Killing Loneliness

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“Killing Loneliness”
“Killing Loneliness” cover
Single by HIM
from the album Dark Light
Released April, 2006
Format CD single
Recorded 2005
Genre Alternative rock
Length 4:29
Label Sire Records
Producer HIM
HIM singles chronology
"Vampire Heart"
(2005)		 "Killing Loneliness"
(2006)		 "The Kiss of Dawn"
(2007)

"Killing Loneliness" is the second single released by HIM, a Finnish band, and was released in February 2006 in Germany and in April in the UK 2006 from their 2005 breakthrough Dark Light. The song, along with Wings of a Butterfly, is one on the band's best known songs in the United States.

On the May 11, 2006, episode of Loveline, Ville Valo confirmed that the song was inspired by skateboarder Brandon Novak, who blamed his heroin addiction on a need to, as he put it, "kill the loneliness". In other interviews however, he said "Killing Loneliness" is a self-explaining song, in which the loneliness gets killed by his girlfriend. Valo is known for giving different answers to the same question, so the official meaning of the song is still uncertain.

At a concert, at The Pagent in St. Louis Mo. (Oct. 26th) Valo said the song was for his friend who was addicted to smack (heroin), and has since then kicked the habit, obviously referring to Novak.

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[edit] Video

There are two versions of the song's music video: a European and U.S. version. The U.S. version of "Killing Loneliness" was filmed in April 2006 and released in May. Making a guest appearance in the video is tattoo artist Kat Von D, known from the reality television series' LA Ink and Miami Ink.

[edit] Track listing

Finnish track listing
  1. "Killing Loneliness"
  2. "Wings of a Butterfly" (Live)
  3. "Play Dead" (Live)
German track listing EP
  1. "Killing Loneliness"
  2. "The Cage"
  3. "Wings of a Butterfly" (Live)
  4. "Under the Rose" (Live)
  5. "Killing Loneliness" (Video)
Japanese track listing
  1. "Killing Loneliness"
  2. "Under the Rose" (Live)
  3. "Wings of a Butterfly" (Live)
  4. "Play Dead" (Live)
  5. "Vampire Heart" (Live)
  6. "The Cage"
UK track listing
  1. "Killing Loneliness"
  2. "Under the Rose" (Live)

[edit] Chart

Chart Peak
position[1]
Austrian Singles Chart 56
Finnish Singles Chart 2
German Singles Chart 32
Irish Singles Chart 45
Swiss Singles Chart 44
UK Singles Chart 26

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Killing Loneliness" Chart Positions and Trajectories. Retrieved on 2008-03-27.
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