Hail to Lordi, princes of tr00 vberkvltik Eurovision black metal!!!

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First, the good news for all Lordi fans is that they are carving up the joint of meat at the Finnish Eurovision finals!

Cod Goth rockers Lordi see the Finnish Eurovision national final as a chance to get a bit of free publicity. "It will not take away our 'rock credibility', in fact, we're bringing the rock credibility to the whole thing", says band member Kita. "People are not stupid, they've simply just been offered crap before", he continued "We are not entering the contest to win, we are doing this kick some serious ass. We have not yet decided the songs that we will enter, but they are from our upcoming album. So, from our point of view, it is just free PR, nothing more!"

Well said, my defiant friends. And now also, please if you dare to listen to the music:

http://www.lordi.org/main.html

Be sure to select 'extras' and listen to 'Blood Red Sandman' and 'Could You Love a Monsterman?'. It goes not saying anything that the answer to the latter question is 'no, indeed, for I am too afraid!'.

― Janne Karlsson (moley), Thursday, 8 December 2005 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

hey, mole, what did you think of the new berserker album? speedgabber grind doesn't get much sweeter!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

I will tell moley to check it out, thank you scott.

― Janne Karlsson (moley), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

Janne was the prophet.

Thanks to Matt DC I've now seen the "Hard Rock Hallelujah" video. Genius. What's great about it:

1) You can tell why it won Eurovision because it's basic but perfectly catchy, has wonderfully ridiculous English language lyrics and clearly is not out to take itself seriously

2) The setting of the video is "Smells Like Teen Spirit" crossed with Buffy and ergo should appeal to everyone.

3) The basic principle of the video -- wish fulfillment on the part of the lonely misunderstood fan -- is oh so eternal. And while Maura could speak more about this I thought it was kinda keen that the female lead, though clearly cast in part because she fits a conventional model of beauty, wasn't transformed into some stereotypical metal babe as I'm sure any hair metal video circa 1988 would have done.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 21 May 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Thankyou Ned. Although, as I have recently joked, it is second time in history that cold metal warriors from the North have taken out Euro. This is very obscure joke, hihi!

― Janne Karlsson, Monday, 22 May 2006 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

Somebody once described Kiss' "The Elder" as "music for He-Man to fight Skeletor to." I think Lordi have that shit down COLD. I can't decide if they're better or worse than GWAR, but I don't really care, since GWAR never got to be in the Eurovision Song Contest, let alone win the damn thing. ROCK ON LORDI.

― J (Jay), Monday, 22 May 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Editorial from lLamentations of the Flame Princess:

Lordi accomplished a great thing this past weekend.

But it's not the accomplishment you think it was. And it certainly wasn't an accomplishment in favor of heavy metal.

Let me explain...

http://www.lotfp.com/content.php?editorialid=54

― ratty, Tuesday, 23 May 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

That is some whiny bullshit right there, I gotta say.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ah Ned, let a thousand flowers bloom my koala chomping friend. All views on Lordi will be silenced on the Day of Rockening.

― ratty, Tuesday, 23 May 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

True, true. I should just laugh instead.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

Lordi has brought all kinds of commentators out of the woodwork hasn't it?

― ratty, Tuesday, 23 May 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

And yet Metal Sludge is silent!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

But "Hard Rock Hallelujah" isn't very good. Ratty, I'm surprised at you! (Having said that, Edguy to take out 2007 Eurovision, YEAH!)

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

HRH is mediocre at best. It now being treated as some sort of victory for hymen-intact World of Warcraft players everywhere ("wow! there are people who are socially inept as us all around europe!") pushes it firmly into the "bad" territory.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

Lordi has brought all kinds of commentators out of the woodwork hasn't it?

I hope Sami is okay, he had a nice suit on last time I saw him but was looking like he'd lost an eye

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Milton!

(xpost) Well of course, it ain't much cop. Absolutely, ed, Edguy should take out the Eurovision, that would be perfect and something to celebrate on an artistic level too.

― ratty, Tuesday, 23 May 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

haha when the Lordi singer comes bursting through that door, that video gets cranked up from mediocre to AMAZING

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 24 May 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

finnish gwar. i'm down.

― Emily B (Emily B), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't think "Hard Rock Hallelujah" was that good either. I prefer "Would You Love a Monsterman", their first hit, though the video is perhaps not as good.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

It's the Arockalypse!

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

well, when watching it was fairly obv. they would win but (as i'm sure everyone has got on to) they weren't really 1_1 metal. they won cause they looked funny.

― danny invincible (michael w.), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Europe said, in effect, 'Yes, we could love a monsterman'.

― registered ratty (registered ratty), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=12349051&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews

― ratty, Monday, 29 May 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

The new album has songs on it called "Girls Go Chopping" and "Evilyn." This is as it should be.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 05:19 (sixteen years ago)

I think the band pretty much wasted whatever momentum they got from the Eurovision thing by making a Lordi horror movie instead of trying to put a new album out as soon as possible. Now it took them 2,5 years to do that, and who still remembers Lordi?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 06:46 (sixteen years ago)

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