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'''Lordi''' is a Finnish hard-rock band, who became famous internationally in year 2006 after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, Greece, though in Finland they were already known to their fans since about year 1997.
'''Lordi''' is a Finnish hard-rock band, who became famous internationally in year 2006 after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, Greece, though in Finland they were already known to their fans since about year 1997.
Lordi are usually known for their appearance on the stage, in interviews and photos - the first thing the fans and other people think about when hearing this name, is - "the monsters". Indeed, they all wear masks and costumes, that are made individually for each memeber of the band by their leader to look like real, live monsters and to hide their true appearances.  
Lordi are usually known for their appearance on the stage, in interviews and photos - the first thing the fans and other people think about when hearing this name, is - "the monsters". Indeed, they all wear masks and costumes, that are made individually for each memeber of the band by their leader to look like real, live monsters and to hide their true appearances.  
==Band history==
* Lordi first appeared after the formation of the trio: Lordi (vocals), Amen (guitar) and G-Stealer (bass);
* in 1997 the band is joined by Enary on keyboard
* In 1999, the group records the album Bend Over And Pray The Lord. Tiainen (the owner of their record company at the time) had originally planned to publish the album, but according to Tiainen and the record company, they didn't have sufficient resources to market the album
* During the same year G-Stealer leaves the band because of work commitments and is replaced by Magnum,
* In 2000, the band is also joined by drummer Kita
* Lordi signs a record deal with BMG Finland in 2002. In July 2002 the band releases their first single, "Would You Love A Monsterman?",
* In autumn 2002, bassist Magnum fires from band for personal reasons and is replaced by Kalma (Kalma did not play the first album, although he appeared as album art and the composition of the accounts )
* In November 2002 the band releases their debut album, Get Heavy
* The band wins the 2003 Emma award for best domestic hard rock / heavy metal album, their debut album Get Heavy.
* In 2003, the Lordi appeared in several music events in Finland and abroad, especially in Germany,
* 2004 band releases their second album, The Monsterican Dream whose best-known songs are released on single "My Heaven Is Your Hell" and "Blood Red Sandman".
* On the same year they release the band's own short film, The Kin.
* The Monster Show, a compilation album is released in February 2005
* In the same year the keyboardist Enary and bassist Kalma leave the band, both for different reasons; Awa and OX are assigned in their place;
* In May 20, year 2006 Lordi win the ESC2006 with the song ‘’Hard Rock Hallelujah’’ scoring 292 points ( a record in ESC which was broken on year 2009 );
(history for years 2006 – till now coming up later )


==Discography==
==Discography==

Revision as of 11:37, 17 November 2009

The metal-band called 'Lordi'

Lordi is a Finnish hard-rock band, who became famous internationally in year 2006 after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, Greece, though in Finland they were already known to their fans since about year 1997. Lordi are usually known for their appearance on the stage, in interviews and photos - the first thing the fans and other people think about when hearing this name, is - "the monsters". Indeed, they all wear masks and costumes, that are made individually for each memeber of the band by their leader to look like real, live monsters and to hide their true appearances.

Band history

  • Lordi first appeared after the formation of the trio: Lordi (vocals), Amen (guitar) and G-Stealer (bass);
  • in 1997 the band is joined by Enary on keyboard
  • In 1999, the group records the album Bend Over And Pray The Lord. Tiainen (the owner of their record company at the time) had originally planned to publish the album, but according to Tiainen and the record company, they didn't have sufficient resources to market the album
  • During the same year G-Stealer leaves the band because of work commitments and is replaced by Magnum,
  • In 2000, the band is also joined by drummer Kita
  • Lordi signs a record deal with BMG Finland in 2002. In July 2002 the band releases their first single, "Would You Love A Monsterman?",
  • In autumn 2002, bassist Magnum fires from band for personal reasons and is replaced by Kalma (Kalma did not play the first album, although he appeared as album art and the composition of the accounts )
  • In November 2002 the band releases their debut album, Get Heavy
  • The band wins the 2003 Emma award for best domestic hard rock / heavy metal album, their debut album Get Heavy.
  • In 2003, the Lordi appeared in several music events in Finland and abroad, especially in Germany,
  • 2004 band releases their second album, The Monsterican Dream whose best-known songs are released on single "My Heaven Is Your Hell" and "Blood Red Sandman".
  • On the same year they release the band's own short film, The Kin.
  • The Monster Show, a compilation album is released in February 2005
  • In the same year the keyboardist Enary and bassist Kalma leave the band, both for different reasons; Awa and OX are assigned in their place;
  • In May 20, year 2006 Lordi win the ESC2006 with the song ‘’Hard Rock Hallelujah’’ scoring 292 points ( a record in ESC which was broken on year 2009 );

(history for years 2006 – till now coming up later )


Discography

  • Bend Over And Pray The Lord – never released
  • Get Heavy (2002)
  • The Monsterican Dream (2004)
  • The Arockalypse (2006)
  • Deadache (2008)

Members

Though the design of the masks change gradually with each new album they present, the basic idea and shapes remain the same:

  • Mr. Lordi - the leader, a crossbreed of a demon and a troll, he also The Most Fearsome Khan of All, the lead singer of the band;
  • Amen - a dangerous, human flesh-eating mummy, former pharao, The Unstoppable Mummy, the guitar player of the band;
  • Awa - a powerful witch, vampire, ghost and mentalist, also known as The Origin of Be Aware! and sometimes is reffered to as having some kind of schizophrenia, the keyboardist of the band;
  • Kita - an alien species, The Jaws of Terror, the drum player of the band;
  • OX - a bulltaur (minotaur), alias The Hellbull or Operation 10 , the bass player of the band.

Aside from those five, there have sometimes been changes in the band - some members have left, new ones came in their places. So those, who left, are:

  • Kalma - a zombie, The Motorcycle Zombie from Hell, former bass player ( 2002-2005 );
  • Enary - a valkyrie, The Daughter of Death, The Ruiner of Valhalla, The Ageless Keeper of the Valkyrian Force, former keyboardist ( 1997-2005 );
  • Magnum - an alien bounty hunter; former bass player ( 1999-2002 );
  • G-Stealer - an alien species, former bass player ( 1996-1999 ).

Character History

Also, each character has its own background as to what he/she has done before meeting the other monsters ( NOT to be confused with the real person's behind the masks life! ) :

  • Mr. Lordi - a bastard son of troll and demon; when the demons attacked the trolls, his troll mother was raped and later killed so no crossbreed could be born. Fortunately for him, he managed to survive and was raised by three reindeers and the great gray owl, having all the strenght and bad characteristics of trolls and demons. From trolls came his physical strenght and connection with the nature, from demons the powers over the minds of living and dead. In the age of 9 the lad met his father, who wanted the son to join him, but in the response the boy killed father and all the demons who were with him, thus becoming the master of Lapland and later conquered all the northern tribes. His background tells, that he has appeared several times through the history of the world as Count Vladimir (or, most well known - Count Dracula) or DschingisKhan, until his dissappearance after the 15th century. He personally has gathered the other members of the band together in different ages and eras. Mr. Lordi's armour is biomechanical, it responses to its owner's powers and health status.
  • Amen - former pharao of Egypt, a wise and handsome ruler on daytime, at night - a ruthless assassin, who slaughtered the enemies of the aristocracy for money, he also killed his own advisors and took their widows into his harem (the mummy actually has a fondness for girls). After a failure in an attempt of assassination he lost his good looks, became more evil and thus, a threat to his servants, who then killed and cursed him with a curse of never ending hunger for human flesh. In the 20th century the mummy was awakened from his tomb, killed the archeologists that had found him and went travelling across the desert. After some time, he came across a caravan, right on the time to see the merchants being slaughtered by some unvisible fiend. He started feasting on the human flesh, though the massacre was still going on. After humans were killed, Mr. Lordi made himself visible and suggested Amen an aliance.
  • Awa - a descendant of an aristocratic family of England, after her father resorted to violance when she was a teenager, she discovered she actually had telepatic abilities and soon learned to transfer her mind into inanimate objects and control them. At the age of 23 she fell in love with a joung charmer, John Heart, but soon after that witnessed her fiancee cheating on her and killed him by taking the form of a sheet he had used during that and strangling him. After this Awa swapped her mind with a cat to make shure her body was kept alive and went travelling on astral plane for years and learning all the skills of fortune tellers, witches and other dark beings. Meanwhile, her father had decided to marry her to some old but rich prince, but there was not much of the wedding, 'cause of the pastor seeing the bride was posessed, and she was impaled on a stake and buried, however, her spirit soon managed to find and return to her rotting body in its wedding dress. She set off to meet her mother, but soon learned her father had murdered his wife in a fit of rage, so she killed him and left for travelling around Europe as a ghost. After coming across Mr. Lordi in the 19th century , Awa was offered a power to cross the edges of other dimensions, if she cooperates with him, and she simply said "Yes". Her eyes remind those of a cat or a snake.
  • Enary - a banished valkyrie. She was born to Hel, who called the daughter Enary and put a mask on her face so noone could be able to recognise her. Planning to use the daughter as a tool to take over the armies of the fallen soldiers in Valhalla, Hel sent her to Odin in order to becoma a valkyrie. In fact, Enary was the most agressive valkyrie of all, who sometimes killed worthy warriors by herself to gather their souls for Odin. Meanwhile, Hel's father, Loki, who was immune to his daughter's charms, started suspecting Hel as a traitor and told this to Odin. The furious Odin tore off the skin from Enary's face ( you can best see it in the second mask, the red gashes on her cheeks ), took away her powers and banished her from Valhalla to Mount Pain, where she was supposed to guard the borders of the dimensions. Sometimes the banished valkyrie was able to concentrate and travel outside for some time, to gather the fallen warrior souls. Finally she was found and set free by Mr. Lordi, who made a deal with Odin. The terms of that contract are unknown, but it seems that it has expired, because Enary is back in the Mount Pain. Being a very skillful warrior, she uses the sword made by Thor and is dressed in armour.
  • Kalma - alias Nicholas Gore was a soldier in Vyetnamese war, serving in the 4th motorcycle division. After the war, like many veterans, Nicholas was unable to assimilate in the civil society. He grew his hair, bought Harley Davidson motorcycle and went travelling through America, working on small jobs and spending everything on the Harley. After some time, driving through the Nevada desert, Nicholas unwittingly came across Kalmaged the Timetraveler, who was there looking for an old alien space shuttle, and Nicholas suddenly found himself in Britain, around year 2300, where he joined a rebellion. Some time after being killed in one of the raids, he was awakened by Kalmaged, who gave him the name Kalma and made one of the brothers of The Calmageddian Brotherhood, where Kalma started learning magic. After Kalmaged was killed by OX, all his games with the time and dimensions came to light, and the least Kalma could do, was to track down the real Kalmaged - who had disappeared into other time lines - together with Mr. Lordi. The zombie's favourite weapon is a shotgun.
  • Kita - the alien warrior, though it is not known, wether his name refers to him only or the whole species. Sent to Earth thousands of years ago by the dominant race of his homeplanet, he has been seen alive through the centuries. After some time Kita became enslaved by some kind of snake demon. After Mr.Lordi subdued the creature, the alien remained with him and was tought to use invisibility. Despite many fans believes, Kita's a water life form, though is able to breathe and walk on ground, thanks to this, he's able to move very fast and jump high and far; he's also stronger than a grown-up mountain gorilla. Chains and collar are the signs of a slavery on his home planet, the dominant race had also had a computer chip inserted in his brain, making the beast more intelligent. The alien's skin is so thick, only acid can get through this natural armour and do serious damages.
  • Magnum - the cyber-zombie warrior. Magnums was trained as a warrior and sold to the civilisation of Mu Arae galaxie's 4th planet. After being killed in battle, his body was stored and modified, mixing metal parts with the actual structure, making him into a cyborg. As a cyborg, Magnum was used into several operations to protect merchants, however he soon realised his real powers and fled from his boss. After being hunted through many planets and galaxies, Magnum finally came to an unknown to him planet - ours - where he was found by Mr.Lordi and agreed to cooperate with him. However, there are speculations, that another alien came along with him, hiding in the space module. Being a warrior in Mu Arae galaxy, Magnum was also the enemy of Kita's and ( or ) G-Stealer's race, with part of his weapons being made specially for wounding and killing these predators.
  • OX - a bit barbaric bulltaur warrior, who served a mage called Androlus on a small island. After another magus stole a boook of dark spells from his master, OX and Androlus were both killed, yet the bulltaur was resurrected and now served to Kalmaged. After learning that his new master had had him and Androlus killed, he slaughtered Kalmaged and took the leadership of the Kalmaggedian Brotherhood they had created, in his own hands, until it was his time to follow Mr. Lordi. As a bulltaur, OX is incredibly strong and rarely uses any weapon. However, bulltaurs are most dangerous when deadly wounded, the creature's mind blocks out then and the beast sinks into a kind of a trance, killing everyone in the near, until the battle is over, then the trance ends and the wounded minotaur dies. OX is also well known between the female fans for his green eyes.

References

  • Mie Oon Lordi, Jussi Ahlroth