“I’m not a role-playing games guy. I’m not about drinking beer and singing folk songs. I’m all about sex, blood and rock’n’roll”: How Finnish glam-goth metal icons The 69 Eyes blazed a trail for HIM

The 69 Eyes posing for a photograph in 2009.

Before HIM cornered the market in Finnish goth metal, Helsinki’s The 69 Eyes had the elegantly wasted after-midnight look and sound nailed down. In 2009, as they geared up to release their ninth album Back In Blood, mainman Jyrki 69 sat down with Metal Hammer to talk sex, vampires and rock’n’roll.