Many fans around the world continue to hope for a reunion of the iconic Finnish band H.I.M., but apparently, the creators of Love Metal will not return… at least for a while. This was said by the singer of the group, Ville Valo, in a recent interview with Metal Hammer.
“I don’t find it an appetising idea at the moment," Valo reveals. "We haven’t really been in touch, which tells you a lot. If the phone starts ringing at some point, then we’ll see. I love the guys and I hope that they still care about me, too. So maybe one day, but it would have to be for good reason. But the countdown to the end of my life has started, I don’t have time to reinvent the wheel, so I have to put all my effort into whatever is happening next. It’s lovely to have a family, and lovely to have that co-dependency in a band, but with this, the cool thing was that I didn’t have to call anybody and ask for permission. I’d like to keep it like that for the time being.”
HIM said goodbye to the stage in 2017 after almost three decades of career, while Valo's debut solo album, Neon Noir was released last year under VV moniker.
"There seems to be a new generation of people coming to the gigs, and not only for the HIM songs. With VV there’s been a lot of firsts. I wrote the whole album myself, I played all the instruments, I produced the album myself, there was a lot of me, myself and I."
