¤ Before we get started, here are two more bootlegs. Check out the full collection here.

YleX Pop VCD (2004) <-- The 69 Eyes

Madrid CD (2.17.04) <-- HIM

¤ Forum members Taran and Jamie have set up a new HIM DC++ hub for all you HIM fans. It's a good place to share media and talk about anything with other HIM fans. Be advised, leechers are not welcomed. To find out more about it, click here.

¤ According to Kerrang, the tracklist for Dark Light is:

Drunk On Shadows
The Face of God
Under The Rose
Dark Light
Vampire Heart
Killing Loneliness
Play Dead
Rip Out The Wings of a Butterfly
Behind the Crimson Door
In the Nightside of Eden

¤ Ville has designed a limited edition can for Coke Light. The cans will be given out on the streets in Nordic countries this Summer. You can check out the can here.

Offer: I must own one! I'd pay some good money for it, so if you get some and want to sell one,

¤ Last, but certainly not least: The winner of the May/June contest for the sealed HER CD is Corey Scott. Congratulations to him, and thank you to everyone who donated to the site, your contributions did not go unnoticed. Expect the site to move to a bigger and better server this Summer.

¤ Slowly but surely I'm getting through all the new bootlegs I have to post. Here are two more.

Tavastia CD (1.1.05)

Rock am Ring DVD (6.5.05)
*Not Finished*

¤ HIM is going to be playing a few clubs in Europe before the release of Dark Light.

August
08.29: Circus - Stockholm, Sweden

September
09.02: Zirkus Krone - Munich, Germany
09.05: Le Trabendo - Paris, France
09.08: Hamburg, Germany
09.11: Rolling Stone - Milan
09.14: Apolo - Barcelona
09.19: Shepherds Bush Empire - London
09.22: Paradiso - Amsterdam

Check with Heartagram for ticket information. Starting today, getLIVE will be running an exclusive presale to the London show for it’s members. To make sure you get tickets before they go on general sale on Tuesday 14th June. Sign up here and then all you need to do is log in from 9am (assume this is European time) for your chance to get tickets. Tickets are £19.50.

¤ From Heartagram: BE A PART OF HIM'S NEW ALBUM

HIM's new album Dark Light is coming on September 26th, but you will also be able to order a special fan edition at heartagram.com that you won't be able to buy anywhere else but on their site. This special edition will contain two bonus songs and lyrics, plus special artwork.

THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN: We'll select fan photos and include them in the actual packaging, so we need your photos now. You can send photos of yourself or your HIM tattoos. If you already submitted your tattoo in to us, you don't need to submit again.

Send in a .jpg or .gif image (please keep file sizes low) to photos@heartagram.com

Hurry - you must send in your photo by Monday, June 20th. If yours is selected, we'll let you know how to be part of this special album.

¤ Also, the first single "Killing Loneliness" will be out on August 9th. I don't know if that's worldwide or not, though. (Credit: HimforFans)

¤ Don't forget, this is your last week to enter to win a sealed copy of the HER Razorblade Romance CD.

¤ Note: Thanks in part to Rock am Ring 2005, we are experiencing a Peter North-worthy load of traffic. Please bear with us.

¤ For those that woke up early enough, you could have caught the show from a live stream. HIM played some new tracks, as promised. "Killing Loneliness" and "Vampire Heart" were played, and I am liking the way the new album is going so far.

Rock am Ring (6.5.05)
DVD to come later

Thanks to my good friend Shakes for hooking me up with this, as I was lazy and slept in this morning.

¤ The good people in the forum are all over this show, so you may be able to get yourself a copy in there. Just be nice and re-post it for others to get as well.

¤ Finally the HIM news is starting to truck along.

From Heartagram:

SECRET SHOW
HIM did a surprise show at the German fanclubs meeting at Munich's great Backstage Club Thursday night. This weekend the band is performing at Rock im Park and Rock am Ring festivals in Nurnberg and Nurburgring in Germany and then heading for the UK and Download Castle Donington festival.

The setlist:

Right Here In My Arms
The Sacrament
Wicked Game
Soul on Fire
Killing Loneliness*
Poison Girl
Buried Alive By Love
Join Me
Vampire Heart*
Your Sweet 616*
Funeral of Hearts

"Vampire Heart" is obviously a new track, as is "Killing Loneliness." "Your Sweet 616" refers to when Ville was on Radio Bam talking about a news story back in Finland about a Bible being found that is 100 years older than the Bible we use today, and in it it said that 616 is the true number of the beast. I don't know if he actually said "616" or "666," though.

¤ If you had Sirius Radio and happened to tune into Radio Bam last night (on Faction 28) you would have caught an "acoustic dick-tease" from Ville in the form of "Killing Loneliness."

If you don't like Bam, you'll hate this download. I guess I could have cut the track more, but I happen to be a fan, so fuck off. Anyway, check it out here. It should be noted that Ville's drunk, so he doesn't make it past the 2nd verse. It is what it says it is. Also, I typed up some preliminary lyrics.

Memories sharp as daggers
Pierce into the flesh of today
Suicide of love took away all that matters
And buried the remains in an unmarked grave in your heart
With the venomous kiss you gave me I'm killing loneliness
With the warmth of your arms you saved me,
I'm killing loneliness with you
I'm killing loneliness that turned my heart into a tomb
I'm killing loneliness with you
With You

Ville also played a drunk-assed cover of "Poison Heart" which I so graciously cut out for you.

Bam also played a joke song made by Migé and Burton called "Plasma Mullet."

This is a good time to say Support The Sac, cracka!

*A note about downloading the files: DO NOT try to "Save Target As" because it'll fuck up and think it's a leech. DO NOT try to use a downloading program, it'll fuck up and think it's a leech. The easiest way to do it is just to click it. You won't leave the page, you don't need to open a new window, just click and it should work.

¤ According to H-I-M666 Club, the tracklist for Dark Light is:

01. Dark Light
02. Behind The Crimson Door
03. Face Of God
04. Bound To Be Wrong
05. Killing Loneliness
06. Under The Rose
07. Forever Haunted
08. Wings Of A Butterfly
09. Night In Despair
10. Drunk On Shadows

There may or may not be a few more tracks added, but the first single should be out in August. Also, HIM plans on playing some new tracks during their Summer festivals...so if you go to the show, be sure to tape them, fuckers!

¤ In the July issue of AP (that's Alternative Press) there's a small article about Ville and the new album. It's just a blurb, but Ville claims "We're five tall guys from Scandinavia. We can beat anyone's asses. But I do find myself watching SpongeBob Squarepants and weeping a lot... I think we're like Manowar, just more in touch with our femininity."