POP COUNTER//CULTURE: Interview with Ville Valo
There's an interview with Ville at Pop CounterCulture that was posted on Apr. 27.
Hailing all the way from Helsinki, Finland, the boys of HIM launched this year with their seventh studio album, Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice Chapters 1-13. This quintet, consisting of Ville Valo on vocals, Mikko “Linde” Lindstrom on guitar, Mikko “Mige” Paananen on bass, Mika “Gas” Karppinen on drums, and Janne “Burton” Puurtinen on the keyboard, is the Tim Burton of rock. Playing a particular brand of music, dubbed as “love metal”, the uniquely morbid yet romantic lyrics mixed with head bang-worthy instrumentals have inspired quite the following both at home in Europe and overseas in North America.
During a recent tour date in Vancouver, Canada, HIM frontman Ville Valo stopped by to talk to with Pop CounterCulture about their new album, the longevity of the band, love, truth and more.
On their new born baby album:
“[Screamworks] still feels like a new born baby. With Venus Doom we had a lot of Jane’s Addiction-type influences. After doing an album like that and touring the album for a year and a half, we played a song called “Sleepwalking Past Hope” every gig that lasted for fifteen minutes. After that we said no more long songs. And that was the starting point to working on Screamworks – clocking under four minutes, keeping everything tight, but still having a lot of musical information in every song. We seem to do one heavy, doomy, gloomy album and then something a tad lighter.”
More can be found here: The Disease of Love
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