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The multimillion-selling Byronic goths are on their final tour, blending torrid emotion with last-day-of-school mischief
Over the course of two decades and eight albums, Finnish goth-rockers HIM have chiselled out a decadent niche by combining melodic power with a Byronic glower. By the early 2000s, they had become multimillion-selling metal monsters across mainland Europe, and while the five-piece never quite crossed over into the UK and US mainstream, the distinctive HIM sigil – an inverted pentagram with two points rounded off to create a heart – at least made a decent impression.
After a recent creative furlough, this six-month, global farewell tour (subtitled, with typical Finnish deadpan, Bang and Whimper 2017) will climax with a hometown blowout in Helsinki on New Year’s Eve. Faithful fans have remobilised – the UK leg is sold out – to celebrate the band’s juddering and unabashedly emotional legacy. They may hail from the land of raspy gargoyles Lordi, but with their torrid, high-wire tales of cursed and/or thwarted love HIM have almost as much in common thematically with Lorde.
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