HIM Frontman Talks About New Album; Video Available

January 15, 2010

A nine-minute video clip of vocalist Ville Valo of Finland's hard-rock heroes HIM talking about the band's new album, "Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice", can be viewed below.

HIM will tour North America this spring in support of "Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice", which will be released by Sire Records on February 9. The headlining trek begins March 26 in Philadelphia and criss-crosses the continent before finishing up in New York City on May 7. WE ARE THE FALLEN, DOMMIN, and DRIVE A will provide support.

Ticket pre-sales begin on the band's web site on January 20 and continue up until the January 22 and January 23 public ticket on-sale dates or until the individual pre-sale tickets sell out. During the presale, fans can buy stand-alone tickets, or buy tickets that come with a copy of the band’s new album. There will also be a VIP pre-sale in which fans who buy tickets will receive a deluxe CD (on February 9),as well as a limited-edition album artwork lithograph, and a VIP tour laminate granting them early entry to the concert venue.

A special-edition two-CD version of "Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice" is available for pre-order at Heartagram.com. The package includes the full "Screamworks" CD plus an acoustic bonus disc, "Baudelaire in Braille", and a limited screen print entitled "Saint Scream", which was hand-pressed by Two Rabbits Studio.

Recorded at The Lair in Los Angeles, "Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice" was produced by Matt Squire (TAKING BACK SUNDAY, THE USED, SAOSIN) and mixed by Neal Avron (LINKIN PARK, WEEZER, FALL OUT BOY).

"Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice" is HIM's seventh studio album and the follow-up to 2007's "Venus Doom", which debuted at No. 12 in the U.S. and was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Boxed/Special Limited Edition Packaging". In 2007, HIM, which is Ville Valo (vocals),Mige (bass),Linde (guitar),Burton (keyboards),and Gas (drums),supported METALLICA in Europe before joining the LINKIN PARK-headlined Projekt Revolution tour across America, and headlined its own U.S. theater tour. The band's 2005 album, "Dark Light", has the distinction of being the first album by a Finnish band to be certified gold in the U.S.

"Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice" track listing:

01. In Venere Veritas
02. Scared To Death
03. Heartkiller
04. Dying Song
05. Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)
06. Love, The Hardest Way
07. Katherine Wheel
08. In The Arms Of Rain
09. Ode To Solitude
10. Shatter Me With Hope
11. Acoustic Funeral (For Love In Limbo)
12. Like St. Valentine
13. The Foreboding Sense Of Impending Happiness

The "Heartkiller" video can be viewed below.

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