Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva, for International Herald Tribune
The band Lordi won a nationwide competition to represent Finland at the Eurovision song contest this year.
Posted on 04/25/2006 4:02:44 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva, for International Herald Tribune
The band Lordi won a nationwide competition to represent Finland at the Eurovision song contest this year.
HELSINKI, Finland — They have eight-foot retractable latex Satan wings, sing hits like "Chainsaw Buffet" and blow up slabs of smoking meat on stage. So members of the band Lordi expected a reaction when they beat a crooner of love ballads to represent Finland at the Eurovision song contest in Athens, the competition that was the springboard for Abba and Celine Dion.
But the heavy-metal monster band did not imagine a national identity crisis.
First, Finnish religious leaders warned that the Freddy Krueger look-alikes could inspire Satanic worship. Then critics called for President Tarja Halonen to use her constitutional powers to veto the band and nominate a traditional Finnish folk singer instead. Rumors even circulated that Lordi members were agents sent by President Vladimir V. Putin to destabilize Finland before a Russian coup — an explanation for their refusal to take off their freakish masks in public.
The fury also spread in Greece, winner of last year's Eurovision and therefore the host of this year's contest, where an anti-Lordi movement called Hellenes urged the Finnish government "to say 'no' to this evil group." One young Finn calling himself Suomi (Finland in Finnish) wrote to a newspaper Web log saying, "If Lordi wins Eurovision, I am leaving the country."
The lead singer, Lordi — a former film student who goes by his real name, Tomi Putaansuu, when not wielding a blood-spurting electric chain saw — is philosophical about the uproar.
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yeah...well...they have a lot of darkness up there...but they make good knives and rifles...
line dancing
"Aren't you kids a little old for trick-or-treating? I suppose you can have some of the gross peanut butter taffy ones, nobody likes those anyway."
LOL! They look like a week's worth of kills for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ;)
LOL!
lol.
I'm sure their "music" is about as passe as their spooky, metal-encrusted outfits.
Their new album is co-produced by some people from Twisted Sister and an ex-Kiss guitarist, so no real hard rock. It's no screaming deahtmetal or whatever. More like a heavy ZZ-Top (also with the keyboards like ZZ-Top uses them), but a little darker themes and a little louder on the drums.
Their video's are wilder thought lol.
hard rock hallelujah!
Feh...these jokers got nothing on Metallica.
Lordi
GWAR
Battle for the scariest Halloween costume.
Now I can sleep sound tonight knowing they won :)
I like the GWAR costumes better, and they have a giant worm stage prop that can actually engulf an audience member. How do you top something like that?
The girl has a dangerous bra on. She could poke an eye out with that thing.
I don't like it, but some others might like it. To each his own.
Watched it live. Never watch the contest but for this year I made an exception!
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