They also performed 'Dead Lovers' Lane' live at the 'Give it a Name Festival' in Birmingham, England, 28 April 2007 and in Glasgow, Scotland, 29 April. The band played the track 'Bleed Well' and 'Passion's Killing Floor' during the 'Projekt Revolution Tour' in Phoenix, Arizona, 1 August 2006. The art work by Harouni is used for the regular edition of the album. The band launched a contest on their Street Team site, asking fans to use the painting as the base for the Venus Doom cover.

Ville Valo purchased one of Harouni's paintings at New Orleans' Harouni Gallery and later asked Harouni if it could be used as the cover. The cover art was painted by artist David Harouni. Venus Doom didn't win, losing out to What It Is!: Funky Soul and Rare Grooves (1967-1977) (performed by various artists and artwork by Masaki Koike). In Finland Venus Doom peaked at #2, and in Germany it debuted at #3.Īt the 50th annual Grammy Awards, Matt Taylor and Ville Valo, for HIM, was nominated for 'Best Boxed/Special Limited Edition packaging' for Venus Doom. On 26 September, the album debuted at #12 in the US, with 38 000 copies sold. The verse contained the line 'we'll descend to the ninth and last, where we're judged' referencing the next track, the ninth track 'Cyanide Sun.' The acoustic version of 'Bleed Well' references this, featuring a verse that was dropped from the final recording. The album has nine tracks to represent the nine circles of hell from Dante's The Divine Comedy. Venus Doom is the first HIM studio album to feature a song featuring nothing but an acoustic guitar, aside from vocals.

Ville Valo told Kerrang! magazine that there is a concept in a couple of the tracks written during the same period of time. The album was produced by Tim Palmer (Ozzy Osbourne, Dredg) and Hiili Hiilesmaa (The 69 Eyes, Apocalyptica). Venus Doom has both the longest and shortest running HIM tracks to date the longest being 'Sleepwalking Past Hope' (10:03) and the shortest being the acoustic 'Song or Suicide' (1:10). Frontman Ville Valo calls the album the band's heaviest yet, describing the roots of its sound in Metallica's album Master of Puppets and My Bloody Valentine's Loveless. Venus Doom is the sixth studio album by Finnish rock band HIM, released on 14 September 2007 (Germany, Finland, Sweden and Ireland), 17 September 2007 internationally and 18 September 2007 in the United States.

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