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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.
Disarm Me
Him Lyrics
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Turned three sevens into three sixes again
And you laughed at my face when I told you how much it hurts
And said
Disarm me with your loneliness just like always before
Deceive me out of my emptiness telling me how you love
To witness the prettiest flower in bloom wither to dust
So I'll break all the rules in this endless game once called "Love" for you
Disarm me with your loneliness just like always before and
Deceive me out of my emptiness telling me how you love
Me with all your heart no more
Disarm me with your loneliness just like always before
Disarm me with your loneliness just like always before
Deceive me out of my emptiness telling me how you love me with all your heart no more
The lyrics to HIM's song "Disarm Me" are about a toxic relationship that keeps drawing the singer back in despite the pain it causes. The opening lines describe how the promise of a heavenly future turns into a hellish reality, with the repetition of the number three emphasizing a sense of dread and foreboding. The second verse is directed at the singer's partner, who is manipulating them with false promises of love and affection. The line "you keep on tempting me to go on whatever the cost" reflects the singer's awareness that they are being played, but their addiction to the relationship is stronger than their intellect.
The chorus of the song is where the title comes in: the singer is begging their partner to "disarm me with your loneliness," meaning they want to be soothed by their partner's presence even though they know it will ultimately hurt them. The lines "deceive me out of my emptiness / telling me how you love me with all your heart no more" reveal that the relationship has lost its spark, but the singer is willing to hear anything that will keep them in it for a little while longer. In the final lines, the singer resolves to "break all the rules" of the game of love for their partner, even if it means more pain and heartbreak in the future.
Line by Line Meaning
The promise of heaven pushed us right back to hell
We were hopeful for a better future, but it only led us to a worse situation
Turned three sevens into three sixes again
Our luck has turned for the worse and we are left with less than we hoped for
And you laughed at my face when I told you how much it hurts And said
You mocked my feelings and dismissed my pain, showing a lack of compassion
Disarm me with your loneliness just like always before
You have the power to make me vulnerable and weak, as you have done in the past
Deceive me out of my emptiness telling me how you love
You use false promises and flattery to manipulate my feelings and fill my voids
You keep on tempting me to go on whatever the cost
You entice me to continue down a destructive path, even if it hurts me in the end
To witness the prettiest flower in bloom wither to dust
To see something beautiful and promising turn into something worthless and dead
So I'll break all the rules in this endless game once called "Love" for you
I am willing to sacrifice and go against my better judgement in the name of love for you
Deceive me out of my emptiness telling me how you love me with all your heart no more
You continue to manipulate and lie to me about your love, even though it is fading away
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: Ville Hermanni Valo
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