HIM fan club

The Heartagram was originally created as a logo by the self described "Love Metal" band HIM. It combines a heart with a pentagram, and according to band members, represents the juxtaposition of love and hate/anger, or life and death. The symbol is sported as a tattoo by many HIM fans, including professional skater and "Jackass" stuntman Bam Margera. The idea of the heartagram belongs to Ville Valo. It is a design based on a heart and the pentagram, and it symbolizes Love and Evil. It combines these two elements, in the way the album titles do. Ville has a tattoo of the heartagram on the back of his neck, Mige on his left hand and Gas on his left leg. For the album Love Metal, the heartagram is placed inside a circle. As Ville says, this was done because this brings forward the design and completes it, but does not mean that if it isn't in a circle, it's not a heartagram. Like with other older symbols- e.g. pentagram- that are surrounded by a circle. In the music video of Buried live by Love, a flashback is made, in the time where the idea of the heartagram was conceived. In this, the pentagram seems to be connected with a heart- the heart from Greatest Lovesongs Volume 666. Many people associate the heartagram with Bam Margera, thinking it to be his personal logo, but it's not. In truth, Bam has legally licensed use of the heartagram from Valo. Though Bam has met and become friends with Valo and even directed four of the band's videos (and his own version of ?Heartache Every Moment?), that is the full extent of Bam's personal involvement with HIM. He is simply a big fan who adorns himself with their logo to show his love and appreciation of the band.