Trivia / HIM

• Creator Backlash: "Join Me in Death"; they still played it live because the fans liked it, but aren't particularly proud of the song. Allegedly, Valo is critical of the song for its simplistic, repetitive melody and unrealistic angle on love, and legend has it the group even called it "Funny Song" while they were working on it. He also said it had that really corny, silly element he came to feel was missing from their very straight-faced debut record.
• Creator Breakdown: Venus Doom. Immediately after finishing production, Valo reportedly went into rehab.
• Flip-Flop of God: "Killing Loneliness" can either be about drug addiction or a typical goth take on love, depending on the interview Valo gives.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Their only official pre-GLS Vol. 666 release is the EP 666 Ways to Love: Prologue, which itself is quite rare in its CD edition as only 1,000 copies of it were ever released. But their demo This Is Only the Beginning, while heavily bootlegged among the fanbase, was never released officially. Neither was Witches and Other Night Fears; while it's been confirmed Valo is the only one who still has a copy, it seems all the band members around at that time got one, but have since lost theirs. Valo retains the master copy, though, and at one point mentioned plans to put the contents into Pro Tools.
• Shrug of God: In a press release, Venus Doom was said to have nine tracks based on The Divine Comedy's depiction of hell which famously has nine layers. Much later on, however, Valo admitted he couldn't recall if that were the idea in the first place.
• Trolling Creator: The original album version of "It's All Tears (Drown in This Love)" doesn't really end, per se. Rather, it glitches out... or, rather, makes you think it's glitching out. The ploy worked so well people actually returned the CD to the store they bought it from, thinking they had gotten a damaged copy. Being that this is a trick of production rather than a music thing, it's not exactly conducive to being replicated in concert, so the band would rather play "TV Eye" by The Stooges as Valo sings a particularly nasty bit from Monster Magnet's "Wall of Fire" to close out this song.