Ville Hermanni Valo (born november 22, 1976) is the vocalist, songwriter and frontman of the Finnish love metal band HIM.

Valo grew up in Helsinki. His father works in a sex shop and his mother is Hungarian. He has a younger brother named Jesse, a Thai boxer. In his youth he played instruments such as bass and drums in many bands until he, together with friends, formed the band HIM in 1995. He is the vocalist in HIM and writes most of the band's songs. He is also the frontman of the band. He has said in an interview that this is the way the other band members want it to be, they just want to play their instruments.

Razorblade Romance is the second album by HIM, released on 24 January 2000. It was produced by John Fryer. It is distributed by the local BMG company. All songs and lyrics on the album are composed by Ville Valo.

Razorblade Romance was the first HIM album released in the United States, in November 2003. Controversially, the album was given a Parental Advisory designation in the U.S. despite the absence of profanity or sexually explicit content, perhaps related to the song "Join Me in Death" or "Your Sweet 666" (666 has occult numerological associations, sometimes Satanic ones.)

Four versions of this album exist: the Finnish CD version with tracks one to 11 below; a German edition with two bonus tracks; a vinyl version in a run of 1200 copies, released in March 2000; and a new CD version in 2000 with new versions of "Your sweet 666" & "Wicked game"

Track listing

1. I love you
2. Poison girl
3. Join me (Album Version)
4. Right here in my arms
5. Gone with the sin
6. Razorblade kiss
7. Bury me deep inside
8. Heaven tonight
9. Death is in love with us
10. Resurrection
11. One last time
12. Sigillum diaboli
13. The 9th Circle