Killing Loneliness

"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.

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

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". The song is playable in the 2010 video game Rock Band 3.

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