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Killing Loneliness

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Released
  
1 February 2006

Recorded
  
2005

Format
  
CD single

Label
  
Sire Records

Genre
  
Gothic rock, alternative metal, symphonic metal

Length
  
4:29 4:01 (Video Version)

"Killing Loneliness" is a song released by the Finnish band HIM, released in February 2006 in Germany and in April in the UK as a single from their 2005 breakthrough Dark Light. The song, along with "Wings of a Butterfly", is one of the band's best known songs in the United States.

Contents

On the 11 May 2006 episode of Loveline, 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". This song is playable in Rock Band 3.

Video

There are two versions of the song's music video: a European and U.S. version. The U.S. version of "Killing Loneliness" was filmed in April 2006 and released in May. Making a guest appearance in the video is tattoo artist Kat Von D, known from the reality television series LA Ink and Miami Ink.

Track listing

Finnish track listing
  1. "Killing Loneliness" – 4:29
  2. "Wings of a Butterfly" (live) – 3:26
  3. "Play Dead" (live) – 4:00
German track listing
  1. "Killing Loneliness" – 4:29
  2. "The Cage" – 4:17
  3. "Wings of a Butterfly" (live) – 3:26
  4. "Under the Rose" (live) – 3:55
  5. "Killing Loneliness" (video) - 4:01
Japanese track listing EP
  1. "Killing Loneliness" – 4:29
  2. "Under the Rose" (live) – 3:55
  3. "Wings of a Butterfly" (live) – 3:26
  4. "Play Dead" (live) – 4:00
  5. "Vampire Heart" (live) – 5:13
  6. "The Cage" (Album Version) – 4:17
UK track listing
  1. "Killing Loneliness" – 4:29
  2. "Under the Rose" (live) – 3:55
  2. Live versions from the gig at Philadelphia 2005.

References

Killing Loneliness Wikipedia
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