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Why HIM’s Love Metal is the greatest goth album of the 21st century
By Dave Everley last updated
If Anne Rice had made a goth-metal album, it would have sounded like HIM’s Love Metal

How HIM’s Razorblade Romance set Ville Valo on the path to goth-metal immortality
By Natasha Scharf last updated
Looking back on the first great goth-metal album of the 21st century

HIM’s Screamworks: how the brooding kings of goth-metal found happiness
By Dayal Paterson published
A newly clean and sober Ville Valo let a little light into the darkness with HIM’s seventh album, Screamworks

Love, death and HIM: a classic interview with Ville Valo
By Dave Everley last updated
In 2013, as HIM prepared to release their final album Tears On Tape, we sat down with Ville Valo to look back on his epic career

Watch HIM’s Ville Valo killing it on slap-bass in a funk metal band in 1992
By Metal Hammer published
Everyone has to start somewhere. For 15-year-old future HIM frontman and goth icon Ville Valo, it was in a teenage funk metal band

HIM'S Dark Light: how America fell in love with the new kings of goth
By Henry Yates published
Rabid dogs, lost souls and the ghost of Jimi Hendrix – how HIM made the album that turned them into transatlantic superstars

How Ville Valo went to hell and back on HIM’s Venus Doom
By Malcolm Dome published
Addiction, rehab, suicide – HIM made their darkest, heaviest album in 2007’s Venus Doom
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