HIM's Venus Doom Album Tracks Exclusive On BWandBK

Finnish goth metallers H.I.M. are gearing up for the September 18th release of their sixth studio album, Venus Doom. The album was recorded at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California with producer/mixer Tim Palmer (TIN MACHINE, THE CURE, THE HOUSE OF LOVE, NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN).

"I felt that we needed a lot less keyboards and there was just going to be more punching to the face type of thing," frontman Ville Valo says, referring to the differences between Venus Doom and the band's 2005 album, Dark Light. "The whole vibe seems fresh cause the direction we had with the last album we couldn't go further. So the album sonically is a bit more sparse. That's the direction we're heading; heavier, doomier, and gloomier, and it's great to tour that kind of stuff."

"In this one we have a bit longer songs so arrangement-wise there's more differences within the song," Valo says. "We wanted that contrast, having really nice beautiful melodies and then having that really crunchy guitar thing in there; so to have the balance between the right and wrong so to speak."

"There are a couple of tunes that are too close to me personally, I can't talk about, so it's better to leave that stuff open for interpretation," he says. "Nowadays I don't tend to write songs of just one story, there's usually three of them going on at the same time. And it's good to leave people pondering, because my story is as wrong or right as their story. If you find something that fits your life or situation you're in, that makes it true."


BW&BK is exclusively streaming each song from Venus Doom below:

'Venus Doom'
'Love In Cold Blood'
'Passions Killing Floor'
'The Kiss of Dawn'
'Sleepwalking Past Hope'
'Dead Lovers Lane'
'Song Or Suicide'
'Bleed Well'
'Cyanide Sun'