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Lordi
is a
Finnish
heavy metal
band
which is famous for their monster costumes. They won the
Eurovision Song Contest 2006
with the song "Hard Rock Hallelujah". Their other famous songs include "Would You Love a Monsterman?", "Devil Is a Loser", "Blood Red Sandman", "This Is Heavy Metal" and "Sincerely with Love".
Lordi was started in 1992 by
Mr. Lordi
. Its original members were Mr. Lordi (vocals), Kita (percussion), Amen (guitar), G-stealer (bass) and Enary (keyboards). The first single was "Would You Love a Monsterman?" in 2002. It was also included in the band's album
Get Heavy
. Their music and style has been compared to the American groups
Kiss
and
Twisted Sister
.
- G-Stealer (Sami Keinanen) - bass (1996-1999)
- Magnum (Sami Wolking) - bass, backing vocals (1999-2002)
- Kalma (Niko Hurme) - bass, backing vocals (2002-2005)
- Enary (Erna Siikavirta) - keyboards, backing vocals (1996-2005)
- Kita (Sampsa Astala) - drums (2000-2010)
- Otus (Tonmi Lillman) - drums (2010-2012)
- Awa (Leena Peisa) - keyboards (2005-2012)
- OX (Samer el Nahhal) -
bass guitar
(2005-2019)
- Amen (Jussi Sydanmaa) -
guitar
(1996-2022)
- Would You Love a Monsterman? (2002)
- Devil is a Loser (2003)
- Blood Red Sandman (2004)
- My Heaven Is Your Hell (2004)
- Hard Rock Hallelujah (2006)
- Who's Your Daddy? (2006)
- Would You Love A Monsterman? (2006) (2006) (PROMO)
- It Snows In Hell (2006)
- They Only Come Out At Night (2007)
- Beast Loose In Paradise (2008)
- Bite It Like A Bulldog (2008)
- Famous Five (EP, 2008)
- Deadache (2008)
- This Is Heavy Metal (2010)
- Rock Police (2010)
- The Riff (2013)
- Nailed by the Hammer of Frankenstein (2014)
- Hug You Hardcore (2016)
- Your Tongue’s Got the Cat (2018)
- Naked in My Cellar (2018)
- Shake the Baby Silent (2019)
- I Dug a Hole in the Yard for You (2019)
- Like A Bee To The Honey (2020)
- Believe Me (2021)
- Abracadaver (2021)
- Borderline (2021)
- Merry Blah Blah Blah (2021)
- Demon Supreme (2021)
- Day Off Of The Devil (2022)
- Spear Of The Romans (2022)
- Reel Monsters (2022)
- Hard Rock Hallelujah (Feat. Burger Lars Dietrich) (2022)
- Lucyfer Prime Evil (2023)
- Thing in the Cage (2023)
- Monster Magazine (2002)
- The Uninvited Guests (2003)
- Kerailija (2006)
- Alkupera (2006)
- Verenjano (2007)
- Verensininen (2008)
- Graphic Novels (2013)
- Illustrated Lyrics (2014)
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