I saw on Instagram how some Ville Valo/HIM fans got upset at Bam Margera speaking on when he started drinking on Steve-O podcast. He has been sober for a year and hopefully he stays that way. But this is the second time that Bam has brought up how the seeds to his issue started once he started hanging out with Ville. And both times, I don't think he blames Ville. He just states a fact, he started drinking, smoking because he really looked up to Ville. Bam was a fan who became friends with his favorite band but you can obviously see how he wanted to be just like Ville aesthetically as much as possible. He got his tattoos and you can see through out the friendship, he very much took Ville's wardrobe. But this doesn't make Ville responsible for Bam's problems and I don't think Bam has ever stated so.
Bam might of picked up the party lifestyle from Ville but being a Jackass member and then having Viva La Bam, and having the wrong crowd around him was what did him in. Ryan's death, all the people that cared about him sobering up and not wanting to be around Bam and his unpredictable drinking is just something unfortunate that happened that added to his substance abuse.
Bam helped me get more into HIM and I'm thankful for that. But that friendship was toxic, maybe even from the beginning. Drinking and partying buddies is one thing, but copying tattoos and taking clothing from the other person, developing ED to look like them, is a big problem that I think too many overlook when it comes to Bam and Ville. And Bam stating that Ville was how he started doing all those things isn't Bam blaming Ville for his future/current issues. Just an unfortunate truth.
Thursday, July 21, 2022 by Cyrielle Lebourg-Thieullent
There is an unrealistic wish, especially among right-wing people, that we should not talk about politics in music, but I don’t see how we could do otherwise.- Tobias Forge »
(Sorry if my English is bad, it's not my native language)
In my hc Zenith is performed by both Papa II and Papa III. This is the reason why it was never performed in concerts.
The single was created in 2015 at the junction of the two epochs. II is on the cover but the song itself formally belongs to Meliora era.
Papa II performs the whole song and Papa III join only in chorus. The "arrrrr" sound and the laugh belong to Papa III because these are his typical featuras. Also the lower tones in Candlemass-2016 style are by Papa III.
Just imagine how the brothers perform this song together, shoulder to shoulder.