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Win A Pair Of Tickets To Helldone From Euro Rock Radio

Euro Rock Radio will be giving away a pair of coveted Helldone tickets for the New Year's Eve show on December 31, 2009! They will be doing ‘qualifying rounds’ starting next week to qualify people to be in the running on November 10th for the tickets. These mini contests could be trivia questions, a ‘Where’s Ville’ game, or even being a certain caller into the station, who knows! You’ll have to tune in to find out! But that’s not all! Each winner of the qualifying rounds will also get a piece of the Killing Loneliness wall – from the wall of graffiti used in the Killing Loneliness video! Lots to win between now and November 10th and then a pair of tickets to the most sought after HIM show of the year!

Keep an eye on Euro-Rock Radio for more details as they come in and be sure to tune in next Tuesday for the beginning of the qualifying rounds!

Free Heartagram Pumpkin Stencil at the HIM online store!

Head over the HIM online store a receive a FREE Heartagram digital pumpkin stencil with purchases!

Also if you use the code word HIMHALLOWEEN you will receive 13% off your entire purchase.

Click HERE to head the HIM online store!

Ville and Pekka Himanen In LA

Pekka Himanen's travel blog has a great Finnish video of Ville on Friday evening in LA on Sunset Blvd outside of Whiskey a Go Go.
http://dignifi.posterous.com/ville-valon-pokan-filosofia-vermon-ravirata...

Check out the rest of the his blog to see all the places and people Pekka Himanen's met on his travels across the world. Every human being should have the right to experience living a dignified life, believes the philosopher Pekka Himanen.

Helldone Festival 2009

Oh yes, home for the holidays! Life in Southern Cali is really nice, know what I mean? But sometimes it’s good for your soul to feel the extremes - the round-the-clock darkness and the merciless cold. After all it’s a universally known fact that there is no better place to get rid of your studio tan than Hellsinki in late December! Feel that rush again, the blood racing through your veins, feeling a-live! It’s about time, too, knowing there’s an Australian tour looming on the rapidly approaching horizon. And you’ve been itching to slip in some new songs into your set, now haven’t you?

No doubt about it, HIM is in. Then again they always have been, since the first Helldone Festival back in 2005 - and even beyond that. After all, there wouldn’t be a festival in the first place if the band hadn’t made a tradition out of playing New Year’s Eve gigs at their home base, the Tavastia club, starting all the way back in 1998!

Since early August HIM has been working on their seventh studio album in Los Angeles with producer Matt Squire. The working title of the album is “Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice” and it is scheduled to be released on Valentine’s Day 2010. Starving for live action the band has now decided they would love to headline each and every night of the Four Headed Beast from the North that is Helldone 2009!

Get some of your old friends to give us all a special treat, like go acoustic in the intimate surroundings of funky ol’ Semifinal club. Just take a sharp right after the pinball machine, there’s a short set of stairs leading down - voila, you’ve made it!

The 69 Eyes have just released the most electrifying, hard rocking album of their careers in “Back In Blood”. They will arrive at Helldone Festival red hot after an extensive American tour. Perfect timing for a breather, then - a rare chance to unplug and unwind. After a three-night residency of what will without doubt consist of vampire ballads & debauchery they will hand over the reins to Anathema acoustic.

Anathema is of course one of the forerunners of British doom metal. Formed in Liverpool 1990, they have outgrown all genres a long time ago in their ever continuing search for new ways to express feeling through sound. Anathema acoustic is a rare performance of the mellower moments from Anathema, featuring all three Cavanagh brothers with exquisite cello accompaniment. A rare thing to behold, as anyone who owns their recent acoustic album 'hindsight' can testify to.

. Invite the cream of your new favourite bands to open for you. Finland’s Finest - the next generation. Please step forward!

Flamer is the name of the new band of former Bleak frontman and songwriter Caleb. This second time around Caleb has managed to retain everything that was good in his former band, including hit single Fate off the Jade Warrior movie, add some new twists to his music and take the whole thing to the next level. Flamer’s debut album “Molotov Cocktails” is in the pipeline.

The reviews of Ghost Brigade’s 2007 debut "Guided by Fire" were glowing. ‘Impressively atmospheric, dark, intelligent and passionate’, they read. ‘Katatonia's grief collides with the wrath of Neurosis’. The guys from Jyväskylä kept their cool, stayed focused and upped their game with this year’s “Isolation Songs”. Brilliant live band, too!

After having released a handful of singles that received cult status Vanity Beach finally got around to releasing their debut album “A Life Of Vice” earlier this year. Their mission has been from the very beginning to bring back danger into rock & roll. When you listen to their mix of noisy post-punk, haunting synthesizer soundscapes and dark metal overtones, you know they’re on the right track. ‘They sound like Mötley Crüe’s soul looks like’, Metal Hammer famously commented. Everybody knows that’s a scary place to be.

Major Label is a trio from Helsinki, just three guys making this big, big music. You could label their second album “When I Am With You, You Are Safe” alternative metal, but that means you’ve only scratched the surface. The band’s own description of their music takes you a little closer to the truth: ‘our sound is like watching a Michel Gondry movie while simultaneously listening to Sigur Rós and Rage Against The Machine’. The rest is there for you to find out.

The Helldone Festival. Tons of old friends to meet, time to catch up, party to the coolest of tunes. The coolest of tunes… right! Let’s not forget our resident DJ Crew, the infamous Club TarTar DJs. Gentlemen, state your case.

“DJs extraordinaire Ginger Boy, Egyptin Portti and Stereo Ramses will shower you with the best tunes known in Valhalla and beyond. Their mad beatmismatching skillz and feverish scratching will make even the toughest pharaoh dance like a werewolf in the moonlight shadow.”

Yes, people, the Helldone Festival 2009. We promise you four nights of love & magic leading the faithful into 2010. And what a year that is promising to be!

Tickets will go on sale:

Oct 20th at 09:00am in Helsinki, Finland (EEST)
Oct 20th at 02:00am in New York (EDT)
Oct 19th at 11:00pm in Los Angeles, US (PDT)

Mon 28th December
Tavastia stage
HIM
support: Flamer + Club TarTarDJs

Semifinal stage:
The 69 Eyes Unplugged

Tue 29th December
Tavastia stage
HIM
support: Ghost Brigade + Club TarTarDJs

Semifinal stage:
The 69 Eyes Unplugged

Wed 30th December
Tavastia stage
HIM
support: Vanity Beach + Club TarTarDJs

Semifinal stage:
The 69 Eyes Unplugged

Thu 31st December
Tavastia stage
HIM
support: Major Label + Club TarTarDJs

Semifinal stage:
Anathema acoustic (UK)

Tickets: 45 € / night. (PLEASE NOTE: 2 tickets per customer only per night)
No multi-day passes available this year!
Strict age limit for all nights 18 and over
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Tickets will go on sale Oct 20th at 09:00 (EET)

Opening hours: 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. (except New Year’s Eve 8 p.m. to 4 a.m.)