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Few people do droll self-deprecation quite like Ville Valo. HIM may have notched up more than eight million sales since their inception in Helsinki 21 years ago, becoming Finland’s biggest ever musical export in the process, but their frontman can burst the bubble of pomposity and pretension – not least his own – with a well-aimed one-liner. The majestic Ville is on prime form. Usp Nf Free Download here.

He looks well-kept and refreshed, like a character from a Byron poem. His faultless English would put many native speakers to shame, and he’s both engaging and candid enough to talk about everything from his teenage dabblings with the occult, to working in the sex shop owned by his dad, to his own personal low point around the time of 2007’s Venus Doom album. Given what Ville calls “the rollercoaster ride” that has been their career, there is, on so many levels, a hell of a lot to talk about. Free Download Hackshield Pro For Online Game here.

“Do your worst,” he says, with a grin. Your last release, Tears On Tape was HIM’s eighth album. Does it get any easier? No, it gets tougher. [Laughs] As we grow older, there are a lot of sleepless nights. No, I guess you have to challenge yourself, pretend that you’re reinventing the wheel. That’s what rock’n’roll is about, right?

Being an egocentric bastard. How do you know when it’s time to make a new album?

Do you wake up one morning and go, “Right, let’s do it!” No, it’s the debit card bills. And it’s not looking good right now. We can’t afford to take taxis any more, I couldn’t afford to change the strings on my acoustic guitar. That’s one of the reasons. But no, it’s an urge. A very primal and sexual urge. At least on an intellectual level.

Care to explain the album title? Tears On Tape was one of the first songs I wrote for the album. And obviously, it’s a simple title: it’s easy to remember, it’s very HIM But the honest, heartfelt answer is that it’s referring to the tears that our idols shed – the Ozzys and the Robert Plants, the people who put their emotions on tape back in the day, creating pieces of art that have kept us going all these years.

It’s about the healing power of hard rocking music. That’s what it means to me. And it sounds better than Tears On CD. Or Tears On Digital Ones And Zeros. Is there a theme or a concept to the album? Lyrically, I’m super-slow and I’m always stressed out, so I write all the lyrics in a week.