HIM Memoriam 1991-2017 / Ville Valo

[lego 44,165]

I found missing part of old radio interview with Jussi69, so I just now managed to cut out  the music (got copyright warning again by someone named SISTER). 

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Ville Valo interview @radiorock.fi translation November 2012

05.11.

Jussi: The ambassador of love, Ville Hermanni Valo, what an honor.

Ville: I thought it was you! The ambassador, I thought I’m your personal assistant when you have time for it.

Jussi: Yeah but long time no see and this really is an honor. You haven’t really talked anywhere much.

Ville: Yes, it’s an honor for me too, we haven’t seen in such a long time. You’ve been busy with your stuff and I’ve been busy with my stuff and that’s how it is sometimes; we can’t just hang out and talk ****, you got to work sometime too.

Jussi: Right, right. You have 2 things you promote which are the dusty past

Ville: Come on! Dusty? *laughs*

Jussi: Okay but let’s talk about the past. What’s different in your head now than let’s say before RR

Ville: surprisingly I’m just as nervous about the promo and new album than back then and you know what happened with gas, so after a long break you kind of have to learn everything from the start again, I don’t have the smart one liners anymore, it’s not like it used to be

Jussi: so it’s not a routine? You haven’t turned into a robot?

Ville: unfortunately not *laughs*

Jussi: so 8 months but gas is fine now right?

Ville: yes and it’s also psychosomatic, think about it yourself, if your arms would break and you’d have to tell the guys to wait for you. it’s getting to you when the doctor says you have to wait and then wait some more and as a band we had to think why are we doing this, does it make any sense to do this and we decided that yes it makes sense to dot his

Jussi: so that’s what’s different, you probably didn’t think those things back in RR era, everything was new and exciting

Ville: yeah right, then we just went on and didn’t look back
*break*

Ville: so I went to buy socks to some market and they played join me so it was a bit suspicious but

Jussi: I danced a horrible techno remix of join me in some club in Bratislava

Ville: lovely, lovely. It was snowing and I looked outside and saw this girl talking to phone on my backyard, I asked what the hell are you doing here and she said I’m talking to you and I said no you’re not I’m here and I don’t have a phone in my hand
*break*

Jussi: what else you do than play guitar and write songs, everyone’s interested, really, do you sit at some curtains closed and write your love songs, do you do anything else, is there life outside HIM

ville: of course there is, I don’t know how to put this but HIM is my life, its involved in everything, you don’t have to take it off, it’s not like my day time job, you know when you do music its 24/7, but yeah I take baths and kiss and listen to rock

Jussi: as a HIM fan I don’t remember any song that doesn’t tell about love

Ville: well we had Kiss of Dawn, it’s kind of a love song but it really tells about a person who ended his life.

Jussi: okay so 1 song

Ville: of the 60 songs, but I feel like there’s no better subject to make a song that about relationships, it’s the only thing that moves, I’m not a fan of politic music or some violent horror music like cannibal corpse, its humour and its funny but I don’t want to spend my time writing songs about rotten corpses, it’s not interesting to me

Jussi: now that were in the subject, have you had an inspiration to write love songs

Ville: I don’t know what you want with that question but

Jussi: are you happy or are you wasting away (? don’t know if that’s the right word) or in what kind of feeling you have while you’re doing new songs

Ville: I’m happily wasting away, I think that if you do music you got to have a conflict between you and something, if everything is really well you enjoy the situation, its important when you create something, you know when you’re miserable but there light at the end of the tunnel, it makes the drumming so much better

Jussi: yeah you’re right, can you do songs when you’re happy or have you ever been happy? Has everything been easy for you?

Ville: oh you ask so big things

Jussi: but this is so rare when we can talk so let’s talk about this now and then we can talk about let’s say boobs

Ville: like in Donald duck back in the day, the one who has luck and happiness should hide it(its a saying), but there’s happiness and then there’s satisfaction, they are different things, it’s not just one word that says it all, but you always want more whatever it is and you always find something you can be better inThis is tricky; you’re in a philosophical mood and tricky questions

Jussi: *laughs* I’ve never heard anyone say that I’m philosophical

Ville: well this is the first time

06.11.

jussi: back in business, full of energy, did you get stressed right away like oh ****ing hell, record labels look at the promo schedules and now you should start touring and Seppo’s nagging that you haven’t been to Brazil yet

Ville:*laughs* have you spoken with Seppo? that sounded just like him, but yeah we’re doing a new album, it’s not completely finished, but isn’t the most important thing that we’re doing the album and if there are some promo stuff then that’s next week

jussi: I was kind of mirroring myself here, when a new album comes out I’m excited about it and it feels great but at the same time you have a zillion emails and you’ll notice that the next free day is in December 2014 and then you’re like ****ing hell I can’t do this

Ville: we have exactly the same schedules, pdf files fly around. You have a record label but we don’t even have that yet, we make the album by ourselves and then see and then we see who likes it

Jussi: so this is where we are now, you pay it for yourself, sounds exciting

Ville: well you know what it’s like, lovely a&r’s (?) are lovely when they have good opinions and can help you but it’s not necessary I believe

Jussi: in this room we have 2 persons who do music and only one thing separates us, only the other one has written a song called Join me and a few others so the negotiations with the a&r got to be not at all stressful, I don’t think they will come to you and tell you how to make a hit

Ville: I don’t like fighting at all, if someone comes to tell me how I should do things i’ll look his credits and think about how much value it has

Jussi: has anyone told you in let’s say during the last 10 years?

Ville: yeah sure but they are opinions and you can take some inspiration to yourself of it, Asko Kallonen is a good example, we’re close and sometimes almost fighting, but asko is a good guy cause he’s always honest about how he feels so you can’t really blame him for it, you can only say that asko I don’t want to do this teddy bear so go home and don’t talk to me anymore *laughs*

Jussi: yeah asko has a passion for music or then he lies and acts very well but I believe

Ville: asko is lovely and I’ve been in contact with many foreigners and if you have constructive critic it’s never a bad thing, if there are 5000 words that are bullshit and a few good lines then take the good ones and use it to make things better, the band and the producer don’t necessary see the bad things when they do an album for a long time and only see the one way how to do it, then it’s a good if an outsider comments it, girlfriends haven’t given negative comments though

Jussi:*laughs* not from girlfriends! I know some girls who like this next song and if you ask me I don’t remember if anyone has ever written a more beautiful love song than this, HIM-bury me deep inside your heart

Jussi: there a dusty XX in the markets now but let’s talk about the new one

Ville:*laughs* I’m so hurt

Jussi: oh don’tI dared to say it, this time it’s easy for you to answer to the question if this is the best album cause isn’t this the best of or what is this

Ville: it’s the best example of the things we’ve done so far and an introduction to where we are going

Jussi: I was asking about that, for me the most different albums from each other are Venus doom and Screamworks

ville: okay I see your point there, Venus doom was very organic and it had long things, Sabbath and 70’s stuff and Screamworks was more to the point, but in the end if you listen to the songs next to each other they have the same core in them, the melancholic thing and the voice doesn’t change and Linde’s guitars don’t change, the personality comes through anyway, the sound of the band that has been there from the start

Jussi: HIM has always sounded like HIM

Ville: and that’s good

Jussi: well

Ville: yeah well *laughs* we have tried other stuff too

Jussi: I was just going to add that nowadays there are many bands that almost sound like HIM, is it an honor or does it ever piss you off, I remember few years ago Bam had googled some band (sorry I don’t get the name, its Italian?) And you were watching it over Bams shoulder and asked “is that me?”

Ville: is it the Italian band?

Jussi: the singer is Italian, who looks like ville valo more than you and sometimes sounds more like ville than you

Ville: okay good then we can soon have 3 HIMs touring at the same time, but it’s kind of a good question, it’s a passion without you can’t live, some people do music for the music, some for the money, some for the mathematics of it, but if it’s the only way you can breathe things like that don’t interest you, it’s nice if you can inspire others but it doesn’t take anything away of you and you always have to remember to admire Sabbath, type o negativethey are really important to us and we grew up with them, you had more the glittery stuff, but you know what I mean

Jussi: is that still your answer if I ask what music inspires you in 2012? Do you listen to Sabbath every week at home? I don’t believe it, what’s the latest thing you’ve been excited about?

Ville: usually I listen to melodic music, in the spring when we started to do music I listened a lot of electronic music, I listened to Huoratron, the latest album which is wonderful, not very melancholic though, then I’m excited about a band from Canada called the Grimes, a young girl who doesI don’t know what to call it, it’s kind of like electro pop but really artistic and weird and then I like a band called (sorry didn’t get the name) from new York but they hang a lot in Berlin, there’s a girl who has a great voice, grace jones vibe in it and then there’s a guy with a synthesizer on stage, the album is fantastic, I usually try to listen to stuff that’s different, Sabbath doesn’t disappear anywhere, it has left its mark and I can’t get rid of it, I don’t have to listen to it all the time
Jussi: at night when you go home play paranoid

 

07.11.

Jussi: you always talk about books, about ug stuff and about art, no matter if its Tuomari Nurmios music or Mukkas books and then you add to the same sentence that you want to do a Slippery when wet type album that sells zillions. You can’t get away with liking both of that stuff at the same time

Ville: now you got the point of everything, you found my strategy *laughs*

Jussi: I haven’t read Mukka's books

Ville: I haven’t read them all either, you know it’s about what you get inspired by, what makes you see the world in a different way, to see some color in a new way, I love color codes and the names of colors and the world is full of stuff you can learn. It’s not about trying to be very smart, it’s about keeping your eyes and ears open, I can’t say I know everything about everything but I know pretty much of some things

Jussi: I wanted to talk about this cause usually artistically well made and done can’t sell well and be commercial at the same time, at least that’s what critics say, shortly said, everything that sells is ****. Is it important to you that the album sells and makes people go crazy, it must matter right?

Ville: it has two sides, like Andrew Eldritch said its more important that the album touches deeply a few people than a lot of people in a shallow way, that’s a good excuse

Jussi: that’s a good line to quote at interviews

Ville: yeah like I just did, but I believe that after we’ve done a song and recorded it, we can’t know what’s going to happen with it, we try our best and. you rather play to 10 000 people than to one person, we’re both rockers and its part of what we grew up with, it’s an important piece of it all, and the better it goes the better it is. but then you come to the point when it is time to make compromises, if you start to think you got to wear pink sneakers to sell 50 records more, if you start to play that game it’s a never ending road, no-one has answers to that system, it’s just better to trust to your own intuition and just go on

Jussi: well you’ve done this for 20 years so I don’t think anyone can say that the pink sneakers are in your CV

Ville: if I’d put on pink sneakers now, what would happen?

Jussi: I want to tell this before I ask your experience. During the last month I was in Greece in a 5 star bath-hotel and I was the only customer at the bar and every night they played Summer Wine

Ville: Is it the place with a really great terrace?

Jussi: no it was santorini (?) holiday island

Ville: okay I thought if it’s the same place with the owner I know

Jussi: okay well it wasn’t

Ville:*laughs*

Jussi: summer wine was played there and last week I was in New Orleans penthouse club where strippers do what they do

Ville: when have you been to New Orleans?

Jussi: last week

Ville: lovely, I really miss that place it’s so great

Jussi: well anyway, hip-hop was playing load and girls take their clothes off and then dj plays Wicked Game, I thought that’s an achievement, isn’t it? It’s great and your wicked game of course

Ville: it would have been achievement if it was the original too *laughs*

Jussi: when was the last time you’ve been to some place and heard HIM and thought wow?

Ville: uhmmm last night, I got a few mixes from Tim Palmer from the new songs

Jussi: so on your laptop

Ville: huh?

Jussi: sorry, go on

Ville: I listened to them and it was like wow, I haven’t had those goose bumps, tears in eyes, yes! feelings, it’s so great after all the hassle that something like that happens, but we’ve had all crazy stuff, like the summer wine you mentioned, it was a surprise, nobody knew it was going to be anything, and it’s not HIM, I just went to sing a song in Hamburg, if I remember right it was my idea to pick that song, I thought it’s a good song, let’s do that and after that a few German people have taken credits about it but I don’t care, but anyway. You go to buy socks and then they play Join me, its suspicious

Jussi: I’ve also danced a really bad techno remix about join me in some club in Bratislava

Ville: lovely, lovely

Jussi:*mimics join me*

Ville: yeah I’ve heard a couple of those, it’s kind of cool, and it’s like here in Finland and in Germany its join me and then we’ve had the luck that for example in US its rip out the wings of a butterfly and then buried alive by love in UK, we’re really lucky that different songs have succeeded in different places. Of course you think about if you got to go to the piano again *laughs*

Jussi: but that’s great, different welcome in different places. Can you compare countries and let’s say media? do they ask anywhere else than in Finland about how much you earn, how much you pay taxes and who’s your girlfriend

Ville: well actually nobody has asked and my girlfriend is hurt that no-one has asked about her

Jussi: don’t lie *laughs*

Ville: they haven’t, people are being really correct, it’s been a long time so maybe people have realized that my own things are my own and music is music and that’s difficult but no, no differences between countries, let’s say some German publications can be a bit more vulgar than others, like you know, but that goes with the territory

Jussi:*plays Wicked game*

08.11.

Jussi: Now that we talk about by-products (not sure if that’s the right word for it), your life is fantastic, great, glamorous and a story of success and everything is wonderful. What do you think when you wake up in the morning to take a piss, you hear rustling in the corners of your house and someone is filming you from the mailbox to put the video on youtube? How the hell do you do it?

Ville: I’ll shout at them that they have a wrong address, Jussi is living that way. *laughs*

Jussi: But isn’t that just freaky? Those people are your fans, so what can you say here to those people who love you and to those few ones who have flipped and are standing on your yard?

Ville: You know if someone has flipped they usually don’t understand that themselves. It isn’t nice that people come to break your privacy and you got to call to the police and they break your windows and stuff like that that has happened. It’s not nice but you got to remember that the people who do that kind of stuff aren’t healthy in their soul or mind or however you want to put it. It’s hard to bully someone or be mean to someone who doesn’t understand that everything isn’t okay. And who am I to say that “everything isn’t okay with you” to someone. But it hasn’t been that bad, I can take care of myself, I’m not that small even though I’m a stick like this. But bullying the girlfriends, that people come to tell that they know this and that, I think that’s not nice, it’s not necessary. If we do music it’s nice to have your own home and own peace and possibly own lover, isn’t it your own thing.

Jussi: Right, right.

Ville: It’s like if you sleep with someone then all of a sudden your music is ****, it’s kind of suspicious, like your band sounded so much better before I knew you’ve slept with her, you know, like these absurd things that make no sense at all.

Jussi: But it gets to different dimensions with you. I’ve asked you as a friend 10 years ago, when I was really confused when one freak was going a bit nuts, and you have them half of the world, in every corner. If I can tell to the listeners the first time I went to your house 10 years ago, all your windows were covered in black plastic bags because your neighbours were zooming you with their binoculars, the next home, the housing cooperative saw the fire escape ladders off so that people couldn’t climb up and now you live in a ****ing castle. *laughs*

Ville: It’s a tower.

Jussi: But you’re handling it quite well, don’t you ever have a feeling like this is enough and I’m done with this ****?

Ville: I’m done with what?

Jussi: that you’re done with these kind of things, that people come to watch you with binoculars from your mail box. Ville: If you think about the good things that come from this, the libra goes to that end that you want to keep on doing it.

Jussi: okay.

Ville: One thing was really unpleasant; I think it was a year ago, someone, I don’t know who, I don’t do this facebook thing myself or any social media, but someone had convinced himself to be me so well, That one from South America, one from South Africa, couple of girls from East Europe everyone came to my home door to knock and tell me that we have a relationship. I was thinking that okay one person, something is wrong but then the same things happened over and over. One time during the winter, I went outside and there was a lot of snow and I was thinking who the hell is on my yard with a flashlight, it was a girl who was talking to her cell, I was like “what the **** are you doing here?” The girl said she’s talking with me on the phone. I said “You’re not talking with me, as you can see I don’t have a phone with me.” So there was someone who claimed to be me and told them that it would be romantic if you’d come to my house at 3 am and climb over the back door or something. And the thing is, the ladies don’t piss me off at all, I just think it’s really mean that someone can take advantage of people like that, play with their feelings or how you want to put it. That was one of the weirdest things, the facebook something I don’t know, it was just too bad. And I thought the girls were really great, it took me some time and I met some of them to explain I haven’t wrote them anything cause I’m not on facebook, they didn’t believe me at first and started to cry and got mad and went off. Then three of them one of them started to tell me that I’ve sent her this and this email and I was like okay, but I don’t know anything about this and I’m really sorry but yeah it was pretty bad.

Jussi: Plus that these people have spared half of their year’s salary to get to Finland.
Ville: and the point is, those people seemed to be very lovely, the girls were really cute, it just hurt me to see that someone had fooled them like that and they didn’t understand it themselves. I just said that unfortunately it’s not true and I can’t do anything about it, you know, all kind of nonsense like that.

*break*

Jussi: The world has changed a lot after you started your career. There wasn’t any social media

Ville: Look at you then!

Jussi: Try not to talk about me here okay? Me, myself and I, welcome to the Jussi show Okay but when you did your first interviews you were on the cover of a magazine and then people waited for a month for the next magazine, right? There wasn’t any internet when greatest love songs came out.

Ville: Yeah and when you think about yourself too, when we started, we recorded our first things on tape, there wasn’t any pro tools or web or even cell phones, remember that. I remember when I lived in pietarinkatu back in the day, I got my first cheap Siemens cell phone, think it was ‘98. Things have changed a lot after that

Jussi: As a music fan, do you think it’s great to follow what e.g. Black Sabbath is doing, like read their updates every day.

Ville: No, I’m pretty much against all that myself.

Jussi: Yeah, I’m with you there.

Ville: I’d rather have this pigeon thing, like write something on a paper and attach it to their leg and fly them off to somewhere.

Jussi: There’s no magic in being a rock star anymore.

Ville: If think about making an album, it takes away the mystique. When everything is there for everyone all the time, it’s not interesting anymore. I have never liked all these what we talked about, like twitter and stuff. They work fantastic if you want to have a connection with your old school mates that you last saw 20 years ago, I’ve understood it’s a brilliant way to do that but no, it’s not my cup of tea.

Jussi: Here are talking the old uncles, Valo and 69. *laughs*

Ville: Yeah, yeah. *laughs too*

Jussi: But I think record labels and thankful and glad about it.

Ville: But you got to remember, it’s the over saturation. The places in the record company are very windy (people come and go) and everyone is in a hurry to get results fast. What also means nobody has time to wait for stuff or make stuff better, then it gets to that, we got to do that and we got to get this out now. I think those things are in conflict, let the record label people think what they want.

09.11.

Jussi: I’ve played HIM pretty much like I’ve promised; I have picked the songs myself, sometimes Ville. Let’s put Ville in a bad place and see what he wants to play himself

Jussi: XX what’s the song of all you’ve ever done you’re most proud of today?

Ville: ****ing hell what a question, I’m going to meet the guys and play them the new song from the new album Tears on tape, it’s the song I’m most pleased with today, unfortunately it’s not on the best of album, its out next year. But like you know it’s not about songs, it’s about the time you’ve been living, who you’ve met, who you’ve been hanging out with, have you performed the song somewhere or made a video of it that has just stayed in your memory. I like the song Gone with the sin, it’s a nice song

Jussi: what time did we live back then? Then was soda, Freda and Hamburg, those are the things that come to my mind first

Ville: it was a big hassle back then but that’s alright, if you think about the song Gone with the sin, we were young and nobody knew where should be, but we did a ****ing great video where I walk through old English graveyards, I love the nature in England, they have different kind of trees than here

Jussi: for the listeners, you can watch the video to see to who’s tomb ville brings flowers

Ville: that too *laughs*

Jussi: we’ll keep this as a secret and you can go watch it from YouTube, let’s play Gone with the sin, great song and great choice

Jussi: I just opened my own facebook, just after we dissed the social media, the question what you want to ask from ville

Ville: you didn’t diss it and I don’t diss it, I’m just saying it’s not a place for me cause it’s not for what I want to do

Jussi: right, your fans ask a lot, maybe cause it’s my facebook, that when are we going to do a tour together, Russians ask it and Brazilians ask it

Ville: so when we do a tour together

Jussi: triple X, so you haven’t been to Brazil

Ville: not yet, have you?

jussi: yeah we have, (ville: yeaaah) we got there with a help from others cause we did the tour with the scorpions and the nightwish, (ville: alright, alright) the crowd was a bit bigger than what it would have been if it was just our band, (ville: ok, ok) in sao paolo 128,000 people, (ville: lovely) it was awesome, it was a few years ago. You would love it in Rio

Ville: I’ve heard a lot of good about the place, Mexico city is the closest place to Brazil we’ve been to, but we haven’t had the time, you know when it’s really busy you just don’t make it, I also believe that if you do less touring its better than if you do so much that the band get tired

Jussi: that’s a good point

Ville: many don’t realize it; they keep on going until they burn out. And if you tour too much if people see you 3 times in a year they get tired, you can’t renew yourself that fast

Jussi: let’s go to America together then

Ville: hell, let’s go on tour to (can’t hear the country), but touring is nice. And one thing would be nice if we would get an opportunity, when have you been to east neighbour last time?

Jussi: can’t remember what was the last time

Ville: there are many places, we could go to Minsk and all the way to Vladivostok, it would be cool to go there together

Jussi: Have you always had a good time when you’ve been visiting our east neighbor?

Ville: I’ve had good time or too good time *laughs* I’ve had a good feeling when I’ve been there

Jussi: We’re going there soon, let’s go there together, there are many from there to the listeners just so you know, in a few hours I have 10cm pile of A4 papers of questions for you ville, most of them are asking when are you coming here, quit smoking and what type of chocolate you like. Do you still smoke?

Ville: yeah I smoke, I have quit many times, then I started again then I smoke little less or little more, it’s okay at the moment, I’ve been growing up with James dean so that’s where the cancer rolls come from, but no it’s not good to smoke and about chocolate I don’t know I don’t eat chocolateanymore

Jussi: anymore?

Ville: I was a complete chocolate freak back then when I quit smoking

Jussi: now that we still play the old music

Ville: dusty

Jussi: yeah, when the new album will be out and when will you tour?

ville: I hope that everything goes so well thatthe album is called Tears on tape, we are working on the cover art at the moment, we start mixing at the end of November, mastering in the middle of December and the whole show is done before new year which means that then we try to find some label that suits us and cares about us enough and hopefully we get the album out in Feb.-march latest in April

Jussi: that’s ****ing fast, or I don’t know when you started

Ville: year -76

Jussi:-76, since 76, and helldone, how many days? Four days?

Ville: four days

Jussi: who else is there or is it a secret?

Ville: No there will be Face of god, our neighbor from the rehearsal place, then there’s Final Assault, skate-hardcore-punk type of thing, familiar stuff too and then there’s Jericho Fuzz and Sleep of Monsters with Pätkä, aka (something?) aka SOM, they are coming there..If I remember right in the eve of new years, it’s a good variation of everything; it’s nice to be at the backstage when there are familiar faces and talks

Jussi: sounds very much like Helldone

Ville: let’s hope for the best

Jussi: we are waiting for that and like I said it was an honour to get you here as a guest

Ville: No, no thank you yourself, this is cool butoh well

Jussi: oh well?

Ville: lets gossip without the microphones at some point, this was fantastic (not sure if its ville but) *claps hands*

Jussi: thanks, thanks; this is jussi 69 and ville turned up at some points too

Ville:*laughs*

Jussi: Bye Bye!

 

 

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[lego 44,165]

Lacrimas Profundere

@Sister that's the Italian band they were talking about! Ville asked is that me? 

 

And remember that pressed Tool fan on Twitter, he was comparing them. 

[Sister 9,907]

3 hours ago, lego said:

Jussi: what else you do than play guitar and write songs, everyone’s interested, really, do you sit at some curtains closed and write your love songs, do you do anything else, is there life outside HIM

ville: of course there is, I don’t know how to put this but HIM is my life, its involved in everything, you don’t have to take it off, it’s not like my day time job, you know when you do music its 24/7, but yeah I take baths and kiss and listen to rock

^ I like this answer. lol    Kissing~

@lego Wow! I see it was such a long transcript to write out, much Thanks and Love. Great and down to earth talk and joyous and cute too, with Jussi69.  I like that Ville is proud of Gone With the Sin and is so excited, like having your first work discovered, about turning over a new album. Ville is very insightful here, in his talk about what is on his mind as he works on the new stuff and gets ready for the promo and movement to carry the album out.

That is funny about the "imitation HIM" and that god awful butt hurt Tool "tool" on twitter. But, laugh at that guy, lol.

Whatever~

I will go and look into that band, just for the laughs.

AND who is this SISTER blocking you out by copyright???!!!!

Thank You again lovey x

[Sister 9,907]

3 hours ago, lego said:

Jussi: I wanted to talk about this cause usually artistically well made and done can’t sell well and be commercial at the same time, at least that’s what critics say, shortly said, everything that sells is ****. Is it important to you that the album sells and makes people go crazy, it must matter right?

Ville: it has two sides, like Andrew Eldritch said its more important that the album touches deeply a few people than a lot of people in a shallow way, that’s a good excuse

Jussi: that’s a good line to quote at interviews

^ Yes Yes YES also

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@Sister credits go to whoever translated the whole thing back in 2012. 

I just copy pasted and edited some parts. It's one of my favorite interviews, it's so nice to hear him talk and be like this, more open. About everything. 

I can't wait for next era. 

 

I was shocked when I saw "SISTER", well not my Sister. 

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[lego 44,165]

So funny 

 

Is there any interview where he doesn't mention Black Sabbath?  

 

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Only Ville's parts of Something Diabolical

 

It's messy.

 

His voice has changed since then, I don't think he could repeat this.  

 

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S

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X

 

 

That hand sign to Linde at 0:55 to start talking

 

Ville's laughter at 1:09  he's louder than everyone, he sounds 24 again  

 

 

V should be their drummer again on next Helldone.  

 

 

@PennyroyalTea @Christina

You have to see this.  

 

[Christina 1,027]

9 minutes ago, lego said:

 

 

S

E

X

 

 

That hand sign to Linde at 0:55 to start talking

 

Ville's laughter at 1:09  he's louder than everyone, he sounds 24 again  

 

 

V should be their drummer again on next Helldone.  

 

 

@PennyroyalTea @Christina

You have to see this.  

 

He's got so much energy and he looks like he's having a blast playing those drums! He's so cuteee

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New Finnish tour date

 

https://www.tuuri.fi/viihdy/tapahtumakalenteri/360-miljoona-rock-2017

 

 

 

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What are these?! 

@Sister

 

 

 

http://hisinfernalmajestyitaly.forumfree.it/m/?t=70974284

 

 

when did this happen?  

 

[Sister 9,907]

6 hours ago, lego said:

What are these?! 

@Sister

 

 

 

http://hisinfernalmajestyitaly.forumfree.it/m/?t=70974284

 

 

when did this happen?  

 

LOL

That is so fake and funny, if you listen to what they are.

[lego 44,165]

7 hours ago, Sister said:

LOL

That is so fake and funny, if you listen to what they are.

 

 

What do you mean fake, I can hear Ville's backing vocals in some parts? 

I'm thinking it's very old, like 2001, not sure. 

 

Yes, 2001 

https://fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Fifteen 

 

mess it's some unknown Finnish band 

[Sister 9,907]

3 hours ago, lego said:

 

 

What do you mean fake, I can hear Ville's backing vocals in some parts? 

I'm thinking it's very old, like 2001, not sure. 

 

Yes, 2001 

https://fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Fifteen 

 

mess it's some unknown Finnish band 

Yes! I remember seeing those come up some place, a while ago and I thought they were fake, since there isn't anything about these songs anywhere. I don't remember how I came upon them though. I have always loved that song, Season Of The Witch.