Video: HIM – Heartkiller

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Video: HIM – Heartkiller

Iconic Finnish rockers HIM have just released a new video for “Heartkiller,” the first single off their upcoming album Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice. While I can’t say I like the art direction, and overall aesthetic, the song isn’t all that bad. For some reason I can’t help but be reminded of that movie Queen of the Damned with that weird rocker vampire Lestat de Lioncourt. Check out the video and an interview with Ville about the video below.

HIM frontman Ville Valo recently sat down with Metal Hammer magazine to discuss the forthcoming album saying, “Lyrically, it’s the most sexual

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This Is Me Smiling also opened up for Empires at Lincoln Hall, and were the pleasant surprise of the night. Rufus Wainwright eat your heart out. Photography by "Third World" Timmy on his Nikon D90.

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By far one of the most energetic punk rock shows I have been to in a long time. "It's JEMEEEEAAAAANA not like aunt Jemima!" Photography by "Third World" Timmy on his Nikon D90.

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"Third World" Timmy's first show at Lincoln Hall and it was a doozy with indie-rockers Kid, You'll Move Mountains. All photography shot on a Nikon D90.

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One of "Third World" Timmy's favorite new bands of 2009, and he's lucky enough to snap a few shots of them with his D90 during their quick set at The Metro.

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The Sarmiento's and their new band play at the dark and mysterious dive bar Ronny's. All photography shot by "Third World" Timmy on his Nikon D90 after drinking 7 PBRs.

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Photos from Welcome To Ashley's headlining set at one of my new favorite rock joints, The Empty Bottle. All photography on done with the Nikon D90.

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Kina Grannis plays to a packed house at Beat Kitchen and gets numerous requests for her hand in marriage. Photography by Tim Toomey on his Nikon D90.

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Geronimo! headlines at the Fireside Bowl. All photography by Tim Toomey on his Nikon D90.

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The Please And Thank Yous opened up for Geronimo! at the legendary Fireside Bowl in Chicago. For some reason they left the lights on though? All photos by Tim Toomey on his D90.

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Jonny Rumble rocks Oswald Hobbes' and "Third World" Timmy's fucking faces off at their album release show at the Beat Kitchen. All photography by Tim Toomey on his D90.

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, 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. For more information on HIM, visit their official site at www.heartagram.com.

Ville talks about Heartkiller


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