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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.
Sleepwalking Past Hope
Him Lyrics
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To hold you in my sweetest pain and suffering
Everything's unfair in our lust and war
Redemption beyond right and wrong
In our hearts love keeps sweet-talking to despair
And goes on sleepwalking past hope
All is lost in this war
Sleepwalking past hope
I unlit the light to embrace the dark
To be near but not to turn into you my darling
Forever we're lost in our souls' storm
Reflections of each other's faults
I gave up long ago
Painting love with crimson flow
Ran out of blood and hope
So I paint you no more
My hell begins from the 10th and descends to the circle
Six hundred threescore and six
And from there I crawl beneath Lucifer's claws just for one last kiss
The lyrics to HIM's song "Sleepwalking Past Hope" tell a story of a complicated, intense love that is filled with pain and suffering. The singer has hidden the keys to "love's heart," because they want to hold their lover in the midst of that pain and suffering, even though they recognize that everything is unfair in love's "lust and war." Redemption in this context comes from something beyond just being right or wrong; it's about tapping into the depths of emotion and struggle that define their relationship.
The chorus speaks to the heart of the struggle, where love and despair are perpetually locked in a tense dialogue. The singer feels like they are "sleepwalking past hope," which suggests a sense of resignation or defeat. All they can do is wail and weep to the saddest song, because their love feels like it's beyond saving.
Later in the song, the singer takes responsibility for their own role in the chaos of this relationship. They embrace the darkness instead of the light, and they recognize that they're "lost in our souls' storm" with their lover. The line "reflections of each other's faults" is particularly telling, because it acknowledges that each person in a relationship brings their own flaws and struggles to the table. Finally, the lyrics take a dark turn, with references to hell, Lucifer, and a descent into darkness.
Overall, "Sleepwalking Past Hope" paints a picture of a love that is both intense and destructive, where the line between love and despair is blurred. The singer seems to be caught in a cycle of pain and suffering, unable to find a way out of the darkness.
Line by Line Meaning
I hid the keys to unlock love's heart
I deliberately didn't show you how to love me, so that I could keep you in my grip and inflict pain on myself through my love for you.
To hold you in my sweetest pain and suffering
I wanted to keep you close to me, even if it meant enduring pain and suffering.
Everything's unfair in our lust and war
Our love is marked by fierce competition, and everything about it is unfair.
Redemption beyond right and wrong
There is no justice or morality in love, but it can still offer redemption.
In our hearts love keeps sweet-talking to despair
Our love is a constant struggle between hope and despair.
And goes on sleepwalking past hope
We continue to blindly pursue our love, despite the hopelessness of our situation.
All is lost in this war
Our love has caused us to lose everything.
And all we can do is to wail and weep to the saddest song
The only release we have from the pain of our love is to cry and mourn.
I unlit the light to embrace the dark
I intentionally avoided illuminating our love to keep it in a dark, tortured place.
To be near but not to turn into you my darling
I wanted to be close to you, but not become like you, even though I knew I was already losing myself to our love.
Forever we're lost in our souls' storm
We're trapped in a constant internal struggle over our love.
Reflections of each other's faults
We see our own flaws mirrored in each other.
I gave up long ago
I've given up on ever finding real love.
Painting love with crimson flow
The love I experience is bloody, violent, and painful.
Ran out of blood and hope
I've used up all of my energy and optimism trying to find love.
So I paint you no more
I won't keep trying to create a picture of our love that's only going to lead to despair.
My hell begins from the 10th and descends to the circle
The descent into my inner hell begins at the 10th circle of Dante's Inferno and goes even lower.
Six hundred threescore and six
666 is the number of the beast, referenced in the Book of Revelation in the Bible.
And from there I crawl beneath Lucifer's claws just for one last kiss
I'm willing to go to hell and be with the devil just to feel the warmth of love one more time.
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: VILLE VALO
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