Is there a thread extolling the absolute awesomeness that is H.I.M.

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The 16 year old goth girl in me is in Finnish love metal heaven. Surely the like-minded have found His Infernal Majesty, and can share with me lurid gushes re: said majesty.

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

I've always wondered about these characters. I suspect if I was ten years younger they would have held a place in my heart the same way that the Mission did.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

Well, the lyrics are mall-gothy ridiculous, but that just makes them more adorable.

The songs though--GREAT pop songs. Great drummer.

They're like Kelly Clarkson does Sisters of Mercy in front of a dusty Hot Topic. What's not to love?

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:34 (nineteen years ago)

Picks to click: "Wings of a Butterfly" (Angus Young WISHES he wrote the main riff).

"The Sacrement" Tim Burton piano-flourished metalpop.

"Dark Light", wherein they discover a major chord progression, a Phil Spector-y A to F# minor sort of thing and your Bic lighter quivers in anticipation.

The sheer inevitability of the "Wicked Game" cover reeks of greatness foretold. (See? I'm talking like a H.I.M. lyric.)

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

one of my co workers at the record store i used to work at is, like, a humongous psycho number one fan type guy. hand sold so many copies of "love metal" or whatever the pink album is that their label sent our store this light up heartogram clock. heard everything they've ever done. went from liking to hating to liking once again, if only for the total ridiculousness of it all.

and, well. ville is pretty cute.

anyone hear heard 69 eyes?

― Emily Bjurnhjam (Emily Bjurnhjam), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

is this the band that bam margera gets a boner from?

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.heartagram.com/

This song playing now is totally a-ha gone metal! Which is brilliant.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

I just love the fact that it's called a heartagram too.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

the very ones. the band that launched a thousand heartagram tattoos on the inner wrists of america. or something.

― Emily Bjurnhjam (Emily Bjurnhjam), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

(Song: "Killing Loneliness")

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

Between this and Lordi I gotta give the Finns major credit these days.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

And actually yes, "Wings of a Butterfly" has a total wannabe Mission feel to the riff as well! I was right!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

I like this bit from their wikipedia entry:

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In the official HIM biography, Synnin Viemää, Ville Valo admitted to making things up and joking about the name during interviews, leading to conflicting accounts of the origin of the name and the confusion that exists today. During an interview, Valo has said:

"In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke. And it was our protest to Haile Selassie's rastafarian religion, he used to be called His Imperial Majesty. But nowadays because of Linde's hair, we actually might be supporting him."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

lovemetal is one of the worst albums i've ever heard in my life.

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:10 (nineteen years ago)

HIM in nu-ilx MCR shockah

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:19 (nineteen years ago)

Oh poo--it's awesome.

And "a-ha metal" Exactly!

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

H.I.M. is way more consitant and ridiulous than MCR, the later quality trumping all.

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

And they're incredibly PRECISE. "Wings of a Butterfy" is like KILLER RIFF followed by 8-BAR-VERSE followed promptly by GOD's-OWN-CHORUS.

"Behind the Crimson Door" is equally precise and delightful. It seems we, the weary and woe-filled are cowering "behind the crimson door" and what door it is fuck knows but what *matters* is it's CRIMSOM.
Brilliant.

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

(my enthusiasm destroys all typing skills and syntax.)

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

but what does Ramzi Awn think

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

What a crappy band.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

Now the post-rock band of the same name now we're talking. They had the name first too.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

Heaven ablaze in our eyes
We're standing still in time
The blood on our hands is the wine
We offer as sacrifice
[Chorus]
Come on, and show them your love
Rip out the wings of a butterfly
For your soul, my love
Rip out the wings of a butterfly
For your soul

This endless mercy mile
We're crawling side by side
With hell freezing over in our eyes
Gods kneel before our crime

Is this like a goth version of The Darkness?

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/Music/Large/72435359782.jpg

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

they do a mean "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

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