2026 marks 30 years since the release of goth metal icons HIM's first EP. In the new issue of Metal Hammer, Ville Valo reflects on his band's decades-long journey through the music industry, from Black Sabbath-obsessed awkward teens to becoming Finland's most successful metal band at the turn of the new millennium.
To commemorate this journey, we asked Ville to talk us through every record HIM have released - including that 1996 EP, 666 Ways To Love: Prologue - and Neon Noir, the first release under his solo VV banner that undoubtedly spun off from his music with HIM.
