Tag Archives: Lordi

Lordi, The Masterbeast From The Moon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The last of the digital downloads from the superbly entertaining box set Lordiversity by the masters of theatrical mayhem, Lordi, may be upon the fan and the curious public, but that doesn’t mean that the enjoyment is over, for in The Masterbeast From The Moon, what comes across is a sense of lasting revisit, the understanding that through the absolute vision that has gone into making this series of albums available in one go, the listener will return, will come back to each and every piece of recording because it is a performance of will, a creature that straddles the enigmatic and the preposterously brilliant.

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(402 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Lordi, The Skeletric Dinosaur. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It should be impossible to produce a continuous set of albums which deliver an unceasing amount of goodwill from the listener; after all, not everything can be enjoyed, be seen as a thrill, for sometimes, inevitably, the music must cease to be in synch with the listener, occasionally the groove must stop turning.

Lordi, The Skeletric Dinosaur. Album Review. full post

(421 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Lordi, Spooky Sextravaganza Spectacular. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Indisputable, incontrovertible, and as much as an extravaganza as the band insist that it be seen as, for as the all-encompassing box set Lordiversity continues to be released in digital format over separate weeks, an extravaganza is exactly what it is, and as the Spooky Sextravaganza Spectacular takes its rightful place in the pantheon of Lordi’s catalogue, and by doing so continues the surprising, but unquestionable truth, that the former Eurovision Song Contest winners are the arena filling band we all crave to see, because what happens in the studio is only a precursor to what will materialise on stage.

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(362 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Lordi, Abusement Park. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The music never wants to stop, and as part of the Lordiversity box set, why anyone would want the ideas to stem and falter, the feeling of theatre and back door music hall thespianism to halt at the point where the audience is now chomping at the bit in anticipation, and where the lady has not even arrived in a pre-booked horse and carriage at the stage door, let alone applied her make up and cleared her throat for the final curtain.

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(446 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Lordi, Humanimals. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The class just keeps flowing and surging through the releases under the extensive and noble effort that surrounds Finnish rockers Lordi and their seven series boxset Lordiversity; and three albums in the outstanding Humanimals takes its bow at the front of the pack and blows any thought of stagnation in the new year completely and utterly away.

Such is the strength of the songs that have burst forth that it can be seen as prophetic, almost visionary that it has taken such a band to do what others have failed to do in the past, continually deliver high drama, interest, and persuasion where others have faltered in their hunt for consistency over several albums in a short space of time.

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(476 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Lordi, Abracadaver. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

From such dreams, reality is created…and ambition to bring about the seemingly impossible must never be ignored.

The announcement of seven albums inside three months from acclaimed Finnish band Lordi might have struck fear in the hearts of the music lover, for how many bands have even gifted the world two in a year and seen the bottom fall out of the public’s affection; and when a certain Neo-Punk from the United States of America produced three inside a couple of months back in 2012 the fall out was heard across the world, forever putting the idea of multiple releases in such a short space of time out of the public domain.

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(476 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Lordi, Killection. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

“No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense (sic) soon lapses into the true character“, so observed Seneca The Younger, and it is pretence that we often seek the answers to the surreal and perplexing question of What If?

There are many scenarios to such a question, but for Finnish Metal Kings Lordi, the question has become posed in Time, the “What if” of a lost album, the sudden release, unexpected, unknown collection of songs that hark back to a period in which Glam Rock and the vibe of the 70s insight reigned supreme, it is to that supposed lost recording that Killection follows the path laid out by imagination and by the fortitude of expression.

Lordi, Killection. Album Review. full post

(382 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Lordi, Sexorcism. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When you have perfected the art of controversy, even if done so with tongue firmly in cheek, the only thing that can stop you from achieving further notoriety is the limit of your own imagination and the depth in which you wish people to see you dwell. Controversy is the bitterest aspects of fame but in many ways it is also the most heartening, it is the testament to the human psyche that sees society applaud those willing to push boundaries and art and be cynical as time goes by of those that played the game with padding underneath their broad shoulders.

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(454 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)