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Everytime it gets a minor chord [Austria]

The new CD of the emotionalism-popper The Rasmus
If the success of the band is measured by the number of imitators, then The Rasmus is a very successful group meanwhile. Especially in finland, home of the quartet, many groups tried to rev up with the Rasmus-prescription, after the break through of the act with the song “In The Shadows” (2004). Darkness, melancholy, melodramatic-this sells. “I even was asked to produce such a band”, frontman Lauri Ylönen tells in kult-interview. “When I was told that the music is a mix between The Rasmus and HIM, I said: Fuck you. Why can’t you try something new?”

New album
But it isn’t like that that Ylönen has invented his own band new: On “Hide From The Sun”, the new Album of the group, which will be released tomorrow, will be sang fervent about love and immorality again, clouds of sound will be whipped across the land. “It’s not my fault-whenever I grab a guitar, I play a minor chord”, Lauri says. Actually the songs didn’t come up in not even such a dark mood: “Most of them we wrote on tour. You feel stressed, tired, a bit sad-but happy. That’s good for creativity.” The aim of the band was, in pieces “to unite the beauty and the beast”, the singer says. “There ever should be something loving, soft, which is combinated with something hard, heavy. That’s what our mood describes the best.”
To show these extremes better, in the new lyrics the death is conjured up, if all is about saying goodbye; the beauty appears as “sleeping swan”. “I don’t really speak about the death in the songs”, Lauri explains his love for metaphers. “Mostly we tell the reality. We just make it more colourful, in the why that we are using some pictures. And it can’t be kitschy enough.”

11 September 2005
Magazine: Kult
Translation by: kaddi
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