The July 26 Backbeat section contains a profile of Lordi, a ghoul-garbed Finnish group that’s one of the odder acts on this year’s Ozzfest bill — a proud achievement if there ever was one. The ...

Forget MTV. Last year, Lordi, a Finnish group whose members costume themselves as literal monsters of rock, got exposure on a slew of cable-news channels after winning the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest ...

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Plenty of metal bands use horror to sharpen their fangs, but few are as transparent about their interest in courting pop music with goblins and ghouls as Finland’s Lordi. And few have been as ...

Dressing up as ghoulish monsters is nothing new in heavy metal, but what sets Finland's Lordi apart from the majority of its predecessors is that the group made a splash with their music first by… By ...

The trauma of losing the Eurovision Song Contest can do funny things to a country. In Finland, where the words "nul points" are burned into the national psyche, they have decided to take radical ...

Could this be the greatest reason for sacking a band member ever? Gwar-lite rockers Lordi have sacked drummer Kita after the sticksman unmasked. The Fins took the action after the drummer revealed ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. BEFORE the Finnish heavy metal band Lordi won the Eurovision Song Contest in May with its anthem Hard Rock Hallelujah, its many critics ...

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Since the monster rockers won, a massive rethink has been going on from Andorra to Israel. Ballads, quasi-folkloric displays and cheesy pop are on their way out, as Norse rockers armed with ...