Hot 100: HIM
We tell you all the essential details of what your favourite bands are up to in 2009 in the Hot 100. Today’s edition lets you know what you can expect from the return of HIM.
“We’re in the songwriting phase, but I always am so it never stops,” explains HIM frontman Ville Valo. “The idea is to write number one hits songs… 13 of them,” he adds with a wry smile. “We’ll figure out who’ll produce it early next year and head into the studio in March or April. Hopefully we’ll be done by the festival season and be able to play new songs there. If the album doesn’t come out in autumn or winter 2009, it’ll be early 2010.”
So what can we expect from the new HIM album?
“I haven’t talked to the band for long yet, but I want to keep the songs all under five minutes and make them really punky and direct. When I say punky I don’t mean sounding like punk, I mean punk in feel. Not so much ear candy. I love over-produced albums but we’ve never tried a more stripped-down, simple approach in a Search And Destroy Iggy Pop and the Stooges type vibe. It’ll still be wanky and melancholy and have all those HIM elements, but just not so much ear candy. Venus Doom was quite a proggy album for us so I’m thinking of doing the opposite with this one.”
And as he explains, being sober has brought out his inner bastard, which we will hear on the new material: “I’m more pissed off and more aggressive. There’s no buffer between me and the real world so I’m the proper cunt I was meant to be.”
Loading ...
No mather what they bring the music is always fantastic .Can not wait until the album comes out. It will be worth the wait, I am sure that
Its the best band for me .
Their music is my life
Thanks HIM X X X
OMG!!
i can’t believe it…a new album from HIM is comming!! xD
i’m very happy ’bout than!!
thks HIM, you guys are awesome!!!
love niQii*
HIM is the best band in the entire world! and i hope they never stop making music! i cant wait to hear their new album
). ville is a genius 
Can we get some HIM crossover love thrash please? im standing on the speaker stack, ready to thrash like a romantic maniac!
greetings…ohh what a good news…exelent what else to say….HIM 4ever…god or devil help u…:D
Heartagrams rule-best songwriter around
finally, ville is feeling some boiling anger; when someone begins using the words malancholly and cunt again you know they’re determined and are going to ear fuck us all. Hopefully raping more young unsuspecting minds with fruitful immorality will bring back the old HIM.
it seems it’s gonna be long time waiting till the new stuff comes out, but i’m sure it’ll be worth it, you know the music is always fantastic…
we just have to be patient;)
I so look forward
HIM 4ever!
Sound cool to me. Ville is amazing songwriter.
I really can’t wait for the new album….
))) And can’t wait for the surprise they’re preparing for us! 
Great News!!!!
Ville Vallo is the best…the very best!!!
AWESOME!!
Better be touring to aus
I <3 Ville Valo & HIM
Can’t wait
Hope he comes back to the $tates again
Sooo pissed I missed Venus Doom in LA but caught HIM in Vegas
i fucking love HIM
i hope they come back to Australia!!
him for ever , only – i hope , to see him on tour 2009 in germany – please come back to hamburg and play the best music , i missed ville and his band , your music is amazing and beautyful ,
ciao , i hope to see you next year in germany
please come
barbara
This is a good news!I love HIM. This is a best band in the world for me. And I wait the new album anxiously.
what can i say?wow:O
is a fucking good news…
btw come back to romania….
ive been out the ‘HIM loop’ for a whie.
and to come back to this.
i did a hand dance at my desk.
great, come back to scotland and blow the roof of the barrowlands again!
I can’t wait for the new album
Ville is awesome
new album = world tour! (i hopeee….)
Now when i know that, what I’m going to do all this time?!?? I can’t waaaiiiit!
I ‘m stoked to hear their new material! I cant wait….I bet it’s even better than VD! It always seems to evolve into something more greater than the past. That’s what we all thrive for anyway.
Perfection, persistence, and anticipation on what we have done in the past, to become what we are today! Imho, I think it will be more along the lines of breaking free from whatever it is that creates and destroys, as far as addictions. People can be addicted to anything, not just drugs. Everyone has an addiction to something. It takes a lot to figure that out, and change the way you live your life, your whole lifestyle. -=Osia=-
HIM are awesome! I can’t wait for the new cd!
And, a U.S. tour. I might be old, I’m 38, female, but not too old to ROCK! Rock on guys!
[...] Source:www.metalhammer.co.uk/features/hot-100-him/ [...]
weeeee!!!
can’t wait!!!
pissed of valo XDDDDD
LMAO
this is gonna be so awsome^^
Seems like a long wait, but i am sure it is worth it. Looks like i will have to be saving up for some new HIM Merch and a few tour tickets. HIM are a fantastic band and i hope they continue to create great music
They`re fuckin` awesome ……….
waitin with patience
OMG, I’m so happy
They are to me, truly the best band in the whole entire world. In 666 ways I love them <3
OMFG!!! HIM A NEW ALBUM??
SOOOO HAPPY-BEST BAND EVER.:)
CANT WAIT GUYS!
I love HIM
I love HIM
W8ing for you in Greece.. HIM till death…!!
Give that song allready
I’m going crazy
kisses
I wanna hear that song heartkiller
I hear 30second and lovin it
HIM RULES FOREVER
I finaly hear song Heartkiller and is fantastic.
It be great to hear new cd
HIM is awesome and the best
Great stuff close to this good topic ! Someone could find writing services to buy custom essay papers, also students get custom essays.