VV Will Release His Debut Solo Album Neon Noir On January 13th 2023 – Album Details Revealed

+ 2023 HEADLINE TOUR OF EUROPE, UK & NORTH AMERICA

++ VILLE VALO ON THE COVER OF KERRANG!

“Neon Noir is a sonic step-by-step guide on how to survive, and perhaps even enjoy, the realm of VV with its abundance of things that go bump in the night,” says Valo. “It’s a teary mascara marathon between Robert Smith and Ozzy, with a dash of hope.”

We can today share the album artwork and tracklist:

NEON NOIR TRACKLIST:

01: Echolocate Your Love

02: Run Away From the Sun

03: Neon Noir

04: Loveletting

05: The Foreverlost

06: Baby Lacrimarium

07: Salute the Sanguine

08: In Trenodia

09: Heartful of Ghosts

10: Saturnine Saturnalia

11: Zener Solitaire

12: Vertigo Eyes

Head to Kerrang.com to read their cover feature, in which Ville discusses the album in-depth.

Meanwhile, watch the video for the current single, ‘Echolocate Your Love’, HERE.

VV’s headline tour – taking place next year across Europe, the UK and North America – has already sold-out across a number of cities. Get your tickets now to avoid disappointment. Tickets are available, s.

JAN – MAY 2023 ‘NEON NOIR TOUR’  

EUROPE

13.01 – Tavastia, Helsinki (sold out)

14.01 – Tavastia, Helsinki (sold out)

15.01 – Tavastia, Helsinki (sold out)

14.01 – Stodola, Warsaw

15.02 – Studio, Krakow

16.02 – LMB, Prague (sold out)

17.02 – Huxley’s Berlin (sold out)

18.02 – Fabrik, Hamburg (sold out)

20.02 – Paradiso, Amsterdam

21.02 – Batschkapp, Frankfurt (sold out)

22.02 – Komplex, Zurich

24.02 – Razzmatazz, Barcelona

25.02 – La Riviera, Madrid

26.02 – Cineteatro Capitolio, Lisbon

27.02 – Hard Club, Porto

02.03 – Alcatraz, Milan

03.03 – Backstage Werk, Munich (sold out)

04.03 – Barba Negra, Budapest

05.03 – Arena, Vienna (sold out)

07.03 – Rockhal, Esch-Sur-Alzette

08.03 – LMH, Cologne (sold out)

09.03 – Le Trabendo, Paris

UNITED KINGDOM

10.03 – O2 Academy, Bristol

11.03 – Rock City, Nottingham

13.03 – Garage, Glasgow (sold out)

14.03 – O2 Ritz, Manchester

15.03 – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London

NORTH AMERICA

3/31 – Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia

4/1 – Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia (sold out)

4/2 – Big Night Live, Boston

4/4 – Roxian Theater, Pittsburgh

4/5 – House of Blues, Cleveland

4/6 – St. Andrew’s Hall, Detroit

4/8 – Bogart’s, Cincinnati

4/9 – House of Blues, Chicago (sold out)

4/10 – House of Blues, Chicago

4/11 – Varsity Theater, Minneapolis

4/13 – The Summit Music Hall, Denver

4/14 – The Depot, Salt Lake City

4/16 – Ace of Spaces, Sacramento

4/17 – The Fillmore, San Francisco

4/18 – The Belasco, Los Angeles (sold out)

4/19 – The Belasco, Los Angeles

4/21 – House of Blues, Las Vegas

4/22 – House of Blues, San Diego

4/23 – The Van Buren, Phoenix

4/25 – House of Blues, Dallas

4/26 – Aztec Theatre, San Antonio

4/27 – House of Blues, Houston

4/28 – House of Blues, New Orleans

4/30 – House of Blues, Orlando

5/1 – Revolution Live, Ft. Lauderdale

5/3 – Buckhead Theatre, Atlanta

5/4 – Brooklyn Bowl, Nashville

5.05 – The Underground, Charlotte

5/7 – The Fillmore, Silver Spring

5/8 – Irving Plaza, New York

5/9 – Irving Plaza, New York

In the annals of 21st-century alternative rock history, there are few artists who cast a longer or more peculiar shadow than Finnish Love Metal pioneer Ville Valo. After all, his band HIM were easily among the most iconic and idiosyncratic groups of the millenium. Zealously revered, gleefully reviled but impossible to ignore, their music left an indelible mark on a worldwide legion of fans. The scarlet letters stood for His Infernal Majesty. Their founder stood for something delightedly out of step with the status quo. 

“We only hoped to temporarily redirect hard rock’s blood flow from the nether regions towards the heart”, reminisces Ville Valo, the singer, songwriter and primus motor of HIM. Judging by the monolithic presence of the Heartagram in any account of music this side of the millennium it’s apparent that he succeeded. 

Inspired by everyone from Poe to Bukowski and tinged by a penchant for perfumed Sabbathian gloom, Valo’s creative lovechild would produce eight era-defining studio releases and over ten million record sales, not forgetting a Grammy nomination, countless magazine covers, critical acclaim, and the veneration of a generation. Thus it came as no surprise that the news of a farewell tour in 2017 was greeted with shock and disbelief among devotees and endless speculation as to what or who was to take up the velvet mantle.

“As fun as the funeral rites for HIM were, it took me more than a few moons to lick my wounds in the shadow of the Heartagram and come up with an excuse to strum and hum again. Eventually I decided to put a leash on my beloved black dog and we started howling together instead of barking at each other. That’s how VV was born”.

Photo credit: Juha Mustonen

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