| Killing Loneliness | |
| Cover: | Killing_Loneliness.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | HIM |
| Album: | Dark Light |
| Released: | 24 February 2006 |
| Recorded: | 2005 |
| Length: | 4:29 4:01 (Video version) |
| Label: | Sire Records |
| Producer: | HIM |
| Prev Title: | Wings of a Butterfly |
| Prev Year: | 2005 |
| Next Title: | The Kiss of Dawn |
| Next Year: | 2007 |
"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.
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".[1] The song is playable in the 2010 video game Rock Band 3.
There are two versions of the song's music video, a European and U.S. version, the latter of which was filmed in April 2006 and released in May. Making a guest appearance in the U.S. version of the video is tattoo artist Kat Von D, known from the reality television series LA Ink and Miami Ink.
| Chart | Peak position[2] |
|---|---|
| Austrian Singles Chart | 56 |
| Finnish Singles Chart | 2 |
| German Singles Chart | 32 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 45 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 44 |
| UK Singles Chart | 26 |