Engelsk stil om Rasmus og deres 15 års jubilæum

Fifteen years with Rasmus

The singer Lauri Ylönen, guitarist Pauli Rantasalmi, drummer Aki Hakala and bassist Eero Heinonen, is the names of the guys who forms the finish band, The Rasmus.
Fifteen years ago the The Rasmus played their first concert at a school in Finland’s Christmas Party in 1994. Their first album “Peep” came out in 1996 and they got some hits in Finland, with their special music. They released the next two albums Playboys and Hellofatester, in 1997 and 1998. In 1998 the drummer Janne Heiskanen left the band, and was replaced by the present drummer Aki Hakala. The other guys in The Rasmus had meet Aki because he was selling merchandise at their concerts, and they found out he was a really good drummer, and as Lauri once has said “We have stolen him from another band. Now he belongs to us! Forever!“.
After Aki joined the band the guys released a collection of the best songs from the three previous albums, and also with a new and acoustic version of one of the singles, “Liquid”, from their third album, “Hellofatester”. On the collection album there were also a cover version of “Ghosebusters”, which the guys have used as a great number to festival concerts, when the audience maybe doesn’t know all The Rasmus’ music, but they will no matter what know “Ghostbusters”.
After Janne left the band, the guys also chanced their name from just “Rasmus” to “The Rasmus”. The reason was Janne’s break, and also that there were a Swedish DJ called Rasmus, and that made confusions.
The next studioalbum was released in 2001, and was called “Into”. On this album their music had changed at bit. It had become more rock-pop music than before, and lesser crazy, energetic and fun as their previous albums. At the album was the single F-F-F-Falling which got no. 1 at the finish charts.
In 2003 came their big breakthrough album “Dead Letters” on that album was the megahit “In the shadows” which got them famous all over the world. Their next album “Hide From The sun” was out in 2005, and hits kept coming, and the guys played all over the world.
After a big pause, the guys released a new album in 2008, “Black Roses”. The Reason for the long pause, was that a lot of the guys had got kids, and all needed to have a break. At the album Black Roses the guys worked with an American producer called Desmond Child. He had heard their music, and just hoped that they wanted to work with him. They did, and he also helped to write some of the songs. Their music at Black Roses, have a little bit different sound, because of the influence from the American producer. But the guys have told that they from now, will record in their own studio.
The Rasmus is one of Finland’s most successful bands. They have released seven albums, two collections, 21 singles, eighteen music videos - alone three videos for “In the shadows” - and they have sold more than 3.5 million albums.
Now we are in 2009, and it’s fifteen years since The Rasmus played their first concert at the school. The Rasmus celebrated it, with playing at the just same school November 23rd.
The Rasmus has just released a new single, a duet with the Nightwish singer Anette Olson, and the 25th of November their new collection, “Best of The Rasmus 2001-2009” was released. On the album is the new single with the Nightwish singer, the greatest hits from 2001-2009 and also some new versions of some of the old songs. The limited edition of the best of album is a photo book with photos from The Rasmus’ time between 2001 and 2009.