Explaining HIM 

Everyone keeps talking about how much they love him, but no one will tell me who he is

I met HIM in December 2023 through Bam Margera from Jackass on the DVD documentary he made, called BAM vs HIM and from then on with each passing day I became more obsessed with the band. Greetings from Brazil🤘🤘

no way Wyatt makes this video the week i've been absolutely obsessed with HIM😭😭

This is easily the channel who has revealed the most kick ass bands love your stuff man

I just love the fact they are named after a mistranslated deicide song title, there is no song called "his infernal majesty" in deicide's back catalogue, turns out the record they took their name from is a bootleg.

As a Finn HIM was arguably the biggest band in finland in the 00s with Nightwish, Razorblade Romance was my first ever album i can remember because my mom used to listen to it almost daily😅 Venus Doom is their best imo

Listening to HIM and all that 2000s mall shit feels like walking back home love it

Very cool that you finally made this video! I feel as though HIM is a band that is very overlooked and/or misunderstood by the vast majority of metal heads. Razorblade Romance is also one of my fave all time albums and I'm someone who owns 15,000+ CD's, listening to music of all genres (and creating it too) on a daily basis, religiously and obsessively. VV's solo album was great too and I was fortunate enough to see that tour last October and grab a signed LP! Anyhow, keep up the great work over there Wyatt \m/

I've waited for so long, for this moment to come... As a Finn, I can't help but to find your way of pronouncing Mige funny. HIM is my all time favourite band and I literally can't believe that your favourite HIM song is also Your Sweet 666!! I love your videos Wyatt!

Primitive Warfare. ❤

I loved your analysis and approach. I've loved this band since I was 12 years old and I still listen to them. Thank you very much, hugs from Brazil.

You make such killer videos dude, love the explaining and iceberg videos and the lists. It's all killer and no filler, keep it up dude!

Awesome video! Nice to see people still talking about HIM, and others giving them a chance. Been a fan since Dark Light, came out and the "wings of a butterfly" video played constantly on fuse TV. Didn't heavily get into them until about 2016, but I've been hooked ever since. Love Ville's Neon Noir as well

wyattx explaining him!!

I remember hearing their cover of Don’t Fear the Reaper when I was maybe 11 or 12 and LOVED it, but for whatever reason, I never really took the time to delve much into them, despite them touching on some of my favorite niches of music. Maybe after this, I’ll have to take more time to give them a proper listen.

I got into HIM 7-8 years ago after stumbling upon the Right Here in My Arms Music video and immediately fell in love with them. I loved every album they had put out and still go through a "HIM Spree" every once in a while where I'll just play them non stop for a couple of days. Awesome video Wyatt, Glad to see you make a video about this legendary band.

Thanks wyatt we needed this

Cool. Now, explain Wyattx.

Hands down my favorite band. I miss em.

Gotta love HIM, sometimes it just brings such a nostalgic vibe. I 100% echo the Bam Margera statements, as a skateboarder and middle schooler at the time, his influence was huge!

thank you for introducing me to this band its great

I love him too thanks for explaining wyattxhim

Interesting! I've never really given them a try, I'll have to see if I dig it or not! Thanks for the upload dude keep up the awesome work 🤘

I was in high school when I bought one of those "Beauty in Darkness" DVDs, which included the Wicked Game video (Greatest Lovesongs version). At that moment I thought they'd done something really cool with that song, but didn't care to look further into the band. Some months later, I stumbled across the Join Me video on a music TV show and I was completely flabbergasted by Valo's voice and the song's main piano melody. That's when I immediately bought their first three albums on Ebay (they hadn't released Love Metal yet) and become obsessed with them until this day. Thank you for this wonderful video, Wyatt.

Great video man, would be interesting to see you rank the albums

Always love the videos man! But this hits different for me because I grew up with HIM and has been one of my favorite bands since I was like 13. Deep shadows or vol666 would have to be my favorite albums but I love them all

I've been waiting for this video for about 7 yrs

I’m glad I got to see them on their last tour, totally life changing.

As a Finn, we all have a HIM story. Mine is second hand unfortunately, because I was just a bit young, but they used to play in local Vampire the Masquerade larps for a case of beer. Apparently they had a good gig, just a bunch of teenagers really eager to play.

There was a year that I listened to about 700 Hours of HIM. Not even joking, love this band so much.

At this point im convinced you have cameras on me, this is the 3rd time you make an explaining video about an artist right after i get into them

Thanks for this video, it's beautiful to see that this band has a moment of revival because they are one of the most underrated bands in the entire scene. Don't be afraid to call them gothic metal because that's what they are. Screw the gatekeepers.

Been a fan of them for ages, finally saw them during their farewell tour. While it was fun and good it certainly felt like a band going through the motions and feeling like it was time to quit. Saw VV over a week ago and it was such a blast. Great blend of HIM hits with the softer solo stuff. Certainly a must for HIM fans, he still sounds fantastic.

I appreciate you

"Who's on first?" "HIM." "Who's HIM?" "Not who! What!"

Oh hell yeah

HIM was weirdly introduced to me by my Mom. She's not really into new music and modern goth rock at time. She was very much in 80s pop music and classic rock and punk. So it was weird at the time my mom showed me a new band what sounded like them. Never was a huge fan but I was alslways thought they had a great aesthetic and image. Definitely a stand-out band what will always be remembered.

When I saw a kid, I never listened to him but it felt like they were a big deal just from their image and music videos. Really effective imagery

I learned guitar with their first 2 albums. Good old times. Not a fan of the pop phase after Razorblade, but Venus Doom amd Screamworks were really good again. Still warming up to their last album. Him was an entry band into goth and metal, so I'll always cherish them, even now with all the death and war metal I'm into

A band that I was addicted in my 20s I love everything they released until Love Metal, their last album that spoke to me, from there and on I felt that they have soften a lot for my taste.

i love HIM

OH MY GOD HE DONE IT!!!!

Growing i always saw him and himsa cds in hot topic,best buy,fye any connection between the 2 bands that you know of?

Luv yer takes dude! Have you got into the band Christian Death? Tried a search for your review and could not find.

Not a big fan of HIM but its kind of my guilty pleasure. Saw VV live when i went to see Pantera reunion if u can even call it a renuion last year in my home country Finland. Set was nice since they also played the classic HIM songs!

never liked them much but I did also always think they were quite unique. No objections, I get why people dig it even if it's not for me. I saw them like Type O if you readjusted the balancing dialing out some of the heavy metal and more of the romantic sentamentality in, so it was interesting to hear the description of their origin and hearing the music in the background which echoes very much of Type O

First of all respect for this detailed retrospective of HIM's career! I wouldn't call me a fan, but they composed many good songs during their career. Some don't like them because of their so called "mainstream sound" but they never sold out. They always made that kind of music they wanted to and the profit came second. Their sound never meant to be "metal" it should be a mix of softer and harder sound and the heartagram was the representation of this interplay (as also for the duality of opposites like love and death or ying and yang). My favorite album is also "Rezorblade Romance", but I dislike "One Last Time" it doesn't fit with the other songs (the alternative version "The 9th Circle" is better and should have been instead of this on the album). One correction I have to make. The demo "Witches and other Night Fears" was never released, so nobody ever heard it (some think that the hidden track no. 66 on Greatest Love Songs vol. 666 is a cutout from this demo). The cover that you showed belongs to the demo "This is Only the Beginning" from 1995. It has 6 songs, which they recordet from 1994 until 1995. It has the demo versions of "Stigmata Diaboli", "Wicked Game" and "The Heartless" on it. All this songs were re-recordet for the later releases (some many times like "Wicked Game"). "The Phantom Gate" was completely revised to "Yor Sweet Six Six Six".

My girlfriend got me into this band when we started dating 9 months ago, thanks for uploading this video!

Back in my middle school and early high school days all the goth kids were covered in HIM merch. I was far more of a metal guy (outside of being married to hip-hop), because that's what the soundtrack was during football workouts. I've never been curious enough to see what the hype is about, the doom metal album from HIM seems interesting though.

Wish you’d talk about that Primitive Warfare on your shelf

that lineup on the demo reminds me of Necromantia

Geniunely clicked this because I've never heard a single song by the band despite knowing their band and logo because of the sheer popularity (it took me until 2 years ago to listen to rage against the machine despite knowing they existed for a majority of my life for reference)

nice!

Not a big fan of them , but Ville Valo had great "Bittersweet" song with Apocalyptica and the vocalist from The Rasmus . Their vocal harmonies are great in this song and they sound almost like cellos . You said that the album from 2005 was HIM's best selling ... well it can be also because this song was so popular . At least in my country - Poland - the music video for Bittersweet was played all the time on Mtv .

He really is HIM

What is the album on the shelf? Looks so familiar

I always enjoyed their style of fashion which I call Lazy Goth, a mix of Iggy Pop, Peter Murphy and Ian Astbury. Only Ville Valo could wear a Beanie with the tighest blue jeans you'll ever see and mix it with a conductor's tail coat and Chuck Taylor's with a half smoked cigarette hanging off his lip and make it look cool. But it was also the mix of metal and gothic that had me as an instant fan of them. It was what i wanted and need to hear at the time around 2002 when i first heard them. Nu-Metal was on it's way out Metalcore and NWOAHM were just emerging and I was pretty bored with both of them and needed something new but also easy to listen to.

Never listened to HIM. Listening to it for the first time my immediate kneejerk comparison is some Japanese visual kei artists. One song that comes to mind is Zephyr by Sukekiyo. I'm not sure if you've seen this comparison made.

Never been a fan of them, but i might give them a chance, btw, the only song i like from them is "Souls on fire" (the live Ozzfest version, not the album one)

2 hours ago is crazy

do daniel lioneye volume 2

I know ALL there’re song word for word not to be lame that’s like a guilty pleasure of mine my taste has changed a lot since I was a kid. lol

Wait, this is a band? I thought you were named after that guy from the PowerPuff Girls...

HIMs's music is like Fantasy metal.

I've always felt like screamworks is way too underrated in their catalogue, so many great songs. In venere veritas is probably in my top 5 HIM songs

Make a video on Black Kray next WyattxSouljah

Do a vid on Christian Death (The Rozz years only).

1st Some rock songs HERE

Halfway through, no mention of slippery when dead? 😢

Great band. Whenever i mention them as a fave, some dudes will push back and reply pffff that’s like something my girlfriend listens to. And I’d reply cool she has great taste 👍

albert?

I think that’s a primitive warfare vinyl in the back not sure but if it is based

My favorite band despite all the heavy shit I listen to.

Is the background music nightcore Him????? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Explaining who?

HIM is coolish

BTW Poison Girl's demo version is way superior

Every millennial goth girls favorite band, that and type O negative

No views 🔥

Bro thinks it's HIM

primitive warfare!

Who's HE? DU DUN TCHA

Nah fam this ain't it.

Hmm can’t really ever get on that band wagon. HIM has got to be the post 2000s tiny popper poser music. Self endulgen and narcissistic imagery and uninspiring music

Did not like him to lame and to soft and not heavy 👎👎

respect your opinions on music and culture but i never ever thought that Him was worth a pinch of shit. I dont give a toss about Bam and I have listened to Hims music but still I feel like its a pile of shite