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Thursday September 9, 2010

Event Details

Tickets $36.00 + S/C (presale online purchase incl digital copy of new album Screamworks)
on sale FRIDAY FEBRUARY 5 at 10 AM at UNIONEVENTS.COM, all Ticketmaster outlets, charge by phone (403) 777-0000 or Ticketmaster.ca

Finlands hard-rock heroes HIM have announced that they will tour North America this spring in support of their upcoming new album Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice, which will be released by Sire Records on February 9th, 2010.

During the fan presale starting on January 21st, every ticket purchased online will include a digi-tal copy download of HIMs new album for a special price. Ticketmaster will be sending the link and information to purchasers to redeem the music. Tickets purchased at physical outlets will not qualify for this offer. Regular tickets without the album offer will be available upon the gen-eral onsale on Friday February 5th.

HIMs new album, Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice was recorded at The Lair in Los Angeles. The album was produced by Matt Squire (Taking Back Sunday, The Used, Saosin) and mixed by Neal Avron (Linkin Park, Weezer, Fall Out Boy). The video for Heart-killer, the albums first single, premiered on MySpace on January 8th.

Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice is HIMs seventh studio album and the follow-up to 2007s Venus Doom, which debuted at No. 12 in the U.S. and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Boxed/Special Limited Edition Packaging. In 2007, HIM, which is Ville Valo (vocals), Mige (bass), Linde (guitar), Burton (keyboards), and Gas (drums) supported Metallica in Europe before joining the Linkin Park-headlined Projekt Revolution tour across America, and headlined its own U.S. theater tour. The bands 2005 album Dark Light has the distinction of be-ing the first album by a Finnish band to be certified gold in the U.S.

For more about HIM, please visit their official website, www.heartagram.com.