what does the finnish band, him, mean in their sign with the hearts in the circle?

Question

i am wanting to get a tattoo. i like him's emblem but i want to know if their is meaning behind it.

Answer 1

Heartagram is the name of a trademarked symbol of HIM. It is a cross between a heart and an inverted pentagram. The heartagram has been falsely associated with satanism, so some believe HIM is satanic, which is false according to Valo. The heartagram symbolizes the contrast or perfect balance between life and death,love and hatred,darkness and light, good and evil, or even love and death together. Valo has said that "the heartagram stands for HIM as a band, as an entity, and for 'love metal' in general,".[2]

Many fans of the band have heartagram tattoos or tattoos of other HIM emblems (such as the single heart on Valo's right wrist). Fan-submitted photos of such tattoos decorated the lyric booklet for the limited edition of Dark Light.

Ville Valo has allowed his close friend, Jackass star, professional skateboarder Bam Margera share the license on the image and is accordingly entitled to use it for his promotional purposes, for example mostly all of his Adio shoes have the symbol. Because of that many people think it's Bam's logo, but even so that has been profitable for the band because it gives them a lot of publicity, and according to Ville in one of his interviews, more people know the band because of the symbol and Bam than because of their music.

Answer 2

It's called a "Heartagram", as in Pentagram and is actually half a heart and half a pentagram. it goes in correlation with HIM's style of music which they self proclaim as "Love Metal". The hard and the soft, the sacred and the profane, the angel and demon entwined.

It makes a great tattoo by the way...

Answer 3

The heartagram is supposed to be the balance between life and death, good and evil and so fourth. It's meaning has more in common the yin-yang than the pentagram.

Answer 4

its a sign of homosexuality