Killing Loneliness

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"Killing Loneliness"
Killing Loneliness.jpg
Single by HIM
from the album Dark Light
Released24 February 2006
Recorded2005
Length4:29
4:01 (Video version)
Label Sire Records
Songwriter(s) Ville Valo
Producer(s) HIM
HIM singles chronology
"Wings of a Butterfly"
(2005)
"Killing Loneliness"
(2006)
"The Kiss of Dawn"
(2007)

"Killing Loneliness" is a song by Finnish rock band HIM. It was released in February 2006, as a single from their 2005 breakthrough album, Dark Light . "Killing Loneliness", 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 , lead vocalist 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". [1] The song is playable in the 2010 video game Rock Band 3 .

Music video

There are two versions of the song's music video, a European and U.S. version, the latter of which was filmed in April 2006 and released in May. Making a guest appearance in the U.S. version of 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
    • Live versions from the gig at Philadelphia 2005.

Charts

ChartPeak
position [2]
Austrian Singles Chart56
Finnish Singles Chart2
German Singles Chart32
Irish Singles Chart45
Swiss Singles Chart44
UK Singles Chart26

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References

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  2. ""Killing Loneliness" chart positions and trajectories" . Retrieved 2008-03-27.