H.I.M.

Hailing from Helsinki, Finland and crafting a variety of steel, goth and hard rock and roll they known as “love steel,” H.We.M. — known in early stages simply because His Infernal Majesty — was founded in 1991 by vocalist Ville Valo, guitarist Mikko “Linde” Lindström, and bassist Mikko “Migé” Paananen. Through the band’s early years, they released two demos, 1992’s unreleased Witches as well as other Night Anxieties, and an untitled 1995 tape that enthusiasts christened THAT IS Only the start; that season, the music group also added drummer Juhana Tuomas Rantala towards the flip. After signing an archive agreement with BMG, their first formal discharge was 1996’s 666 Methods to Like: Prologue, a Finland-only discharge limited by 1,000 copies that highlighted the band’s cover of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Video game.” By enough time from the group’s initial record, 1997’s Ideal Lovesongs, Vol. 666, that they had shortened their name to H.We.M. and recruited keyboardist Antto Einari Melasniemi. The record earned the music group a cult pursuing within their homeland, one which spread to the others of European countries with 2009’s Razorblade Love. Featuring the one “Sign up for Me in Loss of life” — which became the best-selling Finnish one ever sold — the record topped the German and Finnish graphs. When the record was released within the U.S. in 2002, a legal problem initially led to the music group going beneath the HER moniker until they bought the entire rights towards the H.We.M. name; 1000 copies from the American edition of Razorblade Love were pressed using the HER name. H.We.M. also earned a enthusiast in professional skater Bam Margera, who got every possibility to promote the music group’s music on his well-known MTV series Viva La Bam. In 2001, Valo, Lindström, and Paananen shaped the side task Daniel Lioneye, which highlighted Lindström on vocals and guitars, Valo on drums, and Paananen on bass; the project’s debut album The Ruler of Rock and roll ‘n’ Roll came that Sept. H.We.M. also released its third recording, Deep Shadows and Brilliant Shows, around that point. The very first recording to feature keyboardist Emerson Burton, it once more topped the German and Finnish graphs. H.We.M. returned 2 yrs later with Like Metallic, the band’s 1st recording to show their “heartagram” logo design around the cover rather than an image of Valo. Margera aimed the video for just one of Like Metal’s singles, “Buried Alive by Like.” The next year, H.We.M.’s first compilation, And Like Said No: THE BEST Hits ’97-’04 showed up, featuring the name track along with a cover of Neil Diamond’s “Solitary Guy” as special tunes. The band’s 2005 recording Dark Light noticeable their true discovery within the U.S., achieving the Best 20 from the Billboard 200 and getting the very first Finnish recording to achieve platinum sales status in the us. Another couple of compilations, Uneasy Hearing, Vol. 1 (which presented the band’s lighter tunes) and Uneasy Hearing, Vol. 2 (which highlighted their heavier music), found its way to 2006 and 2007 respectively. H.We.M.’s sixth record Venus Doom also found its way to 2007, and highlighted the singles “The Kiss of Dawn” and “Bleed Well”; the record was nominated for the Best Boxed/Particular Limited-Edition Packaging Grammy that season, but lost from what IT REALLY IS!: Funky Spirit and Rare Grooves. The group’s 1st live recording/DVD bundle Digital Versatile Doom premiered in 2008, and H.We.M. came back with new materials two years later on with Screamworks: Like theoretically and Practice, that your music group recorded in LA with maker Matt Squire. Later on that 12 months, the remix recording SWRMXS was offered as an electronic release so when an exclusive Compact disc at Hot Subject shops. In 2011, H.We.M. remaining Sire/Warner Information and began focusing on their 8th recording, nonetheless it was postponed due to a bone tissue condition drummer Gas Lipstick (aka Mika Karppinen) experienced. In August 2012, maker Tim Palmer, who caused the music group on Dark Light and Venus Doom, announced he was dealing with H.We.M. in London on fresh material. That Oct, the compilation XX: 2 DECADES of Like Metal showed up and featured a fresh monitor, a cover from the track “Strange Globe.” The band’s 8th recording, Tears on Tape, presented mixing function by Palmer and creation by Hiili Hiilesmaa; premiered in early 2013. In 2017, following a four-year silence, the music group announced its separation after 26 years collectively.