was held at the Helsinki Art Museum in June 2017, featuring new photographs of the band rehearsing for the farewell tour. In November 2017, the exhibition was held at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York City. The same month, HIM appeared on the cover of Metal Hammer and gave an interview about their decision to retire. Setlist For the setlist, HIM performed songs from all eight of their studio albums as well as their 1996 EP 666 Ways to Love: Prologue. The main set stayed largely the same throughout the tour; "Resurrection" was featured early on, but was eventually dropped from the set. "When Love and Death Embrace" and a cover of Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell" were the major mainstays of the encore, with "Pretending", "Razorblade Kiss" and "Sleepwalking Past Hope" occasionally appearing as well. {{hidden | headercss = background: #ccccff; font-size: 100%; width: 55%; | contentcss = text-align: left; font-size: 100%; width: 55%; | header = Setlist from 1 July 2017 at Tuska Open Air Metal Festival in Helsinki, Finland | content = "Buried Alive by Love" "Heartache Every Moment" "Your Sweet Six Six Six" "Resurrection" "The Kiss of Dawn" "The Sacrament" "Tears on Tape" "Wings of a Butterfly" "Stigmata Diaboli" "Gone With the Sin" "Bleed Well" "It’s All Tears (Drown in This Love)" "Wicked Game" "Killing Loneliness" "Poison Girl" "Heartkiller" "Join Me in Death" "In Joy and Sorrow" "Right Here in My Arms" "The Funeral of Hearts" Encore "Rebel Yell" "When Love and Death Embrace" }} {{hidden | headercss = background: #ccccff; font-size: 100%; width: 55%; | contentcss = text-align: left; font-size: 100%; width: 55%; | header = Setlist from 31 December 2017 at Helldone in Helsinki, Finland | content = "Buried Alive by Love" "Heartache Every Moment" "Your Sweet Six Six Six" "The Kiss of Dawn" "The Sacrament" "Tears on Tape" "Wings of a Butterfly" "Gone With the Sin" "Soul on Fire" "Wicked Game" "Killing Loneliness" "Bleed Well" "Poison Girl" "Heartkiller" "Join Me in Death" "Stigmata Diaboli" "In Joy and Sorrow" "Right Here in My Arms" "The Funeral of Hearts" Encore "Rebel Yell" "When Love and Death Embrace" }} Reception Most shows on HIM's farewell tour were sold-out, and the tour dates drew a total audience of more than 110,000 people. The tour was generally well received by critics. Eve Smallman of the Nottingham Post said that HIM "truly went out with a 'bang'". The overall