Dark Matters (The Rasmus album)

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Dark Matters
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Studio album by
Released6 October 2017 (2017-10-06)
Length47:52
Label Playground Music Scandinavia
Producer The Family
The Rasmus chronology
The Rasmus
(2012)
Dark Matters
(2017)
Rise
(2022)
Singles from Dark Matters
  1. "Paradise"
    Released: March 31, 2017 (2017-03-31)
  2. "Silver Night"
    Released: August 25, 2017 (2017-08-25)
  3. "Nothing"
    Released: September 15, 2017 (2017-09-15)
  4. "Wonderman"
    Released: September 22, 2017 (2017-09-22)
  5. "Something in the Dark"
    Released: September 29, 2017 (2017-09-29)

Dark Matters is the ninth album by the Finnish rock band the Rasmus, which was released in Finland on 8 October 2017. [1] It is their first album after five years of inactivity, as a continuation of their previous album The Rasmus (2012).

Contents

Background

Dark Matters is The Rasmus's first album in eight years to be released by Playground Music, after Best of The Rasmus 2001–2009 . The album was originally announced for a 22 September release, but was delayed to 2 October.

A music video for "Wonderman" was directed by Jesse Haaja and premiered on YouTube on 26 September 2017.

On 1 December, of the same year the official video of "Silver Night" directed by Vesa Manninen was released, in which they show us a solitary robot in a house. It is the first official video where the members of the band do not appear.

On 26 January 2018, a new official video of The Rasmus is released: "Nothing", which was directed by the bassist of the group Eero Heinonen.

During the tour of the group in Russia in March of this year, the band filmed a video for the song "Empire".

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lauri Ylönen, Pauli Rantasalmi, Joy Deb, Linnea Deb and Anton Hård.

No.TitleLength
1."Paradise"3:29
2."Something in the Dark"3:30
3."Wonderman"3:23
4."Nothing"3:42
5."Empire"3:32
6."Crystalline"3:14
7."Black Days"3:36
8."Silver Night"3:34
9."Delirium"3:22
10."Dragons into Dreams"3:33
Limited Edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
11."Teardrops"3:15
12."Supernova"3:21
13."Drum"3:16
14."Holy Grail"3:05

Personnel

The Rasmus

References

  1. "New Album 'DARK MATTERS': DARK MATTERS release date moved to October 6th. | PledgeMusic". Archived from the original on 2017-09-27. Retrieved 2018-02-11.