Interview with Lauri [Norway]

After 11 years as a band, The Rasmus got a monsterhit with “In The Shadows” and sold over 1.5 million copies of the album “Dead Letters.”
The Helsinki-based band had at that time released four albums, and were big in their home-country.
With “Dead Letters” everything changed.
They got placements on the Top 10-charts in 11 countries, and suddenly they had the song which opened up for a market way bigger than the deep Finnish forests. September 12th is the releasedate for the bands 6th album, “Hide From The Sun” and leadsinger Lauri Ylönen was obvious full of expectations when we met him in Oslo this summer.
“The main elements on the new record are the same as before; It’s catchy, and our music is still guitarbased”. He says.

It seems like you’re flirting alot with gothrock, and maybe even more now than earlier?
“We have always been fascinated by the gothic. I can write lyrics our from picturing a beautiful butterfly, or thinking about the scense from LOTR-movies when the orcs are running through the forests.”

In The Shadows 2
Most bands in TR’s situation wuold have hidden all tracks after a repetition of the previous album. But Lauri and co has actually done the exact opposite. Lauri has let the theme from the hit “In The Shadows” roll a bit further.
“I attacked the same feeling from that song, but from a different angle. In “ITS” I ask a lot of questions in the lyrics, and now after alot of things have happened to me on the personal plan, I feel that I had more answers to give. This is something I do with alot of our songs. Even if they don’t sound the same musically, many of the songs got a common link.”
Every band who experiences the same as TR, gets the same question:

Did you ever feel the pressure?
And Lauri admits he’s had cold feet.
“I’ve become a more serious person, and more carefull. I would like to keep the innocence, and the almost childish approach when being in a band. Many people asked if there were alot of pressure involved, but there weren’t when we had made the songs. We already had 20 songs ready when we went to the studio. It wasn’t before we got close to the end of the mixing that I got nervous. It was a scary thought to think that the album would be available for everyone. Many of the lyrics are about that, that we just want to make music and why everything has become so serious. A part of me wants to hide and another part wants to be a rockstar.”

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