AFTER HIS SO-CALLED
“Schlager years” with fellow countrymen Agents post-Him, the lovelorn dark prince Ville Valo has returned to the heavy side with his new solo record, Neon Noir. Talking to Hammer from his home studio, he’s as grandiloquent as ever, but with a twisted humour – one minute he spouts the kind of ornate turns of phrase you’d expect from a man with the eyes of Edgar Allan Poe tattooed on his back, the next he’s giggling like a teenager over a double entendre. There were many declarations of love for metal’s biggest romantic to sift through, so we put your burning questions to the man himself to answer with his signature wit and a wicked gleam in his eye.
Would you rather be a ghost or a vampire?
Michal Edwards, email
“Who wouldn’t want to be a vampire for a day? Sucking some blood, having cool clothes… I do own a cape already, so
