❤ HIM - band from Finland. 1999 ❤

photo 1: Ville Valo, Mikko "Mige" Paananen, Juska Salminen, Mikko "Linde" Lindström, Gas lipstick / Mika Karppinen

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deep shadows and brilliant highlights gf and greatest love songs vol. 666 bf

Kuulua

A few a different meanings for this verb:

1 - Kuulua = to belong, to be a part of

"Se kuuluu asiaan." = That's just part of it. (Literally: It belongs to the thing)

"Kenelle tuo kirja kuuluu?" = To whom does the book belong?

2 - Kuulua = to be heard (DO NOT CONFUSE WITH KUULLA)

"Ei kuulunut linnun laulua" = The bird's song was not heard.

3 - Kuulua = to be heard (of) - metaphorical meaning

"Hän pohti, miksi lasta ei kuulunut." = He wondered why there was no sign of a child.

[To explain further the article title was: "Ensin lasta ei kuulunut, sitten toive adoptiosta kariutui – nyt Juska Salminen, 45, on tuore isä" = "At first there was no sign of a child, then hope of adoption fell apart - now Juska Salminen, 45, is a new dad" ... so the phrase "ei kuulunut lasta" is meaning that even though they were trying for a baby, they didn't "hear" of one - i.e. there was no signs a baby was coming]

"Hänestä ei ole kuulunut mitään." - Nothing has been heard about him. [Or perhaps more natural in English: We/I haven't heard anything from him.]

4 - Mitä kuuluu? = How are you?

5 - Se ei kuulu sinulle. = It is none of your business.

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DO NOT CONFUSE WITH THE VERB KUULLA (TO HEAR): Kuulla = to hear

"En kuullut herätyskelloa aamulla." = I didn't hear my alarm clock in the morning.

HIM: Join Me In Death (2000) 

won't you die tonight for love?

- Do you remember your first working day in HIM? What was it like?

My first day…  I will always remember the day when Ville came to my apartment to show me how to play songs from the first album. Can I use the word “work”? No.

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INTERVIEW HIM'S ALMANAC with Zoltan _ 03.01.2017

Today on Hair Metal Mixtape @ 4pm EST (16:00 GMT-5); Rock-Criminals release new single “Red Roses” on Zero dB Radio

Today on Hair Metal Mixtape @ 4pm EST (16:00 GMT-5); Rock-Criminals release new single “Red Roses” on Zero dB Radio

Rock-Criminals release video for new single “Red Roses” featuring Juska Salminen “2/4 Tüesday” Hair Metal Mixtape w/Gabe @ 4pm EST (16:00 GMT-5) on ZerodBRadio.com (Click here to listen!) Wow! Is it Tuesday already! You know what that means! 2/4 Tüesday! So stick around for Baton Rouge, L.A. Cobra and Lynch Mob just to name a few! But first… Hear N’ Tell! Rock-Criminals release video for new…

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Lesson No. 1 in Himdonism

"One Last Time" was written with the idea of having a happier end to the record, and was described by Valo as the "apology" at the end of the "romance" that begins with "I Love You (Prelude to Tragedy)", and serves as the final plea to "try one last time".[14] While recording vocals for the song, Valo was surrounded by the rest of the band (sans drummer Mika "Gas Lipstick" Karppinen) sitting naked in a lotus position.[5] The band also forced keyboardist Juska Salminen to record the song naked, which took two hours of convincing. 

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HIM (sometimes stylized as H.I.M.) was a Finnish gothic rock band from Helsinki, Finland. Formed in 1991 by vocalist Ville Valo and bassist Mikko "Mige" Paananen under the name His Infernal Majesty, the band broke up in 1993, before being reformed in 1995 by Valo and guitarist Mikko "Linde" Lindström. After being rejoined by Mige, as well as new additions keyboardist Antto Melasniemi and drummer Juhana "Pätkä" Rantala, the band, now called HIM, released their debut album Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 in 1997. In 2000, now with drummer Mika "Gas Lipstick" Karppinen and keyboardist Juska Salminen, the band released the album Razorblade Romance, which reached the number one spot in Finland, Austria and Germany. Their first single, "Join Me in Death", also charted at number one in Finland and Germany, eventually going platinum and gold respectively. Following the addition of Janne "Burton" Puurtinen on keyboards, HIM released Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights and Love Metal in 2001 and 2003 respectively. Both cracked the top ten in several countries, and allowed the band to tour the United Kingdom and the United States for the first time.

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Ville Valo &  Juska Salminen

Ville Valo very young: Funny HIM press conference in Hamburg (2000)

March 2000: With his band HIM he had a no. 1 hit with the song "Join Me" (also the album "Razorblade Romance" was a big success). In March 2000 the band came to Hamburg for their first big concert. Ville Valo and the boys from HIM spoke to the journalists at a press meeting.

Interview with Juska Salminen: former HIM keyboardist (1998-2000)

Interview with Juska Salminen: former HIM keyboardist (1998-2000)

At Ville Valo Italy our main goal is to preserve the HIM Legacy (1991 ✝ 2017) we built with HIMI (His Infernal Majesty Italy) in (2008 ✝ 2018) and promote the new projects of VV. This time we decided to crawl back to 1998, when HIM had a new keyboardist, very well appreciated by the fans and still loved by everyone today.

The first and only studio album where Juska worked on with HIM was Razorbla…

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i don’t need spotify to tell me HIM was my top artist this year the 100+ hours i’ve spent listening to them says enough

Forgotten Treasures: The Razorblade that will make you feel love

Artist: HIM (His Infernal Majesty) Album title: Razorblade Romance Release date: December 19, 1999 Duration: 54:33 (11 songs) Genre: Love Metal Rating: 9/10

There are always albums that people forget about, or have never heard of before and basically this is the reason why I’ve decided on Forgotten Treasures section. Such a record, forgotten or not known in wide publiceye is Razorblade Romance by Finnish band HIM – His Infernal Majesty.

Love Metal sounds like a mixture of two things that seemingly don’t go together. Seemingly. Thanks to HIM things that once sounded improbable took another direction of the band playing with the idea of fusing those two words together... and the result? The band’s best album – Razorblade Romance.

As the name of the record itself is disturbing –challenging your imagination with the razorblades and love – the more you listen to it the better you understand. Under the metallic shield done of the metal music you will find a beautiful fragile rose in its wake. Metal is not just music for hardcore people who are acting tough – thanks to Ville Valo and his band mates – metal can be sweeter, tenderer and heart-wretching.

Master of love – these are the words to describe Ville Valo’s ability to write songs about love. ‘I Love You (Prelude To Tragedy)’ or ‘Join Me In Death’ are just fractions of his work on love. The Shakespeare of love metal, he sees the dark side of love – the poisonousness, the tragedy and the pretentious play – “A prey she was for the cruelty of love while its serpent inside crawled straight towards her heart. The coldest kiss love ceased to exist while we grew apart like never before. “ [Poison Girl] What’s even more attractive about this man is his unique voice and the vocal range, which he maintained wide during his career, also the ability to hit the right Metal depths when needed which are  in a matter of seconds changed into sky-high notes and so Razorblade Romance is flawless in that matter. What’s more, in his words there is hidden poetry which seems to be pushed into the background because of the music genre, but in fact all it is doing to the lyrics is that the more harder it gets the more lost you get, the more you think of it, the more magical it gets. But it’s not always about the dark side. There are those pictures of happiness, comfort and beauty that the love brings along and Mr Valo knows it perfectly. “She is smiling like heaven is down on earth. Sun is shining so bright on her. And all her wishes have finally come true.” [Right Here In My Arms]

Surely, this dark beauty would be nothing if it wasn’t for Mikko Lindström’s marvellous guitar solos and bridges, giving the rockish groove to the band on this and on the latter records. The David Copperfield of the album is, unsurprisingly, Juska Salminen because his work with keyboards and synth sounds is exceptional. The peak of his work for me is ‘Join Me In Death’, which is phenomenally composed song – when you listen to in you know that it all was meant to be put together into such a gracious timeless tune.

Mikko Paananen and his bass patterns are what give the album its Metal core. Without his energetic playing, they wouldn’t be able to become Metal band at that point. Migé and ‘Gas Lipstick’ Karppinen are the two giving the band what is seeks for – the beautiful Finnish cold metal heart.

From that you can see that HIM is the band where everyone have his own place and everyone is better at something else which in the end bring tunes like ‘Right Here In My Arms’ which is uptempo tune about never letting a girl to go or ballads like ‘Heaven Tonight’ or an album masterpiece ‘Gone With the Sin’ that just could not sound any better.

You don’t have to be metal fan, you don’t have to be a pop-lover who hates hard music. You don’t have to like HIM, but at the end you will undoubtedly admit that Razorblade Romance is an album that was, have been and is first and one of its kind.

HIM 2000

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3-5 --  01.01.2000 - Köln / Cologne, Germany