Once a HIMster, always a HIMster
I am really excited for today! I was waiting for this concert for almost half a year and I cannot wait to see one of my favorite band, sadly for the last time.
What is weird for me, at least not so usual, is that I became a HIM fan not when I was ‘supposed’ to. They hit me later on, in my 20s, sophomore at the uni in summer holidays, in 2012 if I want to be precise. For sure, at that time HIM were not at their peak of their popularity and it felt being ‘out of the fashion’ to say I have a crush on them.
But HIM for me was something more than a band. I have been struck by their aesthetics, feeling that in some way, somehow there is a magical thing that only music can do, that I had a connection and I was being expressed. A feeling that I hadn’t felt for several years, for entering my adult life that romantic, desperate, melancholic voice of mine had been closed in a closet in a place so deep, that I had to dig for a thousand of years to access it again. At least this how I was thinking in those days until Mr.Valo made something that nobody around me, not even me could do that.
I cannot decide which of their songs is my favorite one, I do have though a favorite album and it is the ‘Venus Doom’. My most true and emotional moments though were triggered and accompanied by the ‘Cyanicide Sun’, ‘Love’s Requiem’, and ‘For You’.
Thank you HIM for all these amazing 5 years that I spent with you. Your presence is really important for who I feel I am.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACssWxQ94oQ