Killing Loneliness
"Killing Loneliness" | ||||
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Single by HIM | ||||
from the album Dark Light | ||||
Released | 24 February 2006 | |||
Recorded | 2005 | |||
Genre | Gothic rock | |||
Length | 4:29 4:01 (Video version) | |||
Label | Sire Records | |||
Songwriter(s) | Ville Valo | |||
Producer(s) | HIM | |||
HIM singles chronology | ||||
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"Killing Loneliness" is a song by Finnish rock band HIM. It was released in February 2006, as a single from their 2005 breakthrough album, Dark Light. "Killing Loneliness", along with "Wings of a Butterfly", is one of the band's best known songs in the United States.
On the 11 May 2006 episode of Loveline, lead vocalist 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".[1] The song is playable in the 2010 video game Rock Band 3.
Music video
There are two versions of the song's music video, a European and U.S. version, the latter of which was filmed in April 2006 and released in May. Making a guest appearance in the U.S. version of the video is tattoo artist Kat Von D, known from the reality television series LA Ink and Miami Ink.
Track listing
- Finnish track listing
- "Killing Loneliness" – 4:29
- "Wings of a Butterfly" (live) – 3:26
- "Play Dead" (live) – 4:00
- German track listing
- "Killing Loneliness" – 4:29
- "The Cage" – 4:17
- "Wings of a Butterfly" (live) – 3:26
- "Under the Rose" (live) – 3:55
- "Killing Loneliness" (video) - 4:01
- Japanese track listing (EP)
- "Killing Loneliness" – 4:29
- "Under the Rose" (live) – 3:55
- "Wings of a Butterfly" (live) – 3:26
- "Play Dead" (live) – 4:00
- "Vampire Heart" (live) – 5:13
- "The Cage" (Album version) – 4:17
- UK track listing
- "Killing Loneliness" – 4:29
- "Under the Rose" (live) – 3:55
- Live versions from the gig at Philadelphia 2005.
Charts
Chart | Peak position[2] |
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Austrian Singles Chart | 56 |
Finnish Singles Chart | 2 |
German Singles Chart | 32 |
Irish Singles Chart | 45 |
Swiss Singles Chart | 44 |
UK Singles Chart | 26 |
References
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- Mige
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- Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
- Razorblade Romance
- Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
- Love Metal
- Dark Light
- Venus Doom
- Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice
- Tears on Tape
- And Love Said No: The Greatest Hits 1997–2004
- Uneasy Listening Vol. 1 & 2
- XX – Two Decades of Love Metal
- 666 Ways to Love: Prologue
- Lashes to Ashes, Lust to Dust: A Vinyl Retrospective '96–'03
- "Wicked Game"
- "Join Me in Death"
- "Pretending"
- "The Funeral of Hearts"
- "Buried Alive by Love"
- "The Sacrament"
- "Solitary Man"
- "Wings of a Butterfly"
- "Killing Loneliness"
- "The Kiss of Dawn"
- "Heartkiller"
- "Strange World"
- The Video Collection: 1997–2003
- Love Metal Archives Vol. I
- Digital Versatile Doom