There are multiple artists with this name;

1) HIM (sometimes stylize… Read Full Bio ↴There are multiple artists with this name;

1) 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.

In 2005, HIM released Dark Light, which became the group's most commercially successful album to date, charting in fifteen countries. With Dark Light, HIM also became the first Finnish group to receive a gold record in the US. In 2007, HIM released Venus Doom, the making of which was marred by problems in Valo's personal life. Despite this, the album gave the band their highest chart position in the US at number twelve. After 2010's Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice, HIM went on hiatus as drummer Gas Lipstick took medical leave. Following several months of uncertainty, the band regrouped and eventually released the album Tears on Tape in 2013. In 2015, Gas Lipstick announced his departure from the band to pursue other musical projects, and was subsequently replaced by Jukka "Kosmo" Kröger. On 5 March 2017, HIM announced that the band would be disbanding following a farewell tour in 2017. The band played their final show on New Year's Eve 2017 as a part of their annual Helldone Festival.

HIM is one of the most commercially successful Finnish bands of all time, with sales of over ten million records. The band have released eight studio albums, five compilations, three video releases, and two box sets, along with one live and one remix album. HIM has also received numerous accolades, including eight Emma Awards.

Critics have referred to the music of HIM as gothic rock, gothic metal, alternative rock, alternative metal, and dark rock. The band themselves have referred to their music as "love metal", the title of their fourth studio album. According to Ville Valo, the term "love metal" was coined as a response to people having difficulties categorizing their music.

A central of part of HIM's image has been the heartagram. The heartagram is the trademarked symbol of the band, which was created by vocalist Ville Valo on his twentieth birthday in 1996. A combination of a heart and a pentagram, the heartagram is meant to represent the juxtaposition of "the soft and the hard, the male and the female, the yin and the yang" according to Valo. Musically the heart is also meant to represent the softer side of the band, while the pentagram symbolizes their heavier influences. This juxtaposition was also prevalent in the band's album titles. On their first album, HIM used a heart with "666" inside it as their logo, which Valo later felt was "a bit boring". The heartagram was first predominantly used on the cover of HIM's 2003 album Love Metal, and has since appeared on numerous releases from the band. Valo has later stated that the heartagram "is probably the best thing I've ever come-up with", and that it's "worth a lot more than money" and is "bigger than our band". The heartagram has also made several appearances on TV, including Charmed, LA Ink, Viva La Bam, and Criminal Minds.

2) HiM is a dub influenced post-rock group formed in 1995 by Doug Scharin, drummer for the bands Codeine, Rex and June of 44. Their first album, Egg, was their most dub-based effort. Each successive album has gone more in a quasi-world music direction. After some recording for Crooklyn Dub Consortium and Wordsound, "Interpretive Belief System", HiM settled on a lineup of Scharin with Bundy K. Brown, Rob Mazurek and Jeff Parker, members or occasional members of Tortoise and Isotope 217. Their first album was the underground hit Sworn Eyes, produced by Doug Scharin. A few personnel changes followed, and the revamped lineup including members of June of 44. Golden released Our Point of Departure in 1999, which signified a very clear shift toward a more jazz-like sound, followed by a major American and European tour. In 2003, HiM released Many In High Places Are Not Well on Fat Cat Records, which was received as their most successful and fully realized release. Peoples was released in mid-2006, featuring a cleaner sound with more vocals than any of HiM's previous releases. Included in this line-up are Martin Perna and Jordan McLean from Antibalas, Griffin Rodriguez from Need New Body/Icy Demons, Adam Pierce (Mice Parade).

The latest HiM records, "1110" and ん,released in 2008 and 2009 on Afterhours in Tokyo, are collaborations between Doug Scharin, Josh Larue and the Tokyo-based group, Ultra Living.

3) The group was composed of the following main members:

* Shizuka Nakajima （vocals）
* Shungo Makihashi (vocals)
* Non (dancer)
* Yocco (dancer)

4) H.I.M. (Her in Mind) an r&b singer best known for his reply album to H.E.R.'s album in 2017.

Beyond Redemption
HIM Lyrics

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I see your scars
I know where they're from
So sensually carved and bleeding
Until you're dead and gone
I've seen it all before
Beauty and splendor torn
It's when heaven turns to black
And hell to white

Right so wrong and wrong so right

Feel it turning your heart into stone
Feel it piercing your courageous soul
You're beyond now- redemption
And no one's going to catch you when you fall

I see you crawl
You can barely walk
And arms wide open
You keep on begging for more
I've been there before
Knocking on the same door
It's when hate turns to love

And love to hate
Faith to doubt and doubt to faith

Overall Meaning

The song "Beyond Redemption" by HIM is a melancholic ballad that speaks to the struggle of an individual who is grappling with the hopelessness and despair of their existence. The lyrics "I see your scars, I know where they're from, so sensually carved and bleeding, until you're dead and gone" conjure up powerful imagery of a person's inner turmoil, manifesting in self-harm, which seems to be their only means of coping with their emotional pain. The line "I've seen it all before, beauty and splendor torn, it's when heaven turns to black and hell to white, right to wrong and wrong to right" reflects the overarching theme of duality present throughout the song, where good and evil, right and wrong, beauty and ugliness, are all intertwined and constantly shifting.

As the song progresses, it becomes clear that this individual has reached a point of no return ("you're beyond now- redemption"), where they are no longer able to save themselves, and neither can anyone else ("and no one's going to catch you when you fall"). The line "feel it turning your heart into stone, feel it piercing your courageous soul" speaks to the emotional numbness and desensitization that comes with prolonged suffering and trauma. The final verse "It's when hate turns to love and love to hate, faith to doubt and doubt to faith" highlights the cyclical nature of emotions and the paradoxical nature of life - that the things we once cherished and held dear can become the source of our discord and conflict.

Overall, "Beyond Redemption" is a poignant and powerful expression of existential despair and serves as a reminder that even in our darkest moments, we must hold on to the hope that things will get better.

Line by Line Meaning

I see your scars
I am aware of the injuries that you bear

I know where they're from
I understand the origin and source of those wounds

So sensually carved and bleeding
So intimately and delicately created and still exuding blood

Until you're dead and gone
Until your being ceases to exist

I've seen it all before
I have witnessed similar occurrences in the past

Beauty and splendor torn
Magnificence and grandeur shattered

It's when heaven turns to black
This happens when paradise becomes dark and obscure

And hell to white
And hell transforms into a luminous milieu

Right so wrong and wrong so right
Conformity to ethical principles becomes unclear and confusing

Feel it turning your heart into stone
Sensation of your heart transforming into an unyielding rock

Feel it piercing your courageous soul
Experience of your brave essence being penetrated