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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.
Shatter Me With Hope
HIM Lyrics
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You can be Cassandra, underneath the sword of Damocles
We'll tear this baby apart wise like Salomon
Run, come shatter me now, shatter me with hope
Crawl, come breathe me in, bleed out all sorrows
Scream me a dream, untouched by shadows
Baby, shatter me now, shatter me now
She'll be the witness to the repose of Evelyn
Push the needles into the of canticles of ecstasy
Turn to page forty three
And you'll know how I feel
Run, come shatter me now, shatter me with hope
Crawl, come breathe me in, bleed out all sorrows
Scream me a dream, untouched by shadows
Baby, shatter me now, shatter me now
Shatter me with hope
Swear on your heart's grave I'm wrong
And run like your life's depending on it
'Cause it is!
We'll tear this baby apart, wise like Solomon
Turn to page forty three, and you'll know how I feel
Run, come shatter me now, shatter me with hope
Crawl, come breathe me in, bleed out all sorrows
Scream me a dream, untouched by shadows
Baby, shatter me now, shatter me now
Shatter me with hope
Shatter me now, shatter me now, shatter me now
Oh, you oh
Shatter me now shatter me now shatter me now
Oh, you oh
Scream me a dream
Shatter me now shatter me now shatter me now
Scream me a dream
(Shatter me now, shatter me now, shatter me now)
The lyrics of HIM's song "Shatter Me With Hope" suggest an attitude of defiance in the face of a seemingly hopeless situation. The first line refers to a girl who has been crying for love, asking it to come and play with her. This can be interpreted as a metaphor for someone who feels lonely or isolated and who desires love and companionship. The lines "You can be Cassandra, underneath the sword of Damocles / We'll tear this baby apart wise like Salomon" may refer to Greek mythology, specifically the story of Cassandra, who was cursed to always speak the truth but never be believed. The sword of Damocles was a sword suspended over a king's head by a single hair, meant to symbolize the precariousness of his position. The phrase "tear this baby apart wise like Solomon" may refer to the story of King Solomon, known for his wisdom, who threatened to split a baby in half in order to determine its true mother.
The chorus, with its repeated phrase "shatter me with hope," suggests a desire to break free from the constraints of a bleak or oppressive existence. The lines "She'll be the witness to the repose of Evelyn / Push the needles into the canticles of ecstasy" are difficult to interpret, but may refer to the idea of finding pleasure or relief in pain or suffering. The reference to page forty three is unclear, but implies that there is some hidden knowledge or secret that the listener can only access by looking at this page.
In summary, the lyrics to "Shatter Me With Hope" suggest a desire to break free from oppressive circumstances and find hope and pleasure in life, even in the face of pain and suffering.
Line by Line Meaning
The girl who cried "Love, won't you come and play with me?"
A girl desperately asking love to come to her and not ignore her
You can be Cassandra, underneath the sword of Damocles
Comparing the listener to Cassandra who was cursed to make true prophecies but never be believed and how the listener may feel under the pressure of an imminent threat
We'll tear this baby apart wise like Salomon
Together we'll handle this situation in a smart way like King Solomon did in the famous judgement where he suggested to cut the child into two to reveal the real mother
Run, come shatter me now, shatter me with hope
Urging someone to come and break them down, but through that suffering they hope to find inspiration and motivation
Crawl, come breathe me in, bleed out all sorrows
Asking someone to get closer and absorb all the pain and sadness, in order to help them process and cope
Scream me a dream, untouched by shadows
Requesting that they share a hopeful and beautiful vision of the future, without being pessimistic or allowing fears to taint it
Swear on your heart's grave I'm wrong
Demanding that someone declares their belief that the singer is incorrect, even if it means putting their own heart on the line as collateral
And run like your life's depending on it
Admonishing them to flee quickly, as if their survival is at stake
She'll be the witness to the repose of Evelyn
Referring to someone who will observe and testify to the peaceful death of someone named Evelyn
Push the needles into the of canticles of ecstasy
A reference to acupuncture or a metaphorical suggestion to inject pleasure and joy into their lives
Turn to page forty three
A specific instruction to find and read a particular passage of text that will reveal the storyteller's emotions
We'll tear this baby apart, wise like Solomon
Repeating the earlier line, emphasizing the collaboration and cleverness required to solve the current issue
Shatter me now, shatter me now, shatter me now
Repeating the title of the song as a plea to break down their emotional walls immediately
Scream me a dream
Repeating an earlier line as a request for a hopeful and optimistic vision of the future
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: Ville Hermanni Valo
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