THEY DON’T MAKE ’em like Ville Valo anymore. The velvet-throated vocalist has been a bona fide icon ever since his band Him emerged in the early 90s, cut the emotional heart out of 80s goth metal and laid it, still beating, on the table, inspiring his own decadent genre, Love Metal, and a thousand Heartagram tattoos in the process. And decades on from that initial seduction, there’s been no one like him since.
When we last met the singer, though, he had well and truly fallen out of love with the band that he had
