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CRITICS LIKE LORDI AGAIN

Lordi seems to be getting finally some good words from critics with their new album To beast or not to beast ( listen a sampler ). For example Sue magazine gives it 9/10 and also features a long interview with Mr Lordi.  It's more metal than the previous ones and makes a clear difference to the precedent partyheavy album Babez for breakfast in 2010. The band may finally be able to brush off the Eurovision clowns image they have been suffering ever since 2006 by some critics and fans. But they seem to have made a peace with that, too, as they performed in the Irish antional selection 2013 and di Hard rock hallelujah instead of the new The riff . I kinda like Candy for the cannibal and  The year 2012 was ment to be band's jubilee year but it all changed when the drummer Otus died in February. ”The news reached me before I was told about it ” he recalls. ”it wasn't surprising, the timing was. It was a fact he wouldn't live to 60, but that he didn't even m...

LORDI SCORES 6TH TOP-10 ALBUM IN A ROW

Lordi has released their sixth stuido album To beast and not to beast and it enters the official Finnish album charts at #8. This continues their top-10 album series without a miss: In 2002 their debut Get heavy went to #2 (and later in 2006 #1 in midprice charts), in 2004 The monsterican dream to #4 (and in 2006 #2 in midprice charts), 2006 The Arockalypse went to #1 and stayed in the top-40 for 55 weeks. After Eurovision fever was over, their next album Deadache in 2008 went to #5 and to years later Babez for breakfast to #9. And now, To beast or not to beast debuts better than babez at #8. Their latest single is The Riff .

LORDI HAS AN IMAGE PROBLEM

Mr Lordi talked in a recent interview the problems they have with credibility and respect because of their masks and Eurovision win. "I can only wonder how some people declare themselves idiots by saying a mask band's album can't be good music. If we didn't wear these masks I'm sure the critic would be better. And this is mainly a Finnish phenomenom. " He continues saying for female artists  - and not only - make up and hairdos are a kind of mask, too. Don't you think even schlager artists think about their image carefully? "What if The Beatles wore masks back in the 1960's? Would their music be concidered so good now? Absolutely not!" he concludes. Lordi has just released their sixth stuido album To beast or not to beast (the title reflecting these thoughts above) with the new single The Riff . In April the band will go on European tour again...