Lordi

i have never heard of them

they're the finnish band who one the eurovision 2 yrs ago. they also played at the MTV europe music awards 2006

bit to heavy for me, but still cool
here they be at eurovision...

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they're like more pop-metal..thhey have smoe repetitive dance beats even by metal standards (bloodred sandman)

I amaze why angua didn't wrote something to this topic...

i was waiting to see what everyone else had to say

they are a very good band, would love to see them live!

Ang

yeah! but I don't know if they make concersts and for how much money ...

i have never heard of them,but will take a gander when i get home

so whatcha think?

can hear a couple of main influences,especially from a band in the chorus,can't remember it's name,it'll come to me sometime though.can hear a bit o' the old metallica though,is alright,unfortunately i don't find his voice very satisfying,he kinda sings outta his throat almost [sorry,just saying what i think].but isn't too bad,i'm just wondering why they're all dressed up like that,is it the fashion these days?

ja cos like bands like that who do that type of music go for the costumes cos its meant to be all scary and demonic...seriously Dimmu Borgir fine but some of the others.....

btw ppl hwo believ in protecting metall form malcores:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chiVMrWMHko&feature=dir

anywho they're alright in my opinion...i dont mind em but i dont love em either...especial cos they are FINISH and sing in ENGLISH where's ur national pride? all hail Rammstein one of the few metal bands to make it singing their native tongue

yeah,rammstein rocks,specially when you can understand some of what they're saying.

afrikaans music sucks,just by the way

I have mixed feelings with Lordi.
Ofcourse they have infinit Coolness, because they won the Euro Songfestival as a (hard) rockband. But they are still a EuroSong band; over the top costumes, simplistic music, terrible background act. etc etc.

@Sgt L: I love that Brian Posehn viseo! He's "hitting the nail on the head", as we use to sy here in Holland.

psssst they say that here too...and in Hungary..so its probably universal

"you can kill metal twice but it'll never really die
it's kind of like a zombie or even a jesus guy"

wow,is that what it's come down to in that part of the world?!?!they don't say that here

well i think the real question is does lordi say it?

I didn't see this topic before I posted on the "cool music" topic.

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nice point...a bit scary at the beginning but a good point. but see from the perspective of the outsiders, they are metal. (from the perspective of the outsider you and I are the same, even though you're mainly black/death metal and I'm more into normal metal). and there are things labeled as metal that are even worse than lordi...at least they aren't rap-core.

Yea, I should perhaps hate the media for it's misintrepretation(did I spell that right?), but Lordi is underlining the view of media on this matter. Rap-core as metal... phew...
Really, I'm OK with commerciality in music as long as it isn't the point of making the music. One of my favourite bands, Dimmu Borgir, has been accused in the black metal scene of being too commercial, mainly because their music videos air on MTV. In my opinion, the interviews and comments of the band's mainman, Silenoz, clearly imply that he makes music so his opinions could be heard by a lot of people.

The Lordi phenomenon could be explained by how the public opinion sees metalheads in Finland. They are THE men, drinking lots and eating sausages(couldn't help but laugh on this matter because unlike most generalizations, this one is actually quite correct), not caring what other people think of them and other such manly things. The latter is also how the public opinion sees finnish men compared to the rest of the world. Therefore, in the eyes of the public, if you are metalhead, you are a representation of the finnish man. The public opinion supports this pop-metal because metal is seen as a finnish and a good thing and this pop-metal is the most acceptable form of metal music, as it does not really have any form of opinion or higher meaning in it.

The guitarist of lordi did church charity work before getting famous. How far from the "true" metal scene is that?

which public? the finifh men see themselves as "not caring what other people think of them and other such manly things."?

God is dead -- Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead -- God

The common opinion, the how most finnish men think of the typical finnish man. No they don't, but in their minds they are more like that than other nation's people, nevermind the reality. Not caring what other people think of them is really something most people just imagine they do, but in a particularly strong mind and will it could be reality. I don't claim to have one of these minds, but I'm trying to get one, even if it means abandoning the "human" way of thinking.

P.S. Good Nietzsche joke, but he had a great yet slightly paranoid mind. I thought the antisemitic writings were irony first time I read about those.

ja so i've heard, didn;t get into thus spoke zarathustra, is it worth while?

It has a couple of good ideas, but a lot of bad ones, too.

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Pardon my clatchian.

Is swearing actually forbidden?

"kl;atchian" and yes it is on accoutn of looking good and for the kiddies that occasioanally coe by...I suggest you send one of the nicer druids a sorry PM and sak them to clear it up...you generaly get a warning though for a forst time so no big beal

Boring. The best part of the Finnish language are the curses...

Hey...

Am I allowed to swear in Finnish?

no.

But you are welcome to swear in a language you've made up (As long as they don't bear any particular resemblence to swearwords we know already..... )

MS

this gives me an idea methinks

"oh poot"
(opera girl from "maskerasde"

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Perhantsunkkeli!

some day you shall teach me finnish

Really, all you need to know is the curses, and we have plenty and the best ones also.

well we have built our language around curses. some ppl dont even know there are other words

Are the curses the connection between Finnish-Ugric(just a good guess. Well you know, the language group in which Finnish and Magyar) languages?

finno-ugric or fin-ugor in magyr...maybe it is

Coolest ever! How about a "Most Powerful Curse Contest"?

avada kedavra...I win

Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.