The Rasmus would like to thank you for all your support to make 2004 such a successful one. We’ve been travelling the world, met so many new friends and still cannot believe how much experience we gained within this year. We like to thank all the fans who helped us making 2004 such a good one! …read more »
The video for the single “Life Burns!” has been shot not long ago in Tallinn. In the new video Lauri lights all the three cellists on fire. The frontman of The Rasmus has also write the lyrics to the song.
Finnish Friendship: Apocalyptica are on for 8 years, but a real hit was made possible recently by their mates: Ville from HIM and Lauri from The Rasmus are singing on the top-ten ballad “Bittersweet” and do also have main parts in the spooky video.
Like in trance HIM-singer Ville Valo (28) and The Rasmus-chief Lauri Ylönen (25) are staring at their Ouija-board (an element to connect with the realm of the dead, as seen in the pictures up right) to read the message from the beyond. …read more »
Music Reviews
Dead Letters was described as Solid Melody driven Alternative Rock.
The Rasmus • Dead Letters
Finland’s number one alternative rockers, The Rasmus, invade the U.S. with their latest release, Dead Letters. The eleven tracks are comprised of hard-edged, guitar-oriented, melody-driven rock with infectious choruses. Singer Lauri Ylönen, one of the best voices in rock today, flaunts his multi-ranged vocals and hits every note …read more »
The Rasmus has garnered a huge fan base, critical acclaim and chart-topping hits in their homeland of Finland. With their latest album, Dead Letters, this rock quartet takes a much darker direction and sets out to bring their vibrant and hard-edged music to the shores of America.
When and how did the band first form?
We knew each other since high school. We were just a group of freaks who wanted to shock other students and pull practical jokes. …read more »
Thanks to bands as THE RASMUS, this european country can say that music is in his list of exports.
Some countries became global icons for things such as food, art, arquitecture or natural resources.
Finland thanks to bands as The Rasmus can soon become well known because of the massive production of successful rockers.
With 5.8 million people and 338 km of land, this country that shares border with Russia, has included rock in its list of export products among the electronic industry, chemestry and metals. …read more »
How was your weekend?
ANYTHING HAPPEN? Manage to meet any bands, live it up in a five star hotel or be chauffeur driven around town? Thought not. If, however, you had been Alastair Brown or Chris Marsden, winners of our ‘Freakiest Weekend’ competition, that’s exactly the weekend you would have had. Courtesy of Nik Naks, the freakiest crisps around, your Friday would have meant being flown to Glasgow with £300 in your back pocket. …read more »
1 The Rasmus
Finland’s Europop goth-urchins go supernova
The overwelming sucess of The Rasmus in 2004 was simply the result of fitting s plush new frame onto an old, classic print back in 1987,two rock bands ruled the charts Bon Jovi from the US and Europe from Sweden.
People liked their music because it was accesible and non threating: the accetable, kids TV face of old school rock. …read more »
After successful cooperations with artists like Nina Hagen, Sandra Nasic (Guano Apes) or Linda Sunblad (Lambretta) the Finns of Apocalyptica have now had the idea for a very special line-up for their single Bittersweet. No-one less than Ville Valo (HIM) and Lauri Ylönen (The Rasmus) visited their cello-playing country mates in the studio to assist them with their charismatic voices.
“This is the first time we’ve made a real cooperation, as Lauri and Ville wrote the lyrics and Eicca the music, while all the other times before the singers only interpreted our instrumentals”, …read more »
The Rasmus Hellofasite is the italian portal & fan club entirely dedicated to the finnish rockband of The Rasmus.
Online since the 30th of January 2005 and accurately updated, in this website it's possible to find all the important things to know about the band: all the latest official news, exclusives, the fully discography with all the different editions of all the albums and singles, all the lyrics and much more ...read more »
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