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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.
Soul on Fire
HIM Lyrics
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No one's safe from its tender touch of pain
Everyday it's looking for new slaves
To celebrate the beauty of the grave
We are like the living dead
Sacrificing all we have
For a frozen heart and a soul on fire
Craving for deliverance
With a frozen heart and a soul on fire
Again we're falling for disgrace
And hate will shelter us from the rain
We are enslaved by the sacred heart of shame
And gently raped by the light of day
Addicted to our divine despair
The venom of the cross we bear
The guilt will follow us to death
The song "Soul on Fire" by HIM is about the addicting and destructive nature of passionate love. The lyrics describe a flame that can lead souls astray, causing pain as it seeks new slaves to celebrate the beauty of the grave. This flame represents the allure of dangerous love that often leaves individuals feeling like the living dead. They sacrifice all they have for a frozen heart and a soul on fire, a desire for the intense passion that they cannot resist.
The lyrics suggest that falling for this dangerous love is a cycle of disgrace and hate, a never-ending addiction to divine despair. The imagery used in the song refers to guilt and shame, with the sacred heart of shame enslaving those who fall into the trap of this love. The light of day is described as a gentle rape, further emphasizing the destructive and addictive nature of this love. The song captures the intense attraction that individuals feel towards the darkness, and the struggle to break free from it.
Overall, "Soul on Fire" is a powerful song about the dangers of falling in love with intensity and passion that ultimately leads to destruction. It highlights the difficulties of breaking free from addiction and the cycle of despair and guilt that accompanies it.
Line by Line Meaning
There's a flame that leads all souls astray
A powerful force drives people to deviate from what is right.
No one's safe from its tender touch of pain
The influence of that force causes pain to anyone.
Everyday it's looking for new slaves
The force actively seeks new individuals to enslave.
To celebrate the beauty of the grave
The force glorifies death as something beautiful.
We are like the living dead
We exist, but are not truly alive.
Sacrificing all we have
We give up everything we have in the name of that force.
For a frozen heart and a soul on fire
We exchange our warm feelings for cold ones and become passionate about something destructive.
Craving for deliverance
We want to be freed from the influence of that force.
Again we're falling for disgrace
We repeated our mistake and are again ashamed.
And hate will shelter us from the rain
We will seek shelter in hate when things go wrong.
We are enslaved by the sacred heart of shame
Shame has taken control of us and keeps us captive.
And gently raped by the light of day
Even the light of day hurts us.
Addicted to our divine despair
We cling to our sense of hopelessness, as if it's a source of comfort.
The venom of the cross we bear
The burden we carry is overwhelming and oppressive.
The guilt will follow us to death
We will forever bear the weight of our sinful past.
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: VILLE HERMANNI VALO
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