HIM will start recording a new album in Los Angeles in August with producer Matt Squire (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Squire). The working title is 'SCREAMWORKS: Love in Theory and Practice' and tentative release date by Warner Records worldwide in early 2010.
INFO:
Title: SCREAMWORKS: Love in Theory and Practice
Release date: February 14, 2010 (tentative)
Producer: Matt Squire
Band members: Ville Valo (Vocals), Mikko Lindström (Guitar), Mikko Paananen (Bass), Janne Puurtinen (Keyboards), Mika Karppinen (Drums)
Recording Locations: Los Angeles, CA (Aug-Sept 2009)
June 9/2009 (Euro-Rock Radio): Ville made an interview with Renegade Radio during the Euro-Rock Radio show (mp3) on June 9. Here are highlights from the interview:
* It now seems certain that HIM's seventh studio album is titled SCREAMWORKS: A Theory in Love and Practice.
* Valo mentioned recording will happen in Los Angeles hopefully in the beginning of August, working with Washington D.C. producer Matt Squire, who is currently located in Los Angeles. The sound of the album keeps changing every day and the songs would land somewhere between "(Rip Out) the Wings of a Butterfly", "The Funeral of Hearts" and "Right Here in My Arms". "It's pretty '80s it's really direct, straight forward and very sing along."
* Being at their rehearsal space daily for about 12 hours, they have about 11 to 12 songs now and hopefully having 15 for the album. "I haven't been going out at all. I've been back home strumming the acoustic guitar, writing down lyrics, working on Pro-Tools and Linde has been picking me up to go rehearsals every other day. ... They have a chorus and they have a verse and they have, maybe some of them have a pre-chorus and they have a middle section (bridge) and maybe some rip-off '80s heavy metal guitar in-between and then it's double chorus and end."
* He says the idea is to get the new album out on Valentine's Day (Feb. 14, 2010) - seeing they go into the studio in August, and it should take from then til' September of this year. They hope to have mixing began before Halloween and then figure out cover art work along with album mastering.
source:www.heartagram.com
Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice Track List
Below is the official track listing and sequence for HIM's new album Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice.
1. In Venere Veritas
2. Scared To Death
3. Heartkiller
4. Dying Song
5. Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)
6. Love, The Hardest Way
7. Katherine Wheel
8. In The Arms Of Rain
9. 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
Keep checking back to Heartagram.com for more photos, album cover and official release date; which will all be revealed in the very near future.
