And so, as I had promissed some time ago, this month I was supposed to upload a short material from the concert of the band in Austria, Nova Rock Festival. I suppose, some of You were there themselves, as I could hear a Bulgarian speech at places. :) The link can be found in TVRequest
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Part of the forum group are organizing a travel to Prague, Czech Republic, to visit the band's gig on the 12th of October. There are already some errands done over the buying of the tickets and the travelling organization. If you are interested see the topic in the forum or write to tumnasianka.
The co-fans in the UK listed a poll in which everyone is free to vote for a favourite song to be played live on the upcoming autumn tour. There are even some songs that have never been played live so far! In the list you could see songs such as Venus Doom, Ode To Solitude, For You and to the importancce of You all - Love's Requiem! If you are intending to see the band play live in the autumn or you simply want to hear certain songs live, you can give your vote Here.
Please keep on voting in our poll for a favourite song. It's been very interesting and challenging so far.
Nothing left but to wish you all a very sunny summer! If only something urgent comes out aboout the band! In youtube you will be able to find almost the full concerts from Warsaw, Ruisrock and Maxidrom. In August I will try to upload a 30 minute video to be downloaded from the Nova Rock Festival in Austria.
From the middl eof August the band is hitting the road to America. At Rock Allegiance tour HIM will be playing togather with bands such as Volbeat and Airbourne. Then, during the Fall there will be many gigs across Europe, so I am encouraging you to look around for dates in the closer to us countries if you can go and see them live. They will be in Viena on October the 10nth, and after that they will be supported in Germany by Paradise Lost again.
Vote for the album of the year - Tears On Tape 2013 - YLEX
Scared To Death (Secret show Live in Berlin 2010) Dim lights
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Be eager! Very soon new photographs and a new video from the Nova Rock Festival 2013 will be a treat for you in our website! The closest distination to see the band live is Viena at this stage. The gig is still not added to the band's facebook page, but at Nova Rock there were posters ( as well as Ville himselve confirmed), that on the October the 13th at Gasometar (as usual venue point) the band will be playing. We will be pleased if any of you share any kind of videos and photos from the gigs you've attended. And if someone accidentally comes upon the guys, please remind them that its high time to come over Bulgaria ;)
In 2004 HIM won the prize Golden Gods distributed by Metal Hammer and rocked out real hard for this occasion. See the video:
Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards 2004 Dim lights
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Less than a month after the release of Tears On Tape the album is at the very top of the charts of the best-seller album. In Finland and Germany the album is on the 2nd place. In Billboard Top Rock Album's classation it is #1, #1 on Vinyl, #3 on Rock, #3 on Alternative and #8 on Physical! In the States more than 20,000 copies were selled out only during the first week. This is the second album to achieve so intense sales since 2005 Dark Light. In general all was good until the beginning of the tour. At the very 1st gig, however, Ville had an asthma attack and the tour has been cancelled. What matters is that he is already feeling better and standing on his feet. Later on new dates for the autumn were released.
As for heartagram.com all seems to be under the veil of a huge mystery. Practically there is no website, but an amazing video of Linde and Lucifers Chorale is uploaded. :)
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Here it comes, only a few days seperate us from the release of Tears on Tape. I guess you all have already listened to it and even have a favorite song. At least thats what I can say concidering the poll, where the battle is challenging! However, we have no information why after all the stuff that fell into the internet, there is still no videos for both Into The Night and All Lips Go Blue. In the same context the official webpage is still kept mute. This delay of the potential videoclips might be explained with a slight change into the plans ( like once upon a time when Buried Alive By Love was filmed before Funeral Of Hearts, but released weeks after) But this does not explain why only 5 days before the official release heartagram.com is a complete mess...although it is obvious....they will run it in 5 days! :D
Just on the second week Tears On Tape [single] is in the winning-positions in radio Z-Rock TOP40! Keep voting every 24 hours - http://www.zrockbg.com/rock40
The logo of the webpage has been changed with the release of Tears On Tape era!!!
As for the video of the month: Download Festival 2004 Diary Dim lights
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Today in the morning Tears On Tape was already in the cyber space. As long as we all ordered the album, it's all good ;) To the rest, enjoy the listening...
During this week Tears on Tape video was released - you can see it from HERE and HERE. The other two videos for All Lips Go Blue and Into The Night are expected in the next few days or so.
And surely the new POLL - Which is your favorite song from Tears On Tape?
The photo session of the band for 2013 is available from Razor&Tie and in huuuge scale and quality in case you want to print them as a poster.
The video for All Lips Go Blue was filmed in the beginning of the week by Eugene Riecansky (Scared to Death, Ode To Solitude). The videos of Into The Night and Tears On Tape are ready and already some people managed to see them. Probably on Monday-Tuesday they should be released into the web void!
This month we are choosing two videoclips :) for long those videos were almost impossible to find. I think this made them a bit special, and probably some people haven't seen them still. Enjoy! ;) HIM - Poison Girl, Right Here In My Arms (Southside Festival 2000)
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3 different singles with 3 different video clips filmed in 3 different countries!This was the hot issue that Ville and Mige spilled out in this week's Kerrang. All Lips Go Blue will be a single in the UK, Into The Night in Finland, а Tears On Tape in Russia. The videos for Into The Night and Tears oN Tape are already shot, wheareas All Lips Go Blue is about to be shot. The video director is Stefan Lindfors (The Funeral Of Hearts)!
While we were talking, 30 second preview of Tears on Tape have been downloaded from Amazon. However, till the leaking of the album there are only 45 days and obviously at this stage this doesn't do much change.
All Lips Go Blue will be the 1st single of the upcoming Tears On Tape. This was announced by Ville himself on radio Kerrang a few days ago. A new video montage is up to come, which means, that until the 5th of April it should be done.
Razor AND Tie have released a webcite for sale of the album + t-shirts or switchers, vinels, etc. They are unique but be careful as the cost of the delivery is pretty salty. edited
You can already hear 30 secunds preview from each song of Tears On Tape - Аmazon. From the same link it can be seen the length of each song and therefore the whole album. It seems like the shortest in the band's history so far. 40:56, and without the instrumental parts around 34:30.
1. Unleash The Red 1:07 2. All Lips Go Blue 3:49 3. Love Without Tears 3:37 4. I Will Be The End Of You 3:33 5. Tears On Tape 3:21 6. Into The Night 3:36 7. Hearts At War 3:46
8. Trapped In Autumn 1:33 9. No Love 3:30 10. Drawn & Quartered 5:13 11. Lucifer's Chorale 1:18 12. W.L.S.T.D. 4:12 13. Kiss The Void 2:21
It looks like all is messed up right now. There is no website, no information, it's not apparent which song is gonna be single , there is no videoclip, or information of the filming of one. The date of the album release is for the end of the next month , while there is something like 40 % of the album in the internet already. Back in 2010 30 seconds samples were released in Amazon, only 10 days before the release of Screamworks. Today is the 47th day before Tears On Tape, and they are already there.
In the official HIM facebook page the message that there will be very very soon more information of the album was shared. Many people believe the release date would be change for earlier. All this is still yet to be clearfied in the first days of the next week.
The text of the Into The Night have been added to section Texts. In the forum you will be able to see the new photo of the band for 2013. FORUM
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