¤ Though it's not exclusive (and old news by now), I'm too lazy to post it on the main page, so here it goes...

Ville will appear in the new Apocalyptica video "Bitter Sweet." The video is directed by Antti Jokinen who has done videos for Beyonce, Nightwish, Shania Twain and Celine Dion. The video was supposed to be shot in Romania but was moved to Forssa and Helsinki. The final edit will be made in L.A. and it should be out by November 3rd.

Here's a picture of Ville with the boys of Apocalyptica. (Credit: ChrKneffel)

¤ For the people who like to know what day it is, you can get a 2005 HIM (read "Ville") calendar from EMP. We'll have scans of the calendar soon.

¤ Orkus has published a 176 page book about HIM that features unpublished pictures (from Ville's on archive) and exclusive interviews. To order your copy click here.

¤ For those attending the Halloween show this year, you may want to dress up. There's a contest going on where the best dressed person will get to meet Ville after the show.

That's it for the news...

¤ Site News

¤ I probably should have mentioned this earlier, but our host is having a friendly contest to see who can pull in the most hits...so, although I hate whoring myself out...I want you to help us rank in the Top 10. Right now we're #145, so we have a long way to go. Vote now! We may be #145, but at least we're kicking the Persian Harry Potter site's ass!

¤ Downloads

I promised you a few downloads and I shall keep my word. Here are the main rules: These links are only for you...not anyone else. You can download it and then send it to whoever you want, but do NOT give out the password to anyone. If a link is found on another board, your grandma's house, your baby daddy's crib...etc., the links will be killed upon sight.

Oh, and you only have about 48 hours to download all this crap. I can't keep them up for long or I'd have to move into a box just to afford the bandwidth. Sometime Monday morning, they'll be removed.

Note: These are *Zip files, so when you download them, just change the extension from .sac to .zip

Chesterfield Cafe 2003 (Full Video)

Taubertal Festival 2003 (Full Video)

Too Happy to Be Alive (Mp3, for those who missed it)

M'era Luna Festival 2002 (Audio)

Overdrive 1998 (Audio)

If you have suggestions for next month's Downloads...I'm all ears.

¤ That's it for this issue. If it wasn't everything you thought it would be, please feel free to .