最近没什么新消息，就看看采访吧Him interview.Eve Roberts - 11 Apr 2008Eve Roberts recently took a soul-searching journey with Finland’s masters of melancholy metal – HIM. The band toured Australia and New Zealand in late March - their last stops on a worldwide tour that followed the release of their latest album, Venus Doom.In a Sydney harbour hotel room, two coffee cups sit on a table, next to a paperback of Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry and a pack of Marlboros. Across the table, behind a cloud of cigarette smoke, I see Ville Valo lean forward to pour himself another black coffee. “I don’t believe in the existence of soul,” says Valo, lifting his head up. Under the brown gatsby hat, his intense gaze reiterates his point. “I believe in soulful things but I don’t have a soul to search.”Valo is the singer and songwriter of HIM. The other coffee cup belongs to Migé, HIM’s burly bass player. 

I check Migé’s ghoulish chest X-ray T-shirt for evidence of soul between the bones, but there is nothing. Yet, he is more upbeat about it. “I think who delivered the final blow to the word ‘soul’ was James Brown,” says Migé, an impish smile escaping through his long lanky hair. “He’s a fine man but he annihilated the word with his insane behaviour.”These are intriguing words coming from members of a band that for 15 years has performed songs about dark tortures of the soul. Anguish, loneliness, love and death have been the essence of HIM’s music, and these themes were explored with a gloomy edge in their latest album Venus Doom.But if there is no soul, then why does the song “Sleepwalking Past Hope” lament that we are forever lost in our soul’s storm? Why does “Cyanide Sun” try to separate souls entwined in labirynthe lies? “Introspection is very healthy at times,” explains Valo. “What can be more fascinating than the everchanging relationship with yourself.”

“I was a moody bastard when working on Venus Doom, so it turned out to be a fairly gloomy album,” he admits, lifting his elaborately tattooed arm to take another drag of his cigarette. I notice two thick silver rings on his middle and ring fingers. “I went through a lot of shit and I don’t have anybody to cry to. I don’t have any shoulders so my guitar works as my shoulders.”Venus Doom holds the mirror up to Valo’s state of mind, but it also offers a clue as to another element at play. The album’s booklet expresses gratitude to Promises, Malibu – a renowned alcohol addiction centre. In previous interviews, Valo acknowledged his addiction, which saw his health deteriorate prior to going into rehab in 2007. He is drinking black coffee now, and I leave that part of Valo alone. It’s just as well because Valo puts a premium on people’s imaginations rather than his private life.

“I have my personal meaning to Venus Doom,” he replies when I ask about the album title. “That remains personal since I don’t want to spread my personal ideas like a virus. It’s good to have people’s imaginations at work.”Valo recalls coming across people with astrological interpretations of the name. I mention that I see it as a metaphor for femme fatale – a dangerous temptress. “You’ve got to give a story a good 30 years to be able to create as many interpretations as possible before you actually give the story away,” says Valo. “And when you’ve lived with your interpretation for enough of a time then that is your truth and it doesn’t really matter what the artist’s truth is. That’s art, and if we can be a part of it – pop art – that’s always a bonus.”HIM holds a distinctive place in the realm of pop-art, due to their blend of emotional lyrics and intense metal sounds. A musical potion of soft and hard, of good and evil. What Valo calls the yin-yang theme has also been reflected in HIM’s album titles, most recently with Venus Doom, but also going back to Dark Light in 2005, and 1999’s Razorblade Romance. And the reason for this mixture? “Soulful transgression happens through, at times, very violent means,” Valo explains. “I don’t believe that looking for truth has to be something peaceful, that you’ve got to be meditating upon things. You’ve got to fucking shove your fingers in the electric socket and see what happens. And then do it all over again.”

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那个坐在中间的是鸵鸟不？好可爱刚刚萌生一个奇怪的问题：看了Mige的汗毛，再看看Ville的，就在想，这家伙是不是会定期去呼热蜡，去体毛？胳膊上那么干净。。。不过左胳膊有没有都看不见。。= =~！

不是所有人胳膊都毛茸茸的吧～～

可是白人比较普遍......

yin yang theme?…

我们同学刚刚看到这张照片，说VV的腿太~~~~细了！和Mige一比。。

我印象中北欧战士就是Mige爷这个型号啊

嗯。是呀，不过话说最近这个Mige的体型一直在膨胀呃，越来越向gas靠拢了。。。看着比以前好玩多了

上电脑课开小差，来逛吧了~不容易啊~终于可以留言发帖子了（鄙视一下无能的校园网先）太长了，先顶下回去看！其实我一直很好奇 为什么身为北欧人VV没多少体毛；抽烟抽得那么凶~牙齿也不黄喝这么多酒~人到中年也没啤酒肚 = =！大家觉得呢？

牙黄的很～如果你看到白的，那一定是漂过了- -他腿上有毛的啊～同志们关心的太多了

呃，没想到一个小玩笑引来这么多反响。。

爱伦坡的诗歌，，，最爱，，，

北欧人都比较苗条的