Album biography ' Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights '

Album biography " Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights "

Anarchy, Alien and Armageddon. We have not expected what everything of the millennium-year 2000... Well, the quite big bang didn't occur - and however something exceptional is in this year, something wonderful happens: To times of the fun-society, in which can only experience itself people in extreme-situations or finding in Computer-animierten appearance-natures hopes, a band awakened our forgets believed sense for intimate emotion: HIM. Her/its/their second album RAZORBLADE of ROMANCE dipped Control-Charts over one year into the German medium (Chartentry of 0 on 1) on, heimste triple gold an and possessed Join Me with the romantic ballad " (in Death) " a golden number one-single. This would be enough reason only to philosop 444o1420e hize for the rest of the evening and these sides over this masterpiece from rough rock music and lived melancholy to praise the sensuality, with the singer Ville Valo his/its creativity enjoys life and, to thank him/it, that he/it let us share in the trip through his/its feeling-world - would be, yes, DEEP SHADOWS was not there & BRILLIANT HIGHLIGHTS, the new chapter in the success-history of the five Finns. " The album shows undetected facets in our sound " up to now, Valo, that drew responsibly for music and texts once again, tells. " The metallic elements have decreased. Essentially we are not removed far from him/it, what monsters do magnet. The material is held simpler, umso comes more on the point however. I already hope, the listeners with the new material a, to can surprise little. It would be as well as for us, as also the fans tediously, if we ten reprints of " Join Me (in Death) would " publish.
Instead, HIMS grant themselves and us a wider spectrum at artistic development-possibilities: While the first single " Pretending ", " Close To The Fleming " and " in Joy And Sorrow ", hearts renew has melted, Please Don´t Let presses " It Go ", " Don´t Close Your Heart " or " Heartache Every moment " DEEP SHADOWS & BRILLIANT HIGHLIGHTS a very rough, skirt-y stamp, that puts the mentioned influences of the seventies year frankly, on. " They are the two sides of this band ", the front-man confirms. Also the title was chosen " in this context.
With the last CD, too much value was put by the public on the thoughtful moments. The sound was in retrospect a little too polished - DEEP SHADOWS & BRILLIANT HIGHLIGHTS it will remind all of it that we are a skirt-band, that can be relatively relaxed also once. And to experiment moreover is able: With " Salt In Our Wounds " and " Beautiful " appears two songs, that insert itself into the album atmospherically admitteldly, in her/its/their Depeche Mode-artigen sound however new facets of the quintet (under it of the Burton again entered for Keyboarder Zoltan Pluto) shows. The formation-process resembled the attempt to compose a puzzle. Thanks of the immense success of RAZORBLADE ROMANCE remained Valo only the possibility to write the new songs during the tours in hotel-doing carpentry and on European highways. As soon as one sensed Finnish ground under the feet, one went with friend and producer T.T. Oksala (The 69 Eyeses) into the approved Finnvox-Studio, in order to entrance together the devised on CD. " The receptions were rent admitteldly very much, but essentially that was no bad operation ", thinks the 24-jährige. " If one grants itself pauses again and again, one has time to think about the material and to improve it in the end. Such a process extends on the other side of course: Ten months, it has lasted, until we DEEP SHADOWS & BRILLIANT HIGHLIGHTS in the box had - with RAZORBLADE ROMANCE was it exactly 22 days ". Kevin Shirley (Aerosmith, Silverchair), Randy Straub (Metallica) and in conclusion John Fryer (Depeche fashion) helped to perfect the tonal tricks tonally. And the work has been worthwhile.
The new HIM-Album is full before won self-confidence, fascinates through catchy, like stunning melody-leaderships and moves the listener into a world from elegance, charm and passion. Thematically, it works renews about the relationships between man and woman Valo their microcosm he/it transfers on higher levels. " DEEP SHADOWS & BRILLIANT HIGHLIGHTS " represents a certain part of my diary. It is about certain, very small, seemingly insignificant experiences, that taught " me certain principles of the life in the end however. One of it involved the skirt-business in general. Umworbens of TV, press and fans decided HIM to pull the emergency break and " to remember it again, why we have started to play " in a band, Valo explains. " At that time, it was not about prices, Coverstories and videos but simply only about music. That is the kernel of the total, the origin all his, why we are here. One could say that DEEP SHADOWS & BRILLIANT HIGHLIGHTS as regards content a gaze back throws, artistically however new options opens ". Because an is certain: DEEP SHADOWS & BRILLIANT HIGHLIGHTS may be only one inter-step in the young career of HIM - however a crucial. Whoever doesn't go along these ignores the fascination from unrestrained dedication and carefree Lebensphilosphie. Also in the year 2001, Ville Valos and colleagues ask us the question: " What would be a life without romanticism "? Sorrowfully that, that knows no answer on it

Biography

The success-recipe of the next HIM-Krachers is expounded quickly:
Under the motto " less is sometimes more " one can describe the arrangement of the stanzas of " Gone With The Sin ". A spherical surface wraps the lines, that Ville Valo interprets chant-like equally, as he/it describes it in his/its Statement over this ballad: warm and fragile.
The refrains have almost one hymn-good character, the melody already takes root after unique hearing in the heads of the people.
" Gone With The Sin " is Villes favorite-song and for him/it the most honest and wahrhaftigste love-song, what he/it has ever written. And this will divide not only the lady-world with him/it...!

This " Limited " has it in itself!
Five whole Trackses in most different presentation-form show the spread of Ville and his/its boys. " Gone With The Sin " becomes not only, as accustomed, as radio - and album-version presents but also in a way, that clearly does, as experimentierfreudigs HIM can be, in that they generate a synthesis, into which they lets her/its/their style coalesced with parameters of the Klassik. The result of the Session with renowned Finnish violinists, cellists etc string-inside has beaten romantic-hugging truly more highly!
The acoustics-friends can themselves over and above all on " For You " pleases. Read but necessary leases also a Live-Track may not be missing.

Here, one decided in favor of " Bury Me Deep Inside ", from the Berlin concert this of year.
No one remain surely with this single (musical) questions frankly...!

It became the first musical milestone of the new millennium, that second HIM-Album " Razorblade Romance " - nr. 1 of the Albumcharts and simultaneously nr. 1 of the Singlecharts with the Auskopplung " Join Me ". Not badly for a band their name time was still Finland-insiders a concept if need be recently.

Let's blind back:

1996, front-man established Ville Hermanni Valo with some friends in Helsinki the band in order to put his/its personal version of " dismally-skirt with Pop-Appeal " into the action. Already with the second demo the band could land a deal with the Finnish BMG and published the debut-album " Greatest Lovesongs Vol on it shortly. 666 ". Two Top - Ten-Singles and an album-gold-award later sloshed the hysteria over the band also to Germany over. G.U.N. Records of licensed " Greatest Lovesongs Vol.666 ", and exuberant press-reactions took care quickly of it that the band was acted as legitimate candidate on the Gothic-Rock-Thron. The perfect synthesis from dim sounds, that the best probably itself with the already proverbial Finnish melancholy and catchy melodies has explained, ignited mightily and catapulted the band in the Leser-Polls of the pertinent music-press to the front far.

But it was not only the indisputably good music and flirting with the magic pay-consequence 666 (with the HIM the proximity of love and death stylizes) that the newcomers did to the object of the desire. Ville Valo, front-man and main-songwriters in personnel-union, not only the Looks had in order to be compared on it with the young Jim Morrison soon but proved in the starting interview-marathon as quick-witted and eloquent conversation partner, who didn't so absolutely want to fill the cliche of the eigenbrödlerischem grouch despite his/its sad-dim compositions. Ville Valo was also it, that led HIM through two Germany-tours and all important Eventses of the this year's festival-season sovereignly, because the excessive touring placed the young band in front of a first ordeal:

" By the successes, that we could show in our home, a gigantic expectation-stand was built with which we had to become ready. That was no easy situation for us. On the other hand one only notices under extreme conditions, as they are usual during a tour, whether a band works right or not. We were faced suddenly with the problem, that to must replace Drummer and the Keyboarder, according to Ville retrospective.

The problem was solved however quickly. Busy Juska, a musician stepped until now hardly in appearance, the vacant station of the Keyboarders, so wedged itself with gas Lipstick (ex-Kyyria) a real Haudegen of the Helsinki-scene behind the Drums and provided for the necessary Drive from now at. The again found stability in the Line-up was jointly responsible for it that HIMS with almost each of her/its/their concerts integrated some new songs into the set in order to sound out first public-reactions.
Ville: " While we toured in Germany, we had already worked since one year on the material for our second album-there offered it to itself, that to test Tracks live. What sounds in the studio well, must work " under live-conditions by no means.

In the last spring, the quintet went to lifting the second album then. One fell back like with the debut on the services of producer Hiili and accepted the disk into the Finnvox studios in the native Helsinki. Some months later one announced the surprised press then that one wants to play in the disk completely again. A decision, that Ville today-with the necessary space - as follows explains:
" We had the feeling to have not gotten out the optimum with wide. Maybe it was because of us, because we had subjected the songs steady changes and slow, but sure, her/its/their original charm blurs. Maybe, it was however also because of the season, into which we had accepted the disk. The winter is simply too depressing in Finland, as that one can escape his/its strength. I believe, therefore the songs sounded in her/its/their Endversionen too depressive, too escalating...."
Some months later, HIMS hid in the studio again. This time in the Rockhouse-Studios in Wales and under the instruction of sound-fiddler John Fryer (NIN, White zombie, Depeche fashion) that procured the quintet an additional Push.
Ville is the first, that admits willingly, that Fryer of the band gave additional self-confidence and managed it so completely on the side, to tighten the arrangements: " John has opened the eyes for us, because he/it has approached completely freely at our material and has had no expectation-stand. He/it has concentrated on fully bringing our strengths to carrying and has given us valuable tips. The type is an absolute full-pro ".

HIM-Fanses could make a first impression of the collaboration with John Fryer for itself with the first Singleauskopplung " Join Me ". For the sound track of the current Roland Emmerich film " The 13th Floor " just contributed this number one and turned off one film-sequences containing video-clip. If the song already turned out after few runs as small Gothic-Rock-Oper with enormous Hitpotential, so the video-clip, in which Ville carried out the visual change to a modern version of the art-figure of Ziggy Stardust seemingly easily, provided more sensation.

The ground for the publication of " Razorblade Romance " is therefore perfectly made ready, especially since clearly grown itself the band the class of the debut-work of toppen kann.Zwar shows and has itself the success-concept, the combination from hard guitars and melancholy melodies, only about nuances altered, but the band approach her/its/their vision of " Goth'n Roll " amazingly come. Almost alarming intensively interprets dismally-morbid Tracks one like ' Gone With The Sin' or ' Join Me', while driving songs like ' She'll Be (Right Here In of My arm) ', ' Razorblade Kiss' or that as Reminiszens at the debut remembered ' 666 Revisited's amazingly easily from the boxes rocks.

The previous success-recipe became until on the fact that one mit'Heaven Tonight' and ' ' One load Time' a clear affinity to the eighties documents, retains consistently and testifies from grown self-confidence of the Helsinki-Fünfers.
" Razorblade Romance " is the maturity-examination of a band, that has reached the climax by no means.