The career of Finnish goth metal icons HIM was nothing if not eventful. Frontman Ville Valo’s well-documented problems with alcohol almost ended with him checking into rehab following 2007’s Venus Doom album. By the time of 2013’s Tears On Tape, it was the turn of drummer Gas Lipstick to suffer an injury that almost ended his own career. Ville invited Hammer into the band’s Helsinki lair to talk tears, trauma and the album that would unknowingly become HIM’s swansong.
