Comment by @stani • Hey

My favorite is Join Me, and nothing is a s good as seeing HIM in legendary Ankkarock as a kid back in late 90s. I was always surprised how much success HIM

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Wow, lucky you! HIM was in their prime back then, especially Ville Valo's vocal abilities. Very underrated singer back in the day! Fun fact about HIM's success outside of Finland. For the first two albums their record label refused to release them outside of Europe and when the studio executives were presented with Razorblade Romance they hated it and deemed it a failure. It ended up being a huge success all over Europe. So you'd expect their label to release their next album "Deep Shadows..." outside of the EU, right? Wrong. They still refused. Alright, well what about Love Metal after that? Nope. They still refused lol So HIM went with a new record label (Sire Records) and was set up in a mansion with American producer Tim Palmer to produce the Dark Light album, and after it's success in the US (its the only album to ever go gold in the US by a Finnish artist) their new label released their old albums in the US. It was a constant struggle for that band. For 4 albums their label worked against them every step of the way, but they still did VERY well for a Finnish artist in the end.