I SUPPORT H.I.M.

hello laddies and gents we're H.I.M a mixture Ville Valo: vocals, Burton Emmerson: keyboards,guitar, Gas Lipstick: drums, Mige Amour: bass, and Linde: guitar if you would like to know more about us here is our story. In the beginning there was three fellows who wanted to spit out their ideas in the musical way. Guys are very good friends since their childhood.They were Ville Hermanni Valo, Mikko Lindström (known as Linde) and Mikko Paananen (known as Mige). In the start Ville plays bass guitar, but because also Mige plays it -Ville has started to sing. Before HIM, Ville plays bass in the progressive band called Donits-Osmo Experience with persons (Joel Melasniemi and Antti Lehtinen) that lately played in Ultra Bra, Scandinavian Music Group and Don Huonot. By the way, Joel is cousin of Antto who would have later been keyboard player in HIM. Ville made some demos and played them to Mige who rapidly enchanted on them. They wanted guitarist to their new band and because they know Linde already, they only need a drummer to their band. Ville's good friend Suho (the singer of Jimsonweed) gave the phone number of Pätkä (real name:Juhana Rantala) to Ville and the band is ready. Pätkä played earlier in the grungeband called Slumgudgeon from Lappeenranta. Rest of the band was making jokes from Pätkä's origin (Lappenranta is smaller town in the eastern Finland). First gig was in Teatro (R.I.P. in 2003) in Helsinki on december 19th 1995 (Mige's birthday). Mige worked in Teatro and his brother was shareholder of Teatro, so they were booked to play there. HIM was supporter of Kauko Röyhkä and because Kauko was earlier spoke about his satanic view of the world, the crowd thinks that His Infernal Majesty is a new nickname for Kauko. The crowd screamed His Infernal Majesty to the stage as they thought that means Kauko and when the 'real' His Infernal Majesty walks to spotlight, the crowd went disappointed and confused. 'What the fuck is that?' they wondered. HIM gets no positive reactions, band's music is not what crowd was came to hear about and the plugs made by Mige exploded continually and technical side of the band was not working. After that they started public performances which was actually coverversion shows, because they've got not enough own material to play. They played Rauli Badding Somerjoki, Dingo, WASP, Kiss, Depeche Mode,Type O Negative and all between them. The second gig was also in Teatro and there was Burton on keyboards. Burton was old friend of Mige and because they needed a keyboardplayer to their Type O Negative-covergig, so Burton came in. That was a night when Apocalyptica played their first gig ever. Teatro was sold-out and the crowd went nuts in the concert. It took finally 7 years that Burton comes and takes permanent place in HIM... Ville imagined that the music that he wants to play sounds like Dimmu Borgir meets Depeche Mode in David Lynch movie. thanks to him-room666