Despite the fact that his band, HIM, hung it up more than five years ago now, singer Ville Valo has frequently discussed the possibility of reunion shows or what it would take to get the band back ...

Few modern rock stars are as charismatic as former HIM frontman Ville Valo. In 2006, Metal Hammer travelled to Italy to meet Ville and his band to try to find out what made this modern rock god tick.

VV drops the next single from his upcoming debut solo album Neon Noir, which Ville Valo calls a “neat little Gordian knot of the gothic variety”. Half a decade on from the end of gothic rock ...