What is the meaning of Dynasty?
Dynasty represent 3 bands: The Rasmus, Kwan and The Killers.
The components of each band are friends.
Lauri explain that in Finland the bands are together also in charts, and are connected by a strong tie.
Pauli produces Kwan and Killers while Lauri featured in a song of Kwan ("Chillin' At The Grotto").
The Dynasty logo appears in booklet of the "Dead Letters" CD and in the booklet of the respective bands.
Dynasty includes also the Racing Mash.
Racing Mash represent the power of finnish music and is a word used particularly in Germany for call band like The Rasmus or HIM.

The band play pop-rock and has released two albums and one smash hit, "Naughty Boy", followed in 2003 by "Sure You Know How To Drive This Thing".
They support several bands including The Rasmus, in October and November 2003.
Killers have some number one hits in finnish chart.
Siiri, lead singer and leader of the band, featured with Lauri in "Chillin At The Grotto", the song mentioned above.
Pauli produces the band.

Kwan won Finnish Grammy for the most sold album in 2002, and are produced by Antti Erakangas e Pauli Rantasalmi.
Their genre is nordic hip-hop, with the style of finnish rappers and Oli P.
In some songs there are collaborations with Lauri and Siiri, in some B-Sides of the Singles there are songs with Lauri.
Kwan single "Shine" arrived at #5 of Finnish chart and the album "The Die Is Cast" had great success.

The Korpi Ensemble are a finnish bands where Eero play like bassist, a parallel project.
The members of band are 6 and the band play melodic Pop-Jazz with Gigs in locals and jazz festivals.
The leader is the singer Johanna Iivanainen.

korpiensemble.net

Yeah, Aki actor!
If pauli was an actor for a movie, Aki recited in a tv serial called "Siamin Tytöt", broadcasted but Finnish Television.
The role interpretated by Aki is a Magician/Wise called Niko, while the ambientation is medieval.
In past photos like the followings was rated like fakes, but now you know that is true, the pictures are taken just from this serial.

[The Set]

[Aki like the magician/wise Niko]

Peep: The album "Peep" contains an hidden track... if you listen to "Small" and wait for 3 minutes after the song is finished then you'll hear a voice of a man who talk in finnish and a voice of a kid who says "hello".
Tempo: The track "Tempo" contains a sampling, this sampling is taken from the intro of the track "Playboys" and the phrase is «when you hear the following sound» and «Rasmus album».
Playboys and voice-guide: In the "Playboys" album there is an intro with a voice guide who guide the listener trough the lyrics of the tracks. The voice says to turn the page in the booklet when there is a sound between the tracks «turn the page in the booklet when you hear the falling sound».

Name: "Dead Letters" Special Edition
Date: March 2003
Availability: Finland
Support: 2 CD
Description: This Special Edition, released in the same time with "Dead Letters" normal edition, contains 2 CD. The first is "Dead Letters" with the 10 tracks we know, the second it contains 2 bonus track plus a data track. The data tracks contain "The Making Of The Video" of "In The Shadows Nordic" plus the video, 2 screensavers and exclusive wallpapers (including the wallpaper of "Dead Letters" cover in high resolution). The sticker on the back of the cover reports the text of the special edition.

Name: "Into" Special Edition
Date: October 2003
Availability: Europe
Support: 1 CD (CD Extra, Enhanced)
Description: This re-edition of the best-seller album "Into", it's a special thing for collectors and who ever lost the Singles of "Into". In fact it contains the beautiful B-Sides of the singles "Chill", "Heartbreaker" and "Madness", plus the video of "F-F-F Falling" in high quality. Particouarity of this special edition is the cover of "Into": green dark with the sticker or grey. More, the booklet contains 24 pages of pictures of the band in tour, in backstage and on the road in European Tour of 2001.

[The first cover is grey, the one you can find in Italy. The second is green and is the Europen version]

Name: "Dead Letters" Special Edition
Date: Novembre 2003
Availability: Italia
Support: 1 CD + DVD
Description: This special edition of "Dead Letters", released in Italy by Edel, it's a special edition and also a limited edition. This means that, when the copies are sold, it will never be released again.
This makes the value of this edition bigger, it contains the tracks of "Dead Letters" plus one DVD, with the video of "In The Shadows", "In My Life" and "First Day Of My Life". The sticker in front of the cover reports the text of the DVD with the presence of the videos.