Black Roses (album)
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Producer | Desmond Child, Harry Sommerdahl[1] | |||
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Black Roses is the seventh studio album by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus, which was released on 29 September 2008 in the UK.[2] In Germany the album was released on 26 September and in the Nordic countries two days before. The album immediately replaced Metallica's Death Magnetic on the top spot of the Finnish Album Charts and went gold after one week.[3][4] As of 2009[update], total of over more than 400,000 copies of the album have been sold worldwide.
Background
According to Dynasty Recordings' MySpace profile, the band rested in Helsinki during the winter 2006 and also wrote songs for the upcoming album. They had met the producer
Singles
The first single "Livin' in a World Without You" was released on 10 September and for radio stations in July.[2][5] The music video for "Livin' in a World Without You" was shot on 3 July in Stockholm, and released in August.[6] The song was first played live on 5 July in NRJ in the Park in Berlin together with another new song, "Ten Black Roses".
The second single will be "Justify", released later in autumn. It is quite low, dark and emotional song with some Depeche Mode influences.[1][7] The Depeche Mode influence is only weak to this song especially, and can be attributed more generally to the music of The Rasmus. But parts of the melody line is an echo of The Cure hit song "Lullaby". This shows particularly in the first and last 30 seconds of the song.
Lauri Ylönen stated on the Austrian television station Go TV, that the duet with Anette Olzon (Nightwish) was to be released later in 2009. The title of song is "October & April". It was released in November 2009.
Touring
The first time The Rasmus played any new songs from Black Roses was the gig in Berlin on 5 July. The group started the promotion for Black Roses with acoustic gigs at Radio SAW and RS2 in Germany 26–27 August. The Black Roses world tour started in January 2009 in Europe. In Finland they did a tour called Dynasty Tour 2008 in October 2008 together with
. The Black Roses tour so far contained concerts in more than twenty-four countries, while some concerts in South America had to be cancelled because of the outbreak of the severe swine flu. Between June 14 and June 28, 2009 The Rasmus played together with Alice Cooper and Scorpions on a short stadium tour in Russia called "Monsters of Rock". In the summer months of 2009 the band played several festivals.Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
411mania | link |
Allmusic | link |
Kerrang! | |
Melodic | [8] |
Track listing
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | " Your Forgiveness " | 3:55 |
6. | "Run to You" | 4:11 |
7. | "You Got It Wrong" | 3:15 |
8. | "Lost and Lonely" | 4:46 |
9. | "The Fight" | 3:45 |
10. | "Dangerous Kind" | 3:46 |
11. | "Live Forever" | 3:20 |
No. | Title | Length |
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12. | "Yesterday You Threw Away Tomorrow" | 3:08 |
Bonus DVD special fan edition
- "Making of Black Roses"
Charts
Charts (2008)[9] | Peak position |
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Austrian Albums Chart | 22 |
Czech Republic | 12 |
Dutch Albums Chart | 51 |
Finland Albums Chart | 1 |
German Albums Chart | 13 |
Greek International Albums Chart
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7[10] |
Greek Overall Albums Chart | 26[11] |
Hungarian Albums Chart[12]
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33 |
Italy Albums Chart | 46 |
Mexico | 7 |
Spain Albums Chart | 58 |
Sweden Albums Chart | 32 |
Swiss Albums Chart | 22 |
UK Rock Albums | 13 |
Release history
Country | Date | Label |
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Finland | 24 September 2008 | Playground Music |
Sweden | ||
Estonia | ||
Norway | ||
Denmark | ||
Germany | 26 September 2008 | Universal Music |
Austria | ||
Switzerland | ||
The Netherlands | ||
Poland | ||
International | 29 September 2008 | |
Italy | 3 October 2008 | |
Australia | 4 October 2008 | |
Canada | 7 October 2008 | |
Japan | 29 October 2008[13] |
References
- ^ a b c MySpace
- ^ a b Yle Pop-news
- ^ Quadruple Chart Stunt Archived 2012-02-20 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on October 2, 2008
- ^ The Awards Archived 2010-05-15 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on October 2, 2008
- ^ Voice.fi Archived 2008-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Playground Music
- ^ Soundi 8/2008
- ^ Roth, Kaj (September 25, 2008). "The Rasmus - Black Roses". Melodic. Archived from the original on February 18, 2012. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
- ^ "The Rasmus - Black Roses - Music Charts". Acharts.us. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
- ^ "Ελληνικό Chart". Ifpi.gr. Archived from the original on 2010-08-08. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
- ^ "Ελληνικό Chart". Ifpi.gr. Archived from the original on 2007-09-05. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
- MAHASZ. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
- ^ The Rasmus MySpace