November 22, 2023 6:45 pm Posted by Editorial –
Former leader of the defunct Finnish band HIM and currently solo leader of his new adventure VVthe finnish Ville Valo turns 47 years old. Still under construction, his legacy has been openly admired by Spanish-speaking metal personalities such as Txus Di Fellatio (Mägo de Oz) and has materialized in the form of the Love Metal subgenre, a name taken from the Finnish group’s fourth full-length.
Born in Helsinki, Light He had a childhood like that of any other Finnish kid, until at the age of eight when the album ‘Animalize’ by Kiss. Since then, inspired by the bassist of the New Yorkers, he began to delve deeper into the subgenres of rock and try his luck in numerous groups with names as picturesque as BLOOD, Eloveena Boys or Aurorain which I would already know Mikko “Mige” Paananenkey personality for the project for which he will possibly pass down to posterity: HIM. Meanwhile, versions of Iron Maiden (their first big concert), U2 or even the Dire Straits They accompanied his musical training.
An accomplished multi-instrumentalist over the years, and after escaping military service thanks to his asthma, Ville Valo created HIM With Mice. After dozens of rehearsals and small-scale concerts, they made their full-length debut with ‘Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666’, a full-length album in which their particular mix of songs began to emerge. metal and gothic rock with a lyrical work focused on the themes of love and death.
A lightning race led them to reach the number 1 with ‘Razorblade Romance’ in Central Europe and to take their first steps with European and American tours supported by ‘Deep Shadows and Brilliand Highlights’ and ‘Love Metal’. Of course, his moment of greatest popularity would come with ‘Dark Light’ and ‘Venus Doom’; The first reached tenth place on the album sales list in Spain and reached the top 20 in the United Kingdom and the United States, always complex markets.
After comings and goings, the band died on New Year’s Eve 2017 as part of the Helldone festival. This has not prevented Valo from continuing his musical career, collaborating with dozens of artists such as Anathema, The 69 Eyes, The Mission or Cradle of Filth, or reaching a new era alone under the pseudonym VV. In any case, his deep imagination based on romantic and gothic literatureare marked personality and the darkness of his compositions has accompanied him every step of his career.
Outside of the stage, his love for music is recognized. skateboardcultivated around his friendship with Bam Margerawhom the general public will know for being part of the cast of Jackass. Admirer of the gothic aesthetic and creator of the Heartagram, he even acquired a tower house in Munkkiniemi, a ghostly place where he lived until 2015; is strict vegetariana reason that perhaps led him to dub the film Madagascar 2 in Finnish, and has practiced judo since he was nine years old, influenced by his father’s love of boxing.
He has not escaped controversy: in 2006 he was accused of try to kill her neighbor following a domestic dispute, a fact that Valo himself downplayed on KROQ 106.7 radio: “I kicked down his door and punched him in the face, that’s all.” Nowadays, after several problems with alcohol, he has become teetotal during tours and has stopped smoking. His future does not seem to pass through straight edgebut it is true that everything seems to indicate that the stability you have found in recent years will allow him to continue exploring the limits of gothic metal In solitary… and who knows if, when the time comes, with HIM.
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