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According to Ville Valo, lead vocalist for Finnish rockers HIM, "It's very hard to sing about sunshine and ice cream and birds in fast cars." So he doesn't even try. Instead, song titles like "Cyanide Sun", "Dead Lovers' Lane", and "Song or Suicide" populate his band's latest CD, Venus Doom. "I'm a miserable bastard when it comes to writing music," claims the singer, calling on his cellphone from the outskirts of Detroit. "I love melancholy music, and I love the darker aspects when it comes to, like, popular music. I've always been a big fan of [Black] Sabbath and all that, so obviously they've been a big influence on me, and I wanted to write music that would have a similar kind of gloomy atmosphere to it."

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