Author Topic: HIM Demos (Read 26741 times)

Jay · « **Reply #100 on:** June 25, 2021, 10:11:13 AM »

That reminds me of the story that a hard drive and other things were stolen from a show a few years back. I don't remember hearing anything about it after that and don't know what was on the drive or if it was ever recovered.

I don't see the band having demos just sitting in a bag backstage, but it I wonder what the contents were.

DarkSecret666 · « **Reply #101 on:** June 25, 2021, 11:45:03 AM »

That thief got caught, right? I found this:

“Today when our crew was doing the linecheck at the venue in Melbourne some filthy bastard walked into our dressing room and stole our sound engineer Brad’s backbag,” writes band affiliate Janne Tamminen on his personal Facebook page, attaching an image of the alleged thief. According to Tamminen, the sound engineer’s bag contained “two passports with work visas to the places [the band] will be going on this tour in South America, laptop, credit cards, driver’s license, ID’s [sic], [and] hard disks with the recordings from all the HIM shows last year.”

Damn I had no idea it belonged to Brad. It could be that there was no finalized stereo mixes, just raw multitracks.

Jay · « **Reply #102 on:** June 25, 2021, 12:43:55 PM »

Quote from: DarkSecret666 on June 25, 2021, 11:45:03 AM

That thief got caught, right? I found this:

“Today when our crew was doing the linecheck at the venue in Melbourne some filthy bastard walked into our dressing room and stole our sound engineer Brad’s backbag,” writes band affiliate Janne Tamminen on his personal Facebook page, attaching an image of the alleged thief. According to Tamminen, the sound engineer’s bag contained “two passports with work visas to the places [the band] will be going on this tour in South America, laptop, credit cards, driver’s license, ID’s [sic], [and] hard disks with the recordings from all the HIM shows last year.”

Damn I had no idea it belonged to Brad. It could be that there was no finalized stereo mixes, just raw multitracks.

Ah, nice...that's the incident I was referring to. I didn't know he was caught. I didn't think they'd just walk around with demos in their bags, but imagine the FLACs we could get from those live shows lol.

SIRJARVIS01 · « **Reply #103 on:** June 25, 2021, 10:12:51 PM »

when did this happen? what year?

gothicafennica · « **Reply #104 on:** June 26, 2021, 04:43:32 AM »

Quote from: SIRJARVIS01 on June 25, 2021, 10:12:51 PM

when did this happen? what year?

I wanna say 2014. I haven't heard anything about the shows since, but what are the chances that he didn't copy the hard drives before he got caught? I don't know if he was a fan or just some local loser, but surely he was smart enough to do that first before the popo came and took him away.

DarkSecret666 · « **Reply #105 on:** June 26, 2021, 06:59:57 AM »

Yeah, Feb 27 2014. Copying all that material would take hours man. I hope the guy got caught before he got home.

gothicafennica · « **Reply #106 on:** June 26, 2021, 12:08:46 PM »

Quote from: DarkSecret666 on June 26, 2021, 06:59:57 AM

Yeah, Feb 27 2014. Copying all that material would take hours man. I hope the guy got caught before he got home.

He had the time to do it before he got caught. If he wasn't a fan and he did copy everything we'd probably know about it by now though because he'd be looking to sell the shows and someone would probably blab about it.

SIRJARVIS01 · « **Reply #107 on:** June 26, 2021, 07:35:13 PM »

I imagine the files straight off the board would be HUGE to copy. I also think there were a lot of shows to copy as well. If he did copy them, I imagine he'd be scared shitless to leak them since the managment will know who had access to those shows. It would add more to his wrap sheet lol
Also, I didn't know brad still worked with them at the time

DarkSecret666 · « **Reply #108 on:** June 27, 2021, 07:38:02 AM »

Quote from: SIRJARVIS01 on June 26, 2021, 07:35:13 PM

I imagine the files straight off the board would be HUGE to copy. I also think there were a lot of shows to copy as well. If he did copy them, I imagine he'd be scared shitless to leak them since the managment will know who had access to those shows. It would add more to his wrap sheet lol
Also, I didn't know brad still worked with them at the time

They did 65 gigs in 2013 and the first three from 2014 were probably on those hard drives too. We can pretend that the average playing time was 70min and 24 mixer channels were used on each gig. If Brad saved every performance as 24-bit/44,1kHz WAV, it'd almost fill an entire 2TB drive.

Brad's last gig was in China 2014.

SIRJARVIS01 · « **Reply #109 on:** June 27, 2021, 01:40:15 PM »

Oh so did brad to do the mixes for the new 2014 vinyl bonus tracks? I imagine someone else did those considering they sound very different from stuff he's done in the past (2005 ep bonus tracks, VD live tracks)

even if he had time to copy them, he would still have to transfer those files to a DAW then mix it down
, which I would imagine would be too much work for just a backpack snatcher. How did they catch the dude anyway? Was someone able to identify them through the FB page?

gothicafennica · « **Reply #110 on:** June 27, 2021, 04:22:27 PM »

Quote from: SIRJARVIS01 on June 27, 2021, 01:40:15 PM

even if he had time to copy them, he would still have to transfer those files to a DAW then mix it down
, which I would imagine would be too much work for just a backpack snatcher.

I wouldn't underestimate a criminal. The dude had a plan for whatever he was gonna find in that dressing room before he even went snooping around in there. Whether he had enough time to follow through with that plan is the question since I can't remember now how long it took for the cops to find him, but surely he knew that there were cameras and eventually he was probably going to get caught. There would need to be some sort of payoff in it for him to justify the risk. Unless we have it all wrong and he was just going camping early in the morning with his buddies and needed something to carry supplies in since the stores were all closed.

Stigmata93 · « **Reply #111 on:** August 30, 2023, 02:14:33 PM »

witches and other night fears has been located liber616 has it on metalarchivesforum.com

Stigmata93 · « **Reply #112 on:** August 30, 2023, 02:15:35 PM »

track listing is black candles, dont fear the reaper, sleepwalking past hope, the heartless, warlock moon, highlands of hemlock, and blood and fear we must ask him all

PTEraser · « **Reply #113 on:** August 30, 2023, 04:07:48 PM »

Does he have the files? We need to hear that!!!

Stigmata93 · « **Reply #114 on:** August 30, 2023, 04:12:52 PM »

yes we do

Stigmata93 · « **Reply #115 on:** August 30, 2023, 04:15:44 PM »

currently we have kafferi, witches and other night fears, and some say we have something called wtf

Stigmata93 · « **Reply #116 on:** August 30, 2023, 04:26:09 PM »

miltos has unga which makes me angry but i dont really want that one

DarkSecret666 · « **Reply #117 on:** August 31, 2023, 02:59:54 PM »

Quote from: Stigmata93 on August 30, 2023, 02:14:33 PM

witches and other night fears has been located liber616 has it on metalarchivesforum.com

Come on man, please calm down. No active member here or on Reddit has what you're looking for. "Liber" on whatever old forum doesn't have Witches, a random 4/5 rating doesn't mean anything. That's easy to say because the tracklist is totally made up bullshit. There was no Sleepwalking Past Hope or even Don't Fear The Reaper cover in 1992, obviously.

WTF is WTF??? Must be a joke. Synnin Viemää book has a photo showing the scans of that 1992 "Unga Kaskelottär" tape, all the info comes from there. I believe it's long lost. It's not HIM anyway. And I'm 93% sure that we will never get to hear any of these. Even if some old friend of the band from Finland had stuff and they shared it, most would sound like total crap anyways because tapes go bad in 30 years and the recordings aren't superior to begin with.

MiLToS_666 · « **Reply #118 on:** August 31, 2023, 03:57:03 PM »

Stigmata93 = stigmat93

You've made a new user account for what?
Seriously, I don't have any of this shit, nothing. Stop asking me, stop sending me PM's, you've sent me 50+ messages.
WTF means WHAT THE FUCK dude, I was joking and you just don't get it! COME ON!

DarkSecret666 · « **Reply #119 on:** August 31, 2023, 03:59:17 PM »

Why are you making multiple accounts?

Some random Liber from that website from the ice age DOES NOT have it, trust me. They would have corrected the tracklist, even the photo is wrong. It doesn't even say anything about them owning it.

Stigmata93 · « **Reply #120 on:** August 31, 2023, 05:51:58 PM »

all my friends found it hes authentic hit him up and convince him to put it on youtube

Stigmata93 · « **Reply #121 on:** August 31, 2023, 05:53:13 PM »

all of it is correct according to my sources seven tracks and the album photo is also correct but hes not convinced by me as im not convincing by any means

DarkSecret666 · « **Reply #122 on:** September 01, 2023, 11:45:04 AM »

Sources? Incorrect sources.

"Album photo" is the cover of a BOOTLEG release called "This Is Only The Beginning" (fan title). The photo of Ville is from 1996, 666 Ways To Love photoshoot. Not 1992!

Stigmata93 · « **Reply #123 on:** September 01, 2023, 04:47:20 PM »

not really the photo was never confirmed just ask ville to leak the album for everyone in the world

MiLToS_666 · « **Reply #124 on:** September 02, 2023, 07:59:52 AM »

Since you're really good with asking and demanding, why don't you just do it yourself?
Heck, you can even contact every single band member about it!