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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.
Dying Song
Him Lyrics
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And heard you scream out loud the sweetest poem,
Echoing across the ocean reminding me why I still try
To hold onto whatever is left of you and I.
Shedding skin to a dying song,
We hum along to the evening sun 'til we are no more,
Little deaths to a dying song,
I've seen these dreams being crushed by a single thought,
And felt the envy of sadness engulf all warmth
Barely alive under ice by exchanging sighs,
With tomorrow quivering in the loneliest light,
Shedding skin to a dying song,
We hum along to the evening sun 'til we are no more
Little deaths to a dying song,
Sound a lot like life and love,
Life and love with you
Crawl back into bed tomorrow's trembling at the sight of you and I.
Shedding skin to a dying song
We hum along to the evening sun 'til we are no more
Little deaths to a dying song,
Sound a lot like life and love,
Life and love,
Life and love (dying song)
Life and love (a dying song)
With you (a dying song)
With you (dying song)
With you (dying song)
With you (a dying song)
The lyrics of HIM's song "Dying Song" paint a picture of a relationship on the brink of collapse, struggling to hold onto whatever remains of the love and life they once shared. The opening lines, "I've seen you breathe life into the weakest of hearts, And heard you scream out loud the sweetest poem" suggest that the subject of the song was once a powerful force in the life of the singer or protagonist, able to bring light where there was once darkness. But now, as the relationship deteriorates, they are left humming a dying song together, dreaming of a future that may never come.
The chorus of the song, "Shedding skin to a dying song, We hum along to the evening sun 'til we are no more, Little deaths to a dying song, Sound a lot like life," speaks to the idea that even as the relationship is dying, there is still beauty in the struggle. The phrase "shedding skin" evokes the image of a snake shedding its old skin to make way for a new one, and in this case, the old skin represents the dying relationship. The "little deaths" they experience as they hum along to the dying song are both painful and beautiful, as they signify the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.
The final lines of the song, "Crawl back into bed tomorrow's trembling at the sight of you and I," suggest that the singer is aware of the inevitable end of the relationship, and is already anticipating the pain of waking up each day with the looming knowledge that their love is fading away. The song leaves us with a sense of bittersweet longing, a nostalgic yearning for a past that can never be reclaimed.
Line by Line Meaning
I've seen you breathe life into the weakest of hearts,
I have witnessed you bringing hope to those who are hopeless
And heard you scream out loud the sweetest poem,
I have heard you speak the most beautiful words with passion
Echoing across the ocean reminding me why I still try
Your message has travelled far and it motivates me to keep going
To hold onto whatever is left of you and I.
To keep the memories of our love alive, despite what's left of it
Shedding skin to a dying song,
We are losing ourselves to a hopeless situation
We hum along to the evening sun 'til we are no more,
We sing along to life's bitter song until it overpowers us
Little deaths to a dying song,
Each pain and sacrifice we make is another small defeat to a hopeless situation
Sound a lot like life.
These small defeats are a reflection of the hardships of life
I've seen these dreams being crushed by a single thought,
I have witnessed how easy it is for our hopes to be destroyed by negativity
And felt the envy of sadness engulf all warmth
I have experienced the overpowering feeling of being consumed by sadness
Barely alive under ice by exchanging sighs,
Our love survives even though we are trapped and struggling
With tomorrow quivering in the loneliest light,
Despite a new day coming, it brings with it a sense of eerie loneliness
Crawl back into bed tomorrow's trembling at the sight of you and I.
We are afraid of the future and we seek comfort in each other's arms
Life and love with you,
Being with you makes me appreciate every moment of life and love, even if it is dying
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: Ville Hermanni Valo
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