Hide from the Sun

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Hide from the Sun
Studio album by The Rasmus
Released	September 12, 2005 (EU) October 10, 2006 (USA)
Recorded	2005 in Stockholm, Sweden
Genre	Rock
Length	44:57 (Original version) 48:48 (UK version)
Label	Playground Music (Europe) DRT Entertainment (USA)
Producer(s)	Martin Hansen and Mikael Nord Andersson
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The Rasmus chronology
Dead Letters (2003)	Hide from the Sun (2005)	Seventh studio album (2008)

Hide from the Sun is the sixth studio album by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus, originally released in mainland Europe, the UK, Scandinavia and Japan on September 12, 2005.

It was released in the USA on October 10, 2006, and featured a selection of b-side remixes and special edition bonus tracks. The USA edition also included the previously unseen video for Immortal.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Singles 3 Videos 4 Trivia 5 Credits 6 Sample clips 7 External link

[edit] Track listing

1. "Shot" - 4:18
2. "Night After Night (Out of the Shadows)" - 3:44
3. "No Fear" - 4:07
4. "Lucifer's Angel" - 4:01
5. "Last Generation" - 4:03
6. "Dead Promises" - 3:39
7. "Immortal" - 4:57
8. "Sail Away" - 3:49
9. "Keep Your Heart Broken" - 3:55
10. "Heart of Misery" - 3:27
11. "Don't Let Go" - 4:51

Bonus track on Limited Edition

1. "Dancer in the Dark" - 3:28

Bonus track on UK Edition

1. "Open My Eyes" - 3:48

Bonus track on Japanese Edition

1. "Trigger" - 3:21

Bonus tracks on USA Edition

1. "Dancer in the Dark" - 3:28
2. "Open My Eyes" (Acoustic) - 3:21
3. "Trigger" - 3:21
4. "No Fear" (Chris Vrenna Remix) - 3:40
5. "Sail Away" (Benztown Mixdown) - 7:29
6. "Lucifer's Angel" (Acoustic) - 3:47
7. "Immortal" music video

[edit] Singles

• The first single, named No Fear was released on September 5, 2005.
• The second single, Sail Away, was released on November 14, 2005.
• The third single from the album was Shot. Unfortunately, due to poor sales ever since Dead Letters and In the Shadows, this single is only available by download in the UK. It was released on April 24, 2006.

All singles (except for Shot) are also available as maxi singles, with different track listings and covers. The maxi singles features the PC-program "The Rasmus Player" with photos and videos etc.

A video has also been made for Immortal, but no single release.

[edit] Videos

The video for "No Fear" includes a girl who The Rasmus 'feel for' by singing about her life and how she feels. The girl has an obsession with butterflies and follows them out of her small dark bedroom as she sleep-walks. Unaware of her sleep-walking she accidentally steps on broken glass on top of a roof and falls through to where the band is playing. But has she died? She appears to end up in a beautiful garden with a bed randomly placed in the middle, surrounded by butterflies and flowers. However, she also stays in her dingy bedroom, gloomily looking up at the framed butterfly picture on her wall. The effect is added to at the end by reusing several of the shots seen at the beginning of the video.

In the video for "Sail Away" some black butterflies fly away to the sea after singer Lauri is shown walking slowly down a cold-looking beach, singing. He sees a man coming up onto the shore carrying an empty bird-cage and he carries on walking. He sees that man again, digging a grave and a woman standing near him. The woman jerks her head in Lauri's direction to him. Lauri also sees more odd happennings, such as two children dancing around a wood sculpture (possibly a pyre) in gas masks. The pyre has dolls in coffins hung on it. Lauri enters a shack, lucky enough to walk in just in time as a sand-storm occurs and seeps into the shack. Aki (drummer) and Eero (bassist) both turn into sand-figures. At the end of the video, Aki's head and Eero's arms both fall off.

In the video for "Shot" the band seems to be in outer space, singing on a desert-like planet. The video consists of mainly alternating between close-ups of each bandmember and different angles of the whole band. Fast zooms and camera angle changes are used in parts of the video. At one point, there is a close-up of singer Lauri's eye and a comet flickers across his iris. This is very similar to a part of the video for "First Day of My Life", in which a close up of Lauri's eye is seen with a reflection of a racing track.

The video for "Immortal" is pieced together from various live performances of the song.

[edit] Trivia

• The album cover was painted by guitarist Pauli Rantasalmi.
• The Rasmus' official website changed its layout in 2005 to fit the "Hide from the Sun"-theme.

[edit] Credits

The Rasmus

• Lauri Ylönen: Vocals
• Pauli Rantasalmi: Guitar
• Eero Heinonen: Bass
• Aki Hakala: Drums

Additional musicians

• Cellos on Dead Promises arranged and performed by Apocalyptica
• Strings on Lucifer's Angel and Sail Away arranged by Jesper Nordenström and performed by Jakob Ruthberg, Anna S Wallgren, Roland Kress and Christian Bergqvist

Additional personnel

• Produced, recorded and mixed by Mikael Nord Andersson and Martin Hansen for NordHansen Productions
• Mastered by Christofer Stannow, Cosmos Mastering
• Re-mastered by Roger Lian at Masterdisk, New York, NY
• Sleeve & photos by Walse/Undén

[edit] Sample clips

[edit] External link

• The Rasmus official website

The Rasmus
Lauri Ylönen · Eero Heinonen · Pauli Rantasalmi · Aki Hakala
Janne Heiskanen
Discography
Studio albums: Peep (1996) · Playboys (1997) · Hell of a Tester (1998) · Into (2001) · Dead Letters (2003) · Hide from the Sun (2005) · Seventh studio album (2008)
Compilation albums: Hell of a Collection (2001)
DVDs: Live Letters (2004)
Singles & EPs: 1995: 1st  · 1996: 2nd · 3rd · 1997: Blue · Kola · Playboys · 1998: Ice · Liquid · 2001: Swimming with the Kids · F-F-F-Falling · Chill · Madness · 2002: Heartbreaker/Days · 2003: In the Shadows · In My Life · First Day of My Life · 2004: Funeral Song · Guilty · 2005: No Fear · Sail Away · 2006: Shot
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