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* {{Bishonen}}: Valo, Linde, and Burton, natch.
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*** "Sleepwalking past Hope" goes [[UpToEleven far beyond]] the original nine to bring the total up to [[ArcNumber 666]] circles, implying that the narrator is trapped in the very last circle with Lucifer himself.

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* FanService: Check out the Ville Valo tag on tumblr sometime.

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* GenreBusting: HIM's genre is very much a matter of dispute. Safe to say, it's an eclectic, if acquired, taste. The only things you can really count on are the over-the-top love metaphors; beyond that, their style is generally somewhat dark, but "rock" is the only label you can reasonably apply to their entire body of work. "Alternative rock" might work too.



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* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: HIM's genre is very much a matter of dispute. Safe to say, it's an eclectic, if acquired, taste. The only things you can really count on are the over-the-top love metaphors; beyond that, their style is generally somewhat dark, but "rock" is the only label you can reasonably apply to their entire body of work. "Alternative rock" might work too.

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* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: HIM's genre is very much a matter of dispute. Safe to say, it's an eclectic, if acquired, taste. The only things you can really count on are the over-the-top love metaphors; beyond that, their style is generally somewhat dark, but "rock" is the only label you can reasonably apply to their entire body of work. "Alternative rock" might work too.
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* AlliterativeTitle: ''Razorblade Romance''.
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* BaldOfAwesome: Gas Lipstick.
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* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Generally around a 5 or 6, though they fit onto many levels at different times. Best examples could be Screamworks and Deep Shadows that are somewhere between 2 and 4 and Venus Doom which is generally around 7 and 8. Some live moments could be considered to be as high as 9.
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* BadassBeard: Ville Valo circa 2007-2008 rocked a devilish beard Jack Sparrow would have been proud of. He usually teamed it up with heavy-duty guy-liner, further increasing comparisons with Johnny Depp.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "It's All Tears" contains the lyrics "I'll violate you in the most sensual way". Pretty self-explanatory.
** The radar [[AvertedTrope probably exploded]] during the live version on their Digital Versatile Doom recording when Ville adds the following to the end: 'Well I'm back / I got a cock made outta platinum'...
*** This is probably because the album version ends in a glitchy way, to make the listener think the CD is damaged.[[note]]It worked so well people actually ''returned the album'' to record stores thinking they bought a bad copy.[[/note]] That would be pretty hard to replicate in a live setting. This raunchy bit is a piece of Music/MonsterMagnet's "Wall of Fire", though Valo sings it over the rest of the group playing "TV Eye" by the Stooges.

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*** This is probably because the album version ends in a glitchy way,
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** The chorus of "Dark Light" sounds so similar to parts of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khMlcTE7lw8 Laura Palmer's Theme]]" from ''Series/TwinPeaks'' that it's hard to mistake for anything but an intentional homage.
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* RockMeAsmodeus: Relax, they're not Satanists. The only reason they drop 666 so often in their lyrics is due to a fascination with the occult, which is very rock & roll according to them. However, they've often found themselves in a peculiar spot - MoralGuardians consider them too close to Satanism to be anything ''but'' Satanists, but ''actual'' Satanists have actually requested that the group publicly distance themselves from any actual Satanic faction since they're not part of one. They've also made homages to occult or hell-based things; see ShoutOut below.

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* NumberOfTheBeast: In case all the 666 being thrown around in this article didn't clue you in by now. Actually, this applies on two different levels: [[CaptainObvious Obviously 666 itself,]] but at least three songs were released in alternative form with the tag "616 Version". Apparently this happened after Ville learned that the number was translated differently depending on which manuscript of the Book of Revelation you had. There was also a parody "surround sound" logo on their ''Dark Light''-era stuff that read "6.16 Surreal Sound", with the Dolby logo replaced with two halves of a heart flipped to face away from each other.

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* NumberOfTheBeast: In case all the 666 being thrown around in this article didn't clue you in by now. Actually, this applies on two different levels: [[CaptainObvious Obviously 666 itself,]] itself, but at least three songs were released in alternative form with the tag "616 Version". Apparently this happened after Ville learned that the number was translated differently depending on which manuscript of the Book of Revelation you had. There was also a parody "surround sound" logo on their ''Dark Light''-era stuff that read "6.16 Surreal Sound", with the Dolby logo replaced with two halves of a heart flipped to face away from each other.

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* Cover Version: Several, including:

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* DrivenToSuicide: [[SubvertedTrope Not actually the point]] to "Join Me in Death". The song plays the trope straight if taken only at face value, but Valo reportedly said the song is more about giving up everything for the sake of loving someone, merely using death as a metaphor for how far you'd go in doing so (and with reference to ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'').

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[[SubvertedTrope Not actually the point]] to "Join Me in Death". The song plays the trope straight if taken only at face value, but Valo reportedly said the song is more about giving up everything for the sake of loving someone, merely using death as a metaphor for how far you'd go in doing so (and with reference to ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'').



* LoveMartyr: One interpretation of "The Face of God" that seems to fit.

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* LoveIsLikeReligion:
** A LoveMartyr song "The Face of God".
** In "The Sacrament", the narrator's religion is the relationship he has with his true love.
* LoveMartyr: One interpretation of "The Face of God" might not have just one meaning, but one possibility is that seems to fit.it's about being in a very one-sided relationship where you settle for being mistreated just so you can stay with the other person and still have your partner whisper all those sweet nothings into your ear. Very flowery nothings in this case, since they are Ville Valo's lyrics in this song.



* WickedHeartSymbol: Their logo is a fusion of a heart and an inverted pentagram, the latter a common occult symbol. Valo has described the heartagram as being a modern-day Yin Yang, and says that the symbol has become ubiquitous enough as to be more popular than the music it represents (probably because Bam Margera uses it since Valo gave him permission and the two are close friends).

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* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Depending on the song, they may play this straight or even outright deconstruct it. Some songs are straightforward, if flowery, lovesongs (e.g. "For You"); others feature narrators that think this way but are plainly in situations that run contrary to that expectation (e.g. "The Face of God"); and others still just deconstruct this way of thinking (e.g. "Soul on Fire"). Their use of this trope is pretty much all over the map.
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Well, they were accused by MoralGuardians, anyways. The ''real'' Satanists didn't like them because their art wasn't Satanic ''enough''. Pressured on both sides, the band changed their name to HIM out of frustration just to get rid of the devilish name. Their 1996 EP is the only thing they released under their original name.

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Well, they were accused by MoralGuardians, anyways. The ''real'' Satanists didn't like them because their art wasn't Satanic ''enough''. Pressured on both sides, the band changed their name to HIM out of frustration just to get rid of the devilish name. Their 1996 EP is the only thing they released under their original name.
name.[[note]]Even then, that ''still'' wasn't the end of it - they would have ''more'' name trouble for a completely ''different'' reason. When they began marketing themselves in the US for the first time, a Chicago act using the same name but with a lowercase ''i'' prevented the boys from Finland from using the name; they called themselves HER for awhile, and even some rare copies of ''Razorblade Romance'' contain the name, but eventually both parties settled, allowing both acts to use the same name worldwide.[[/note]]
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* AfterTheEnd: By the very end, the "Wings of a Butterfly" music video is set in this type of world. Not that the city surrounding the building looked all that good to begin with, but certainly the end was upon the world once the great flood that surrounds the tower by the video's end came down. Implicitly, this might also be the trope behind the album cover to ''Dark Light'' since the music video was based on it.
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** The cover for the "Buried Alive by Love" single more or less shows an inverted pentagram merging with a heart.
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* LoveHurts: Natch.

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* DudeLooksLikeALady: [[invoked]] REALLY played up in some media appearances, especially during the ''Razorblade Romance'' era. A European promo for "Gone with the Sin" makes Ville look ''really'' ambiguous on the cover, but even more so is the cover for "Right Here in My Arms". The "ice version" of the music video for "Join Me in Death" does its damnedest to cause ViewerGenderConfusion. Safe to say when he was younger, Ville could REALLY pull this off, at least with the usual photo tricks, and it was mostly used to promote ''Razorblade Romance''. He started moving towards a more masculine image beginning with ''Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights'', and continued until comparisons with Johnny Depp were all but inevitable.



* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Lead singer Ville Valo is often photographed indulging in public displays of affection with various men. Doesn't help that he's rumored to be bisexual.

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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Lead singer Ville Valo is often photographed indulging in public displays of affection with various men. Doesn't help that he's rumored to be bisexual.bisexual, and DudeLooksLikeALady (see above) hasn't helped matters either.
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* SequelSong: "Don't Close Your Heart" to "Join Me in Death"; the former is sung by someone trying to save whoever sang the latter.
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** Skip a few records, and they FINALLY play it straight on both ''Dark Light'' and ''Venus Doom''...

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** Skip a few records, and they FINALLY play it straight on both ''Dark Light'' Light''[[note]]which ''would'' have been called "In the Nightside of Eden" but was given its current name for commercial reasons[[/note]] and ''Venus Doom''...
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** And of course, [[IncrediblyLamePun the band have male fans as well.]]
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** Perhaps this is part of what's at play in "Endless Dark", with the bit about belonging "away from [her] gods".
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I know, this is normally a YMMV trope, but Ville himself invoked it during an interview. We'll likely get to more of these specific aspects in more Shout Outs as time goes on.

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* JustHereForGodzilla: [[invoked]] Ville's creativity isn't so much about entire subjects as it is certain ''details'' of those subjects; for instance, he isn't really a fan of everything Creator/JRRTolkien wrote, but ''is'' a big fan of the Uruk-hai.
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I don't know why I put it down there to begin with. This makes a lot more sense.


** If GreatestHits albums count, then "And Love Said No" is one too. Extra points for that album being the first ever to feature that song.

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** If GreatestHits albums count, then "And Love Said No" is one too. Extra points for that album being the first ever to feature that song.song, unlike other greatest hits records that are typically named for the artist's biggest hit so far.



* WickedHeartSymbol: Their logo is a fusion of a heart and an inverted pentagram, the latter a common occult symbol.
** Prior to adopting the heartagram, they used a heart with 666 written in the center. This was only for their debut album despite the heartagram having already been around awhile by that time; Valo later recalled that this early logo was "a bit boring". Valo has described the heartagram as being a modern-day Yin Yang, and says that the symbol has become ubiquitous enough as to be more popular than the music it represents (probably because Bam Margera uses it since Valo gave him permission and the two are close friends).

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symbol. Valo has described the heartagram as being a modern-day Yin Yang, and says that the symbol has become ubiquitous enough as to be more popular than the music it represents (probably because Bam Margera uses it since Valo gave him permission and the two are close friends).
** Prior to adopting the heartagram, they used a heart with 666 written in the center. This was only for their debut album despite the heartagram having already been around awhile by that time; Valo later recalled that this early logo was "a bit boring". Valo has described the heartagram as being a modern-day Yin Yang, and says that the symbol has become ubiquitous enough as to be more popular than the music it represents (probably because Bam Margera uses it since Valo gave him permission and the two are close friends).

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In 2000, on his way to a skateboard competition in Finland, a fellow by the name of Bam Margera happened upon the album ''Razorblade Romance'', which made him an instant HIM fan. He got to meet the band in person, becoming a close friend of theirs in the process. The association has been rather controversial, with many feeling Bam doesn't fit the image the group strive for or that he's dragging them down by associating them with ''Series/{{Jackass}}''. Like it or hate it, the friendship between Bam and Ville is so strong Bam's been allowed to use the heartagram logo for his own personal projects. Ville even shows up in ''Jackass Number Two''. [[SchmuckBait We'll let you find out where.]]



* RevolvingDoorBand: Especially in their early years, their lineup of personnel was rather fluid. Things finally settled into the form they would take for roughly a decade and a half when Burton joined on keyboards to record ''Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights'', providing the longest-lasting lineup for the group till Gas left in 2015.

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* RevolvingDoorBand: Especially in their early years, their lineup of personnel was rather fluid. Things finally settled into the form they would take for roughly a decade and a half when Burton joined on keyboards to record ''Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights'', providing the longest-lasting lineup for the group till Gas left in 2015. Even then, the newly Gas-less lineup didn't record any music.

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'''HIM''' (originally '''H'''is '''I'''nfernal '''M'''ajesty) was a Finnish rock band formed in 1991 in Helsinki, Finland. Scoring a number of top-ten hits in Europe and South America, they also broke records by being the first Finnish band to have a gold album in the United States. HIM's breakout album, "Razorblade Romance" featured a heady mix of gothic-tinged ballads and heavy, crunching guitar riffs, a genre mish-mash which proved an instant success. HIM had five of their studio albums certified platinum in Finland with "Razorblade Romance" being certified double platinum in Finland and platinum in Germany.

The bands final lineup consisted of vocalist Ville Valo, guitarist Mikko "Linde" Lindström, bassist Mikko "Migé" Paananen, Janne "Emerson Burton" Puurtinen on keyboards, and Jukka "Kosmo" Kröger. [[RevolvingDoorBand Things weren't always this way, however...]]

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'''HIM''' (originally '''H'''is '''I'''nfernal '''M'''ajesty) was a Finnish rock band formed in 1991 in Helsinki, Finland. Scoring a number of top-ten hits in Europe and South America, they also broke records by being the first Finnish band to have a gold album in the United States. HIM's breakout album, "Razorblade Romance" ''Razorblade Romance'' featured a heady mix of gothic-tinged ballads and heavy, crunching guitar riffs, a genre mish-mash which proved an instant success. HIM had five of their studio albums certified platinum in Finland with "Razorblade Romance" that album being certified double platinum in Finland and platinum in Germany.

The bands band's roots go all the way back to 1991 when Ville Valo and Mikko "Migé" Paananen founded it as His Infernal Majesty. Things were on and off for awhile, then they got serious and started recording music, resulting in a few unreleased demos and 1996's ''666 Ways to Love: Prologue''. The following year, they dropped ''Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666'', and during this time they were dogged with accusations of Satanism despite the devil never actually showing up in any of their work.

Well, they were accused by MoralGuardians, anyways. The ''real'' Satanists didn't like them because their art wasn't Satanic ''enough''. Pressured on both sides, the band changed their name to HIM out of frustration just to get rid of the devilish name. Their 1996 EP is the only thing they released under their original name.

They were successful enough at home, but then ''Film/TheThirteenthFloor'' happened. In the European version of that movie, HIM's ''Razorblade Romance'' single, "Join Me in Death", played over the credits. This gained them a significant, loyal following in Europe and the UK, with their true North American breakout happening later, probably with "Rip Out the Wings of a Butterfly" which propelled their 2005 album ''Dark Light'' to gold status, making them the first Finnish act to ship over 500,000 copies in the US.

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final lineup consisted of vocalist Ville Valo, guitarist Mikko "Linde" Lindström, bassist Mikko "Migé" Paananen, Janne "Emerson Burton" Puurtinen on keyboards, and Jukka "Kosmo" Kröger. [[RevolvingDoorBand Things weren't always this way, however...]]
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* NumberOfTheBeast: In case all the 666 being thrown around in this article didn't clue you in by now. Actually, this applies on two different levels: [[CaptainObvious Obviously 666 itself,]] but at least three songs were released in alternative form with the tag "616 Version". Apparently this happened after Ville learned that the number was translated differently depending on which manuscript of the Book of Revelation you had. There was also a parody "surround sound" logo on their ''Dark Light''-era stuff that read "6.16 Surreal Sound", with the Dolby logo replaced with two halves of a heart flipped to face away from each other.
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Um... duh. Vampires don't exist. That trope doesn't even have any real life examples listed for it. Besides, this would be more of an audience reaction trope better suited to YMMV.


* ActuallyNotAVampire: Good luck convincing HIM's fangirls of this. The videos for 'Wicked Game' and 'Join Me in Death' as well as 'Kiss of Dawn' to a degree employ heavy classical [[VampiresAreSexGods vampire]] and otherwise [[FrozenFashionSense Victorian]] gothic aesthetics. One Dark Light track is titled 'Vampire Heart.' Finally, the music video for 'The Sacrament' alludes to creatures of European folklore including arcane vamp-like creatures.
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** If GreatestHits albums count, then "And Love Said No" is one too. Extra points for that album being the first ever to feature that song.

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