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“The heart of darkness for me is a heart of honesty, it’s the heart of vulnerability”: how Ville Valo pulled back from the abyss and bared his soul on HIM’s Screamworks
In 2010, Hammer visited HIM frontman Ville Valo at home in Helsinki to talk about the goth-metal band’s new album, Screamworks: Love in Theory And Practice
"I've already started humming and strumming": Ville Valo is planning to work on new music this year
Ville Valo explains what he misses most about HIM, but says he's still planning on working on a sequel to Neon Noir in 2024
10 heavy metal bands who need to reunite in 2024
We’re not ready to bid farewell to Rage Against The Machine, Slayer and Black Sabbath just yet…
Don't bank on Ville Valo reuniting HIM any time soon: "We haven’t really been in touch"
HIM leader Ville Valo is enjoying his solo career right now, and it looks set to stay that way
The 11 greatest final shows in heavy metal history
From Black Sabbath to Metallica’s Cliff Burton, these excellent gigs also proved to be bittersweet goodbyes
Bam Margera, toilet chats and Dave Grohl's tongue: how Love Metal finally took HIM worldwide, and proved Ville Valo was a rock star like no other
"Things got kinda wild and weird," says Ville Valo today when he looks back at Love Metal, 20 years on. He wasn't kidding
"I felt this hairy tongue on my face": Ville Valo recalls meeting Dave Grohl for the first time and the album that made HIM goth metal stars
2003's Love Metal helped propel HIM to international fame and Ville Valo had some interesting run-ins with his fellow rock stars
10 metal bands who thankfully retired before they turned rubbish
While some bands may choose to push on years past their sell-by date, these metal icons called it quits at just the right time
