde: I’ll say Pasi.
 
Mige: Uhm it really depends on that sexual- thing. If I could scientifically study him it would be Sean. If it’s sexual I’ll say Pasi.


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Another press video for Õllesummer

Some of this is in Finnish. Sorry guys, I don't have a translation for you. =/

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Official Daniel Lioneye Street Team Forum is open

Attention all US Daniel Lioneye fans:

There is an Official Daniel Lioneye Street Team forum created by Madge at the following link.
 

Keep in mind that Madge has registration to the team on a first come, first serve basis,
so please be sure to sign up ASAP. This forum is for the US only.

* Please note that membership to everyone is not guaranteed & eventually membership signup will be cut off, at the owner's discretion. 
 
Madge's only request is that NO ONE uses a band members (or member of label or management) as their screen name when signing up.

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GOTV hosted by HIM interview

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HIM Norway video interview:

Marius from HIM Norway had allowed fans to submit questions to use in an interview with HIM.
He was originally promised a 20 min interview with the band, but then was told that it was so little time, 
so they had to make it a press-briefing. 
The festival crew just gathered all the people with press accreditation to interview HIM in one room thus, 
leaving Marius to choose only 3 questions to ask. Those questions are in the following video:


*Video courtesy of HIM Norway.

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Delfi TV Interview:

Here is a part of the interview, but it's in Finnish:


Here's a quick translation of the interview, courtesy of Sineresi from Live Journal. Please note- she says they cut out all the questions and part of the answers, so it's very choppy.

Ville: You have a lot of unexpected responsibilities, like paying your taxes. [laughs] 
 
Mige: And physical problems. 
 
Ville: Yes, we’re starting to get old.
 
Yes, but on the other hand, you can move to the country and still continue to make music. Or become a fisherman and live in the city.
 
You can’t say that Estonia would be the only place we have been avoiding. The world is such a big place that we don’t have the time to go everywhere every year. But we’re here now.
 
No, it’s always white Marlboros. Never cigars, those are bad for your health. [laughs] No, I don’t think I’ll be smoking anything tonight. We’re supposed to play and scream for an hour and a half, and you can’t do that with your lungs full of carcinogens.
 
I’m afraid of not being able to sleep. I suffer from insomnia and it’s really irritating. Meaning I can’t sleep and that creates situations where I have hardly slept for several days and I can’t think straight. It’s oppressive. It’s scary.
 
Nowadays it’s so much easier and less expensive getting tattoos removed with laser. So I have heard that in America kids get tattoos because they can always get them removed, which is a really weird new thing because before tattoos were for guys who had been to prison or sailors or real blue-collar workers. My father has some tattoos and stuff. It used to also symbolize that you can’t get rid off them. And for example Russian prison tattoos--all those symbols and everything--they’re really interesting. It’s weird that people tattoo a butterfly on their arm and go get it removed a week later.

This is another part of the interview, to my knowledge:

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Congratulations to Daniel Lioneye

Congratulations to Daniel Lioneye for hitting the #36 on this week's CMJ Network Loud Rock Charts !!!  

And how awesome is it that Total Guitar gave Vol: II 3 out of 5 stars!!!

It's great to see Vol. II getting the recognition it deserves. Keep supporting Daniel Lioneye. 
Let's keep helping Linde & co. out. The guys deserve all the successes they're receiving.

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Screamworks Review

HIMLANDIA'S very own Julie wrote her first ever article/album review!!!


"The Finnish rock band known as HIM has returned with its seventh studio album, "Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice". The five musicians from Helsinki, Finland have started off the new decade with another sonic surprise of a rock album. This album is filled with heavy, goth-tinged, guitar-driven rock tunes that beckon the music-world to relish, savor and urge them to attribute this work to their precious rock and roll compilations. As an observer and listener of HIM's previous albums, the band's February 9, 2010 release is by far the most aggressive in terms of its lyrical positivity and musical dynamics. Unlike the past more melancholic albums; it portrays love in a more optimistic light, which literally "screams" out for hope, redemption, and (as always) love. As singer Ville Valo has previously stated in an interview; it's about "embracing the light at the end of the tunnel" and he describes the quality of the songs as, "heavy, but a lighter shade of black." (video- "Ville Valo Talks About Screamworks", HIM's Youtube channel ).

Eastern North Carolina may not be particularly familiar with the "love metal" band, but rest assured, there are plenty of "metal-head" youths who've either heard their name or have seen their symbol (the Heartagram) in various locations. For a quick bit of background, the young group of musicians began performing in 1991, but didn't receive the bulk of its American recognition until the early 2000's. Both the Heartagram symbol and the term "Love Metal" was adorned to the band's musical style by singer Valo on his 20th birthday in 1996. In 2005, HIM became the first Finnish band to receive gold status in the U.S. with the album Dark Light.
 
Now, in the turn of a new decade, the Finns have arrived with their most aggressive, melodious collection of songs to date. The first track of their new album Screamworks is In Venere Veritas, it lures the audience with an in-your-face message brought by Valo as he sings the opening lyrics, "Let's fall apart together now". This then blasts us into a horizon brimming of flange guitars, pulsing drums, and enchanting keyboard hooks; setting up the mood with a powerhouse rock anathematic approach. For those unfamiliar with the Latin language, the title (In Venere Veritas) translates into English as, "In love there is truth". 


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Video- Short interview about the festival in Estonia

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His Infernal Magazine: Issue 24

Summer's in full swing & the amazing SweetHearts over at The Crimson Gate bring you the latest issue of His Infernal Magazine!!!
This month's issue shares the latest exclusive interview with Stefan Lindfors, done in May 2010, as well as reviews, song meanings & so much more.

Enjoy this one-of-a-kind online magazine, here: English Version

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