Finnish Love Metal pioneer, Ville Valo (VV) of HIM, has released his debut solo album Neon Noir, out now via Heartagram Records, distributed by UMG/Spinefarm.

Ville Valo comments: “I firmly believe Neon Noir sprinkles some much-missed glitter all over modern day doom and gloom. It’s 12 lessons in reckless abandon without spilling the red."

Check out the video for the album's title track 'Neon Noir' here: https://youtu.be/kSk4FzX2yfo

Stream/purchase Neon Noir here: https://lnk.to/vv-neonnoir

VV’s headline tour, taking place across Europe, the UK and North America, has already sold-out across a number of cities.

UK dates:

Mar 10: Bristol O2 Academy
Mar 11: Nottingham Rock City [SOLD OUT]
Mar 13: Glasgow Garage [SOLD OUT]
Mar 14: Manchester O2 Ritz [SOLD OUT]
Mar 15: London O2 Forum Kentish Town [SOLD OUT]

Tickets are on sale here: https://bnds.us/1gvnb7

*Neon Noir* tracklisting:

1. Echolocate Your Love
2. Run Away From the Sun
3. Neon Noir
4. Loveletting
5. The Foreverlost
6. Baby Lacrimarium
7. Salute the Sanguine
8. In Trenodia
9. Heartful of Ghosts
10. Saturnine Saturnalia
11. Zener Solitaire
12. Vertigo Eyes

ABOUT VV / Ville Valo:

In the annals of 21st century alternative rock history there are few artists who cast a longer, or more peculiar shadow than Finnish Love Metal pioneer Ville Valo. After all, his band HIM were easily among the most iconic and idiosyncratic groups of the millennium. Zealously revered, gleefully reviled but impossible to ignore, their music left an indelible mark on a worldwide legion of fans. The scarlet letters stood for His Infernal Majesty. Their founder stood for something delightedly out of step with the status quo.

"We only hoped to temporarily redirect hard rock's blood flow from the nether regions towards the heart", reminisces Ville Valo, the singer, songwriter and primus motor of HIM. Judging by the monolithic presence of the Heartagram in any account of music this side of the millennium, it’s apparent that he succeeded.

Inspired by everyone from Poe to Bukowski and tinged by a penchant for perfumed Sabbathian gloom, Valo’s creative lovechild would produce eight era-defining studio releases and over ten million record sales, not forgetting a Grammy nomination, countless magazine covers, critical acclaim, and the veneration of a generation. Thus, it came as no surprise that the news of a farewell tour in 2017 was greeted with shock and disbelief among devotees and endless speculation as to what or who was to take up the velvet mantle.

“As fun as the funeral rites for HIM were, it took me more than a few moons to lick my wounds in the shadow of the Heartagram and come up with an excuse to strum and hum again. Eventually I decided to put a leash on my beloved black dog and we started howling together instead of barking at each other. That's how the album Neon Noir was born".

The answer came earlier this year with the melodious exsanguination of first single ‘Loveletting’, followed by the elegiac goth-optimism of ‘Echolocate Your Love’, which Valo described as, "a teary mascara marathon between Robert Smith and Ozzy, with a dash of hope." Now, with the glow of Neon Noir fast approaching comes the driving, nocturnal radiance of ‘The Foreverlost’, an up-tempo paean to doomed romance and a confident affirmation of Valo’s peerless ability to imbue timeless songwriting and balladry, with a whiff of roses and brimstone.

VV (Ville Valo) releases debut solo album Neon Noir and video for title track

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