HIM’s Venus Doom was the sound of a band peering over the edge of the abyss, as Ville Valo explained when Metal Hammer spoke to the singer in 2007.

HIM have superfan Bam Margera to thank for their early exposure, but it's frontman Ville Valo - a Byronic goth-metal pinup - who makes these Finns. ... HIM, ‘Venus Doom’ (Sire) ...

Although it's only starting to penetrate the consciousness of U.S. listeners, the past decade has seen Scandinavia become the not-so-quiet center of the hard rock ...