All Hail HIM: The 5th Annual HIMoin Overdose Show

HIM a.k.a. His Infernal Majesty, are a metal + hard rock band, based in Helsinki, Finland that began life in the early 1990's as a Black Sabbath cover band. Over time they developed a sound somewhere between goth and doom metal initially and later the doom sound incorporated more of a stoner metal edge. Love them or hate them, they are a major inspiration for e.V.'s Underground. The show's producer tripped over them and their vocalist while searching for a Lee Hazlewood song, Summer Wine, on Youtube. And the rest is history. So, every year, on (or near) the birthday of their frontman, as a nod to that formative inspiration, we have a show featuring almost nothing but HIM's music. They have an impressive back catalogue, so this isn't hard to do.

What the heck is HIMOIN, you ask? Al alternative to HEROIN, that is legal and healthy. :)

Mainline some, aurally, ON_DEMAND here. direct from the Mothership, the Mighty 93.1

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SIG:AR:TYR / Paul Chain / HIM / Hannu Lepisto

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SIG:AR:TYR

Hailing from London, ON, SIG:AR:TYR plays a dark atmospheric amalgam of pagan, folk & black metal, focusing on mainly acoustic guitar work and storytelling.

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PAUL CHAIN

Paul Chain, seminal guitarist & pioneer of Italian doom metal co-founded the occult rock outfit Death SS, with Steve Sylvester, then went on to do solo work and various after leaving Death SS for religious reasons.

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H.I.M.

HIM (a.k.a. His Infernal Majesty) needs no introduction to regular listeners of e.V.'s Underground but for those who don't know them they veer between doom metal with heavy stoner metal influence and goth metal and goth rock. They strated life as a Black Sabbath cover band - so here they are covering Sabbath's Hand Of Doom." This show fesatures some live stuff they did on a German TV show back in 1998.

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Hannu Lepisto

Hannu Lepisto is a Helsinki-based singer-songwriter, guitarist and drummer, writing across a number of genres, from pop to rock to country to folk. A good description would be a cross between Lou Reed, Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen - if they could sing! Sometimes he sounds little like Jyrki Linnankivi with the 69 Eyes.

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