HIM present fans with video for “Like St. Valentine” / Ville talks about new song

January 29th, 2010

Grant Trimboli

Finnish rockers HIM have presented their fans with an early Valentines Day present in the form of a new video for “Like St. Valentine” – see it here. The song comes off the band’s seventh studio album Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice, which will be released on Sire Records February 9th. The band promise MANY more videos in the next few weeks for many of the 13 tracks from the new album. As part of that series Ville recently sat down and discussed the meaning behind the song “Love, The Hardest Way.” The interview can be seen here.

Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice is the follow-up to Venus Doom, which debuted at No. 12 in the US and was nominated for a Grammy Award for “Best Boxed/Special Limited Edition Packaging.”

HIM will kick off a North American tour March 26th in Philadelphia and finish up in New York on May 7th.

Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice tracklisting is as follows:

01. In Venere Veritas
02. Scared To Death
03. Heartkiller
04. Dying Song
05. Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)
06. Love, The Hardest Way
07. Katherine Wheel
08. In The Arms Of Rain
09. Ode To Solitude
10. Shatter Me With Hope
11. Acoustic Funeral (For Love In Limbo)
12. Like St. Valentine
13. The Foreboding Sense Of Impending Happiness

“Love, The Hardest Way”