Ville Valo: This Is Our Most Sexual Album
You’ve already read about our track-by-track guide to the new HIM album, now we speak to Ville Valo about what he’s calling HIM’s most sexual album!
Ville Valo has spoken to Metal Hammer about the band’s new album ‘Screamworks: Love In Theory and Practice’ and he describes it as the band’s most sexual work to date!
Hammer: It feels like a very horny album.
Ville Valo: “Lyrically, it’s the most sexual one, the most horny one, we’ve ever made. The horny and the horned. Like the Impaled Nazarene song. It’s got that and a sense of immediacy: ‘I want it now, now, now’. It’s not about being poetic or forlorn about something that is about to happen, it’s actually about something that is happening at this very moment in time.”
“I like the immediacy of it. There’s a lot of information put in short songs and they don’t let go. That was the whole vibe for me. You should have seen me working the vocals out in the middle of the night, amongst my taxidermy owls in the tower screaming my guts out, unable to stop until 9am and then sleeping on a couch for two hours before starting again. So the whole process of the album is very close to that mental boner that just didn’t go away.”
Check out our track-by-track guide to the new HIM album here!





sounds like they’re trying to be the next rammstein…either way they are pure shit
damn they are trying to be what they are and if you cant take that why would you even bother commenting??
Haters cant get enough of HIM. they need to complain to Metal Hammer who obviously want these interviews. charan is a douche.
anyway, Valo and all the guys are geniuses. cant wait to hear the new album. “sexual”, haha.
That’s right – if you don’t like a band why would you bother reading news at all?!
HIM are doing what they want, what they like and the way they like it. Never tried to please anyone, just playing the music they want. Few of the newbands do that nowadays. Whoever doesn’t like it not tolisten to it, it’s so simple!
Respect to Meatl Hammer for posting news on HIM at all!
Kudos to Metal Hammer…your recent coverage of ‘Screamworks: Love In Theory and Practice’ has been amazing. Thanks for your continued support for HIM.
Agree with everyone but Charan.
Lol is it me or are loads of bands trying to be more sexual since Steel Panther crashed on the scene?
Hate HIM n’ still want to post a comment here?? MFCKIN’ FAGGOTS……
hahaha, what a god awful band. They couldn’t have chosen a funnier name for their new album though. Sexual? sexual? ooh, that’ll get all the 13 year old girls going.
Each to our own! HIM are a great band, Ville is a great frontman but the main focus is taken off the band and purely on Ville, meaning tonnes of girls love him. Lyrically and musically they are very good, more focus should go to the band though
for SIC (seems like you forgot to type the last letter to your name)
dont give up on listening to your deadly heavy metal spending time posting bullshit or you may turn gay after thinking about HIM so much
hahahah frenzied you are so funny… seriously, you discovered rock ´n roll in guitar hero isn´t it? you have no idea of what metal is…
HIM rules! and AC/DC too!!
Euronymous, if it was meant for me its not about metal or any musical genre at all, i just don’t know why people would waste so much time dissing someone they utterly hate unless its their life attitude, imo it’s the matter of mental state rather
HIM is the best band out there with more copy bands than any other band touring now,All you HIM haters,go listen to the brothers Jonas!Him fuckin rules,hands down.
me neither dude… im just a hater of the haters… sorry, i think i didn´t get your message right and took it as an offense
All you haters can go to hell. Yep, i said it. HIM is a great band. They have songs that actually mean something. Rock is not about getting loaded and banging chicks. HIM is in a league all their own. I cant wait for the new album to come out. Keep going strong you guys.
Haters have every right to post here as lovers do.
A horny album from HIM…yeah, like that’s new, haha.
I’m interested even more now. METAL HAMMER, YOU ARE SUCH TEASES!
HIM…you guys are even worse teases. ^^
HIM…blah blah not metal… blah blah they suck blah blah no you suck for hating them blah fucking blah. YAAAAWWWNNNNNNNN.
oh i love it! I can’t wait to hear it….and no HIM doesn’t suck….your haters are just mad your not as talented as they are!
The feeling i get from the way people are writing these comments is that there all between the ages of about 12 and 18 and haven’t yet realised that HIM indeed do well and truly and without any doubt what so ever SUCK THE SCHLONG!!!
Wow! How immature are these trolls?
HIM don’t suck, they fucking rock as a matter a fact! You haters are just jealous because they’re more talented than you are.
It boggles my mind why people who dislike someone so much that they take the time to go into their space and make such awful remarks. Are you people over 21, you sure don’t sound like it. It’s a free country you can say what you want but that doesn’t mean it’s not Stupid! Are you Jealous? or Ugly?
Ok, so let’s wait for the album. Is good to have news about it in advance. Thanks MH.
Ville Valo is God !!!
…and here I thought all of their albums had a sexual aspect to them.
Yes as much as I love seeing Ville Valo I would like to see the rest of the band and what they have to say as well.
Ville Valo’s cool for takin the time to talk about it and I hope to see more!
Lilly L.
I simply cannot wait for this album to come out! And anyway, why would you waste your time writing a comment and insulting the band, when you could spend your time doing something more productive….?
Most Homosexual Album.
Sweet can’t wait, always look forward to HIM, been a favourite of mine for roughly four years now looking forward to their new material.
@Bauld
I’m 22 and HIM are my favourite band.
I also like:
Sacred Mother Tongue
Rolo Tomassi
Gama Bomb
Exit Ten
Evile
Suicide Silence
Sikth
What’s your point?
Michael, you’re right, more attention should be paied to the band but reall,y don’t think it’s their fault. The media created Ville. Before 2000 it was just the band HIM. After they broke out with “Join Me” the media, especiall in Germany, suddenly screated “Ville Valo and HIM” as if are two seperate things. I also don’t like it but unfortunately that’s how things work nowadays. If you look at other bands, though with not so iconic frontmen, thigs are pretty much the same – attention falls on one person. It’s inevitable!
Anyway, the guys are terrific musicians, especially the guitar-player Linde, so who knows, may be he’ll be the next super star from HIM..
Peace!
HIM are the masters of love metal!!!
Ville is a true poet and so wise!
by the way
hey charan,SIC and Bayne tell me your favorite music…. to see what you got…
baloo, not media created Valo, he created his image himself and thats absolutely normal that the frontman gets the most attention, especially so charismatic as Ville is, besides the rest of the guys never guestioned his popularity among fans or media representatives and as far as i remember in a number of interviews they stated that they are really glad that Ville takes up major responsibility for promoting the band which is not easy at all and thus making it possible for the guys to have some private time with their families. Its no doubt that everyone of them is an amazing musician but everyone has their niche in the band the way it should be
Most Anticipated Album.
yes love is gay. (sarcasm) WTF.
haters are seriously Wee-todded.
him rocks.
At Hairyman
Fair enough maybe a slightly unfair generalisation on the age thing but when i see a previous comment also calling them the ”masters of love metal” it makes me feel sick to my stomach……love metal……FUCK OFF!!!!. METAL IS BALLS TO THE WALL AND ONE FOR THE HORSE!!!!!
Oh, frenzied, please, don’t misunderstand me… Under “media created Ville Valo” I mean sth quite different.. O lord, how say it… They created one image.. mmm.. kinda the way media funktions nowadays, brainwashing. To the people who are not into HIM it seems like Ville’s band, solo project or whatever, I’ve heard a lot of shit on the matter. You see how someone has aksed the whole band for an interview and the interviewer still communicates only with Ville and the bass-player Mige.
Don’t misunderstand me, really. I live with the music of HIM already 10 years, I know how the guys feel about Ville’s position and stuff. But media makes it look totally diverted.
some like him, some dont, people that love him should be postin things on here, people that dont shud go fall of a bridge
baloo, i see your point, the media can fuck up in all possible situations but thats not only due to them that Ville is taken for HIM in general. The man has a wicked charisma so no wonder that the media go for him and Mige is a great and talkative comedian so together they are twice as awesome. Suppose taking an hourlong interview from Linde or Burton for example, the guys would be really freaked out. Let Linde simply play his guitar and he’ll be the happiest, or Burton, or Gas. But it really pisses me off that many people just see Ville’s looks as the main thing and the music as an appendage (and it seems the first motive for f*cking haters).
sorry if i didn’t make myself clear, anyway HIM rock so peace love and vegetables man
I love the way Ville happens to put thoughts into words….”the mental boner that doesnt go away” lol pure greatness. I will forever be a fan of HIM and their work. Im sure this is going to be one of their best albums yet….i hope its alot better than Venus Doom….that was kind of a stinker compared to the other albums they’ve come out with.
Also too Bauld…just wanted to say Accept kinda sucks since Balls to the Wall was their ONLY hit….If you want real Heavy Metal go listen to some Metallica.
Like many other crazy happy HIM Fans i really look forward for HIM returning to the UK with new material :0) I’m soon 19 and have loved this band since i was 13. . . I’m sure the people who say they are shit secretly love them ;P ((And thank god this page isn’t full of just ‘Vlille is so sexy’
))…. I would love to see the whole band do interviews when the album comes out
I don’t understand why so many people are talking sh*t about HIM if this is news directed towards HIM fans.
If you don’t like the music, why bother with commenting? It’d save you loads of time, and save others anger and any other type of emotion you’d be eliciting out of them by making fun of something that is important to someone.
Just knock it off. It’s childish.
On the other hand, I’m VERY excited for this new album, and absolutely can’t wait for it to come out. I can only imagine the things that are going to happen once it gets released.
Dear FAH Q! Just wondering, Why theese remarks towards Him? Has HE managed to awake some unwanted sexual fellings below your belt, that you desperate trying to deny ?…
I dont blame these people for hating Ville really. When your a sexually frustrated, box room masterbater, with the interlect of an overdone cabbage, wanking off to Kerry King every night then see some feminine looking guy in a multi-platinum selling rock band with million’s of young ladies lusting after him, it’s fairly understandable. Just talk to a few girl’s guy’s, most of them dont bite.
This band plays music for chubby 13 year old Twilight fans. Chicks with zits but no tits! True vampire/goth metal belongs to Type O!
LOMAN are you really stupid? i am far beyond 13-year limit and i started listening to the band at a conscious age so dont talk bullshit please
Ville !!!!!!!! Is the best!!!!!!!
Why are people coming on here if you’d hate HIM?
It’s just a waste of time, people has different opinions and should respect that. It just shows how disrespectful some people are. You don’t like them, then don’t. Just stop commenting on here, it’s not going anywhere!!
i’m 28, i teach in a high school, i follow HIM since their first album not for ville,but for the lyrics that i discovered before the music:some of those “belong” to the romantic period according to me.
before criticizing we must have the entire work-life of an artist on our hands, do not be either superficial like a lot of HIM fans (“valo’s beautiful!”) or a priori destroyer like misinformed HIM haters (“theirs isn’t real metal music”).
i love it<3<3<3<3 ….. yes he is beautiful, hes very sexy, should be sexy music, i like that!!!! kisses V…….ALWAYS AND FOREVER
>HIM sucks
>HIM is at the top of the “Best Metal Hammer Covers” poll by a landslide
wat
fromSicily, I absolutely agree with you. I started listening to HIM music after I had “discovered” older staff ( Greatest Lovesongs, Borellus….) or Uneasy Listening Vol. 1. and had found out that HIM music is not only about “Join me in dead.” They have been doing great “job” and often it has nothing to do with METAL. A load of people need to have music pigeon-holed, but I do not think this is HIM´s aim. They just want to “do” music and they do it fabulously.
i can’t wait to hear it!!!and they are a really great band and ville is a great compositor and they don’t need to be like anyone else
the album.. is it possible release on Indonesia, I hope so
can’t wait yeaaahhhh
Euronymous? quit disssing HIM and go back to you black metal, cunt. I love all kinds of metal from Deicide to Alestorm, but HIM are just quallity.
I’m 25 and listen to HIM. I also like Slayer, Metallica, Cradle of Filth, Satyricon and Judas Priest. You cannot deny that they are talented and Linde is an underrated guitarist.See a live show and you will see what I mean. He can even hold his own against Kirk Hammett(Metallica)! Sounds far-fetched but it’s true.
it really dose not matter to me that it sound a little deffrent him is still the best. uneasy listening was very diffent also it just show there range of talent him awsom and i will like every sond on he new album i am sure of that.
pues no lo puedo creer jaja amo a HIM son los mejores y con respecto al cd jaja pues lla escuche la de heartkiller y pues k puedo desir esta muy bueno demasiado geneal macnifica
cant wait to hear the whole album especially St Valentine, drum n bass, and him? should be interesting,
sounds like this album is going to be more Electronic (if that’s the right term to use)
i just cant wait for it lol
I’ve been listening to HIM since late 2000 or early 2001….I actually have a friend from Finland and she gave me a copy of the Finnish Razorblade Romance, very cool. So yeah, there may be some teenybopper fans just because Ville is good looking, but there are also us older people that dig HIM too. Quit hatin! Haha.
Heartkiller is a little poppy….but I like it. Looking forward to the new album!!
I think ppl that have a go at him sound really insecure! I don’t give a fuck if it sounds faggy, even chuck Norris has most definatly fallen in love lol! Can’t wait for this album, I hope it kicks the shit out of Venus doom!!! Him ftw!!! X
Um, here’s an idea: Let’s not talk shit to one another, and stop putting down the band!
If you don’t like HIM, why would you spend your time browsing through articles about them? You don’t look badass or whatever, you just look kind of stupid.
And you’re going to post a comment, how about one actually relating to the article? Instead of, “Ville’s the sex!” Shit gets annoying…
So, yeah. Be nice and stop hating.
Bayne’s comment made me laugh, though : “hahaha, what a god awful band. They couldn’t have chosen a funnier name for their new album though. Sexual? sexual? ooh, that’ll get all the 13 year old girls going.”
I’m 13, so….haha(: