rasmus

The Rasmus are a finnish rock group, who have actually been around for quite a long time. I think maybe 10 years or something??? Recently been discover by me, after watching the fucking excellent 'In the Shadwos' video on Kerrange and Skuzz. Their new album, now released in England is 'Dead Letter' so now hannah no longer has to suffer not knowing their name of the album! The pictures on the top half of this page shows the band rehearsing or the video.Lars is the lead singer, who is fucking amazing! I think for 'in the shadows', the group made him smoke fuck loads of ciggys to make his voice so harsh, as that was the whole style they were going for, obviously.

What a lovely picture of Lars!! So much power put into his singing! What a prat he looks.......lol. Atleast he hasn't got bleached blonde anymore!

The Rasmus have been around for 10 years, and only now with their hard work has it finally paid off, and they have now become international best sellars, with their catchy and meaningfull music.However, really Lauri, the hair?

The Pictures above are all shots of 'In the Shadows', the finnish version I believe. (The english is better!)

Albums;
Dead Letters 2003
Into 2001
Hell of a collection 2001
Hell of a tester 1998
Playboy 1997
Peep 1996

To follow up a monster of an album like "Into" isn't an easy task, but I'm glad to say that The Rasmus has done it with style. "Dead Letters" is the perfect successor, which shows that the band has matured. The sound is a bit heavier, darker and moodier, but the hooks and the melodies are still there. The production has been handled by the swedish "duo" of Mikael Nord Andersson and Martin Hansen again, and they have done a great job. The band will have to cut a few corners live though, as some of the studio arrangements would require a couple of extra players to stand in.
"First Day Of My Life" displays the stregths of the band quite nicely: intresting, contemporary arrangement, excellent vocal melodies and a catchy chorus. The same could be said about most of the other songs - Playground Music shouldn't have trouble finding potential hit singles. Indeed, they've already scored big with "In The Shadows", which was used in a hit movie "Pahat Pojat". The radio stations have been trying hard to play it to death for a few weeks now. Other candidates to end up high in the singles charts include the irresistably catchy "Guilty", the moody "Still Standing" and "First Day Of My Life", to name a few. Basically every song could be a single, maybe except for "Not Like The Other Girls", which is a bit long at almost 6 minutes, and doesn't really work as well as the other songs.

Othe songs that I want to mention are "Time To Burn", a song that reminds me a bit of Harem Scarem, "The One I Love" with its' hard-hitting chorus and the beautiful closing number "Funeral Song", not forgetting the powerpop of "Back In The Picture" and "In My Life"...I think I've mentioned them all now!

I know some people are going to complain about the length of the album (10 songs, 39:50), but I won't. I'll take a short album with ten songs of this calibre over a 15-track album with half of it being filler material anyday.

The Finnish press has compared this band to Bon Jovi a lot, a while the similiarities aren't obvious, it could be said that this is the kind of music BJ should - and could - be doing, if they weren't forcefeeding us those second-rate ballads of theirs. This, dear readers, IS the New Breed of Melodic Rock.

Into was the first album in which Rasmus, became the rasmus.
The Rasmus is back and the boys have changed their name (added "The" in front of Rasmus), label, grown up and made their best album to date.

This is the bands fourth effort and it real shows that the boys have grown up and it shines through in the music. The hit song here is "F-F-F-Falling" which is being played on the radio here a lot and it is a hit with a capital H. The whole album is solid and there isn't really a weak song here at all. Some other songs worth of mentioning are "Madness", "Bullet" and "Small Town".

This not the same kind of funky stuff they have previously been known for and the influence of Red Hot Chili Peppers is not so strong anymore. I think it is a good way for the guys to go ro. This style fits them perfectly. They are surely going to get more new fans with this record. One of the best albums this year of what I have I heard. These guys need to get a lot of exposure. Now I only hope that my other favorite finnish teenage band Fake comes out with something really special. Hopefully my opinions give them some ideas...

The Rasmus is the band I'm very "Into" at the moment!
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www.therasmus.com or www.hyperlaunch.com

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