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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.
Dark Sekret Love
HIM Lyrics
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And you let me come closer
Though the hearts were filled with fear
For this dark secret love
Oh let the world turn its back
And please let me come closer
Though the hearts filled with fear
Our 666 has got a name
We burn in its flames again and again
What is it our
Dark secret love?
Set me as a seal upon thine heart,
As a seal upon thine arm,
For love is strong as death
And jealousy is cruel as the grave.
The coals thereof
Are coals of fire,
Which hath a most blazing flame.
I love you, I love you
I love you, I love you
I love you, I love you
For a moment the world turns its back
And you let me come closer
Though the hearts touched with joy
Our 666 has got a name
We burn in its flames again and again
What is it our
Dark secret love?
Our 666 has got a name
We burn in its flames again and again
What is it our
Dark secret love?
The lyrics of HIM's song "Dark Secret Love" tell us a story of a forbidden love. The first verse opens with the singer pleading for a moment of intimacy and closeness for their love. However, they acknowledge that this love is kept hidden and shielded with fear in their hearts. In the second verse, the song introduces a hidden darkness underlying the love between the two individuals. The use of "666" is a reference to the biblical number of the beast. Together, they are continuously consumed and "burnt" by this "dark secret love."
The bridge of the song carries religious undertones with the reference to the "seal upon thine heart" and "seal upon thine arm." This imagery comes from the Old Testament Song of Solomon where love is described as strong as death, and jealousy is as cruel as the grave. This religious reference portrays the love between these two individuals as insuperable and enduring.
Throughout the song, the singer expresses their love with repeated affirmations of "I love you." However, the song acknowledges that this love is hidden, and they are only brought closer for a moment, leaving a lingering fear and darkness to their love.
Line by Line Meaning
For a moment the world turns its back
Allow me to approach you unseen by the rest of the world for a brief moment
And you let me come closer
You consent to my approach and allow me to come closer to you
Though the hearts were filled with fear
Despite both of us being afraid and apprehensive
For this dark secret love
Because of our love for each other which we keep hidden and secret from the world
Oh let the world turn its back
Please let us have more moments of secrecy and intimacy away from the prying eyes of the world
And please let me come closer
Allow me to approach you even more closely
Though the hearts filled with fear
Even though our hearts are still filled with fear
For this love
Because we cannot resist our deep and passionate love for each other
Our 666 has got a name
Our forbidden love is a powerful force that we cannot escape from, and it has an identity of its own
We burn in its flames again and again
Our love consumes and destroys us repeatedly with its fiery passion
What is it our
What is the nature of our
Dark secret love?
Forbidden love which fills us with guilt and shame
Set me as a seal upon thine heart,
Love me with a deep and unbreakable bond
As a seal upon thine arm,
Let our love be visible and public
For love is strong as death
The power of our love is as strong and inevitable as death
And jealousy is cruel as the grave.
But our love is threatened by the cruel and deadly emotion of jealousy
The coals thereof
The passion and heat of our love
Are coals of fire,
Are like burning flames
Which hath a most blazing flame.
And ignite a powerful and all-consuming fire within us
I love you, I love you
My love for you is unyielding and unchanging
I love you, I love you
I will always love you
I love you, I love you
My love for you is eternal
Though the hearts touched with joy
Although we may feel moments of joy and happiness
Our 666 has got a name
Our forbidden love is an ever-present force in our lives
We burn in its flames again and again
Our love continues to consume and destroy us with its fiery passion
What is it our
What is the nature of our
Dark secret love?
Forbidden love which fills us with guilt and shame
Our 666 has got a name
Our forbidden love has an identity and power of its own
We burn in its flames again and again
Our love continues to both destroy and sustain us
What is it our
What is the nature of our
Dark secret love?
A love that we cannot proclaim or share with the world, but that fills us with a powerful fire
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Yes ! let the whole world
turn away from me!
the world will not replace me
you!
this world with its mountains of trash
nothing compared to you!
I will hide you with his powerful
wing !
just believe that you and only you
I need !
Can not you see ?
my soul beats for you?
and let the rest go
of my life,
but you , you're the only one !
ask stay with me !
this world has turned
from me!
and I suffered from icy cold
all alone!
but now I saw you !
and you are to me the light !
at the end of the tunnel !
may the gods forgive me !
but your light is brighter deities !
I wandered through life !
there were so many drops !
but I finally saw
you!
and I really want to believe in luck now !
Be my ! that is all
I now want !
I just want to love !
@beginningofthend
Anyone else going through HIM’s entire discography before listening to Ville’s new Neon Noir album? 🖤
@joser4471
And after seeing VV live! It was awesome!
@MendedSoul953
Tbh this track is what got me into H.I.M. lol. I miss these heavier, darker days of his lol. But the new stuff is honestly pretty good too, but this is magic imho.
@brigidireland
@@MendedSoul953I totally agree. Even though I love the evolution of HIM/Ville I often wonder what they would have sounded like if they had continued down the path of the Sabbathy sound.
@ddangerloves3967
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@litermort
@@MendedSoul953Nothing can be darker than now…
@stephanieclaridge9431
Never stopped listening to HIM since I was 13,
As a 34 year old now, I adore this man just the same and so happy he chose to bless us with more of his heart 🖤 yes I'm soppy, no I'm not sorry lol
@mattdad8429
You from the UK by any chance?
@JuliusPauloFlores
Me too ❤
@linutzu11
Who could dislike such a masterpiece? From the lyrics, to the riffs and not least the voice, and the vocals that this man can rach in this song. This is a true masterpiece, highly underrated and unknown by many, a thought that makes me quite sad. I think the whole world would need to hear this song for at least 1 time during their lifetime.