The love metal pioneers HIM have signed a licensing deal with Universal Music Germany’s Vertigo Berlin imprint and are set to release their latest album Tears On Tape internationally on April 29.

On Tears On Tape, the follow-up to Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice from 2010, the band collaborates again with their longtime producer Hiili Hiilesmaa and Tim Palmer who mixed the album at Assault and Battery Studios in London. 

Following the album release the band will head for a Europe and US tour in April.

Tour dates

22.4. Postbahnhof - Berlin, Germany

23.4. Gloria - Cologne, Germany

26.4. Dingwalls - London, UK

3.5. House of Blues - Los Angeles, US

4.5. House of Blues - Los Angeles, US

5.5. Fillmore - San Francisco, US

8.5. House of Blues - Chicago, US

9.5. Danforth Music Hall - Toronto, Canada

10.5. Irving Plaza - New York, US

11.5. Irving Plaza - New York, US

12.5. Theatre of Living Arts - Philadelphia, US

1.6. Ursrynalia Student Fest - Warsaw, Poland

12.6. Maxidrom - Moscow, Russia

14.6. Download Festival - UK

15.6. Nova Rock - Austria

10.7. Mera Luna Festival - Germany 

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