Finnish "love metalers" H.I.M. have just released a new video
for "Heartkiller," the first single off their upcoming album
"Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice." The new album, which
was produced by Matt Squire (The Used, Saosin, All Time Low), will
be the HIM's seventh full length record over their 13 year career.
You can check out the music video below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC-UBpsIn3w
H.I.M. frontman Ville Valo recently sat down with Metal Hammer
magazine to discuss the forthcoming album saying, "Lyrically, it's
the most sexual [album], 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."
He added, "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 9:00 a.m. 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."
"Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice" will hit stores in
the U.S. on February 9th. Here's the complete tracklisting:
1. In Venere Veritas
2. Scared to Death"
3. Heartkiller"
4. Dying Song
5. Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)
6. Love, the Hardest Way
7. Katherine Wheel
8. In the Arms of Rain
9. Ode to Solitude
10. Shatter Me With Hope
11. Acoustic Funeral (For Love in Limbo)
12. Like St. Valentine
13. The Foreboding Sense of Impending Happiness