VV, aka HIM’s Ville Valo, will be releasing his new solo album, “Neon Noir,” on January 13, 2023. The cover art and track listing for that effort can be seen below:

“Neon Noir” Track Listing:

01. “Echolocate Your Love”
02. “Run Away From The Sun”
03. “Neon Noir”
04. “Loveletting”
05. “The Foreverlost”
06. “Baby Lacrimarium”
07. “Salute The Sanguine”
08. “In Trenodia”
09. “Heartful Of Ghosts”
10. “Saturnine Saturnalia”
11. “Zener Solitaire”
12. “Vertigo Eyes”

Valo said the following about the album:

“‘Neon Noir’ is a sonic step-by-step guide on how to survive, and perhaps even enjoy, the realm of VV with its abundance of things that go bump in the night. It’s a teary mascara marathon between Robert Smith and Ozzy, with a dash of hope.”

He also added the following about the lyrical inspiration during an interview with Kerrang!:

“I wouldn’t call it ‘suicidal’, but most of the stuff was written during the pandemic, and there weren’t many rays of sun hitting me. Everybody was in the mental gutter. Times were tough. This album was the kind of like the lifebuoy for me. It gave me a reason to wake up every morning and work on something else and try to shut the world outside. When I was working on the music, maybe it was selfish to a certain extent, but also it was a matter of survival.”

“It seems that mankind needs a bit of a breather from all this shit, myself included. So I tried to put all that frustration onto paper. And if it’s love and darkness, and all sorts of things like that, that’s probably because it’s my vocabulary. Hopefully, the words have been rearranged in a fresh order this time around. But me trying to do something completely different, just because, that doesn’t make any sense to me at all.”