"Just to help me dry the tears that I've cried, and if you want I'll try to love again...the first cut is the deepest... I know..."
Buddha cognac, Michael Eros...
These names are other nicknames of the band members, they´re not used oficially.
Buddha Cognac: Gas
Michael Eros: Migé (also Michael Erosina, Michael Fors)
"The new guy": Burton
Daniel Lioneye: Lily (also Danny)
The booklet of the new album also lists some more names, which can be assigned to the members like this if reading the whole text around it:
Don Vitto: probably Ville (Vitto= finn. "idiot", "a**" or even worse ;)
S. Ieni: probably Migé
Elvis: probably Lily (because of the voice)
Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell
Ville wore a coat on which this sentence was written among many others. It´s the title of a song and an album of Iggy Pop and his band Iggy and the Stooges. This quotation can also be found on a picture of David Bowie named "Mask", but this won´t be the reason for Ville writing it on his coat, cause he´s a fan of Iggy Pop.
You´ll find the lyrics here.
Radio advert for live show/Head on
Death trip
I got a right
Hard on beat
Cock in my pocket
Rubber legs
Johanna
Pin point eyes
Open up and bleed
Raw power
Tight pants
Scene of the crime
Poem said at the Comet 2001
irony in place of balls
balls in place of brains
brains in place of soul
where is the soul?
where is the love?
where am i?
Ville said this at the show of the Comet 2001 to the audience, after HIM got the price for "Viva2 Viewers Choice". They got the price from Iggy Pop, and those lines are from his song "Mask". HIM covered the song on a concert of their Germany-tour 2001. They admire him (s.a., "In Iggy we trust" in the booklet of the new album) and attracked attention by many acts of admiration.
"I hate myself & I want to die"
Ville gave this as answer in an interview when he was asked, what he likes about him and what not. It alarmed some fans, but there´s a simple explanation: the sentence is also the title of a song by Nirvana, that Ville quoted. He is not that discontent with himself and wants to die.
The idea of the album titles
Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights"
"Razorblade Romance"
"Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666"
The idea of the album titles is, to build up a contrast and form something like a Yin and Yang, two opposites that somehow belong together. The first album shows the contrast of Love (Greatest Lovesongs) and Evil (Vol. 666), the second one Love (Romance) and Pain/Suffering (Razorblade) and the third one Light (Brilliant Highlights) and Darkness (Deep Shadows).
Helsinki Icehockey Maniacs
This name is another possibility to write out the abbrevation "H.I.M.". It was invented by the band, but propably not because of many icehockey-fans in the band. ;) "His Infernal Majesty" as right version was often misinterpreted and combined with Satan-worshipping, that´s why this funnier version was used as answer to the question, what the name "H.I.M." means, and it also was good for fooling moderators (e.g. at MTV Select).
"Funny Song"
Nickname for "Join me [in death]", used band-internal. I don´t know the reason for this name, but Ville often said, that the success of Join me has surprised him and that he doesn´t think it´s one of his best songs. He thinks it´s strange and funny, that just this song has caused such popularity in the Pop-biz.
"666 revisitied"
Original name of "Death is in love with us". The song is just as "Heaven Tonight" an exception on Razorblade Romance. It´s short and rough and reminds of the first album. To emphasize this similar sound, the "666" was used again like it often was on the first album, but not on the second. Later they found another name for the song.
("Heaven Tonight" was the last song that was written for RR, so it sounds more like those from the third album.)
"[OLT]"
Added to the song "The 9th circle", it means "One Last Time". Both songs have almost the same lyrics and only differ in the arrangements. "The 9th circle" is just another version of the song and is not on the normal, but only on the limited edition of the album.
Heartagram
Ville invented the heartagram, it´s a mix of a heart and a pentagram, standing for Love and Evil. It combines two contrasts, just as the album and some song titles do
SYMBOLS AND WORDS
"Just to help me dry the tears that I've cried, and if you want I'll try to love again...the first cut is the deepest... I know..."
Buddha cognac, Michael Eros...
These names are other nicknames of the band members, they´re not used oficially.
Buddha Cognac: Gas Michael Eros: Migé (also Michael Erosina, Michael Fors) "The new guy": Burton Daniel Lioneye: Lily (also Danny)
The booklet of the new album also lists some more names, which can be assigned to the members like this if reading the whole text around it:
Don Vitto: probably Ville (Vitto= finn. "idiot", "a**" or even worse ;) S. Ieni: probably Migé Elvis: probably Lily (because of the voice)
Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell
Ville wore a coat on which this sentence was written among many others. It´s the title of a song and an album of Iggy Pop and his band Iggy and the Stooges. This quotation can also be found on a picture of David Bowie named "Mask", but this won´t be the reason for Ville writing it on his coat, cause he´s a fan of Iggy Pop.
You´ll find the lyrics here. Radio advert for live show/Head on Death trip I got a right Hard on beat Cock in my pocket Rubber legs Johanna Pin point eyes Open up and bleed Raw power Tight pants Scene of the crime
Poem said at the Comet 2001
irony in place of balls balls in place of brains brains in place of soul where is the soul? where is the love? where am i?
Ville said this at the show of the Comet 2001 to the audience, after HIM got the price for "Viva2 Viewers Choice". They got the price from Iggy Pop, and those lines are from his song "Mask". HIM covered the song on a concert of their Germany-tour 2001. They admire him (s.a., "In Iggy we trust" in the booklet of the new album) and attracked attention by many acts of admiration.
"I hate myself & I want to die"
Ville gave this as answer in an interview when he was asked, what he likes about him and what not. It alarmed some fans, but there´s a simple explanation: the sentence is also the title of a song by Nirvana, that Ville quoted. He is not that discontent with himself and wants to die.
The idea of the album titles
Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights" "Razorblade Romance" "Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666"
The idea of the album titles is, to build up a contrast and form something like a Yin and Yang, two opposites that somehow belong together. The first album shows the contrast of Love (Greatest Lovesongs) and Evil (Vol. 666), the second one Love (Romance) and Pain/Suffering (Razorblade) and the third one Light (Brilliant Highlights) and Darkness (Deep Shadows).
Helsinki Icehockey Maniacs
This name is another possibility to write out the abbrevation "H.I.M.". It was invented by the band, but propably not because of many icehockey-fans in the band. ;) "His Infernal Majesty" as right version was often misinterpreted and combined with Satan-worshipping, that´s why this funnier version was used as answer to the question, what the name "H.I.M." means, and it also was good for fooling moderators (e.g. at MTV Select).
"Funny Song"
Nickname for "Join me [in death]", used band-internal. I don´t know the reason for this name, but Ville often said, that the success of Join me has surprised him and that he doesn´t think it´s one of his best songs. He thinks it´s strange and funny, that just this song has caused such popularity in the Pop-biz.
"666 revisitied"
Original name of "Death is in love with us". The song is just as "Heaven Tonight" an exception on Razorblade Romance. It´s short and rough and reminds of the first album. To emphasize this similar sound, the "666" was used again like it often was on the first album, but not on the second. Later they found another name for the song.
("Heaven Tonight" was the last song that was written for RR, so it sounds more like those from the third album.)
"[OLT]"
Added to the song "The 9th circle", it means "One Last Time". Both songs have almost the same lyrics and only differ in the arrangements. "The 9th circle" is just another version of the song and is not on the normal, but only on the limited edition of the album.
Heartagram
Ville invented the heartagram, it´s a mix of a heart and a pentagram, standing for Love and Evil. It combines two contrasts, just as the album and some song titles do