{"id":8822,"date":"2019-10-11T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=8822"},"modified":"2019-10-10T09:54:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T09:54:21","slug":"lordi-announce-new-album-and-euro-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=8822","title":{"rendered":"Lordi announce new album and Euro Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>AFM Records are extremely excited to announce the new album ‘Killection’<\/strong>\u00a0from the acclaimed Finnish Hard Rock\/Heavy Metal monsters\u00a0LORDI<\/strong>! \u00a0<\/span>
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\n‘Killection’ will hit the streets 31st January 2020 and this, the\u00a0<\/span>tenth album in the band\u2019s history, has turned out to be the most extraordinary and varied album so far.<\/span>
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\nRock\/Heavy Metal monsters LORDI were founded in 1992 by lead singer, songwriter, visual art designer and costume designer Mr. Lordi. The band has deep Finnish roots originating from the city of Rovaniemi in Lapland. In 2006 they celebrated their international breakthrough by winning the Eurovision Song Contest (‘Hard Rock Hallelujah’).<\/span>
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\nBut is it possible that this is only a pale misperception of our poor, limited reality?<\/span>
\nWhat if LORDI would have already been making music since the early 70’s? And what if they have been releasing one hit single after the other since those times and now, almost 50 years later, are looking back on a full collection of songs that have been successful ever since?<\/span>
\nThis is exactly the idea that LORDI are executing with their newest studio album Killection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Killection will be released on January 31st via AFM Records. Once more Mr. Lordi, the master of the masquerade, presents us with one of his ideas, absurd and genius at the same time, and comes up with a concept that has never been done before in the music industry: This is a compilation album that simply says \u201cwhat if\u201d LORDI had been in existence since the early 70’s. It contains all their imaginary hit singles from different periods done with painstaking attention to detail using authentic studios and vintage technology. This is how they would have sounded if LORDI had made music back then and therefore would have had the hit material to release this compilation now.<\/span>
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\nThis is how Mr. Lordi himself sums it up:<\/span>
\n“Killection is a fictional compilation album. It contains songs that LORDI would have written between the early ’70s through the mid-’90s. The compilation contains one “brand new” song from 2019 as well, cause that\u2019s somehow always typical for compilations.<\/em>“<\/span>
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\nLORDI –\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>KILLECTOUR 2020<\/strong><\/span>
\nPlus special guest<\/span>
\n16.02.20 HU-Budapest \u2013 Barba Negra<\/span>
\n18.02.20 SK-Bratislava \u2013 MMC<\/span>
\n20.02.20 ITA-Bergamo \u2013 Druso<\/span>
\n21.02.20 ITA-San Dona\/Venice \u2013 Revolver<\/span>
\n22.02.20 AUT-Klagenfurt \u2013 Stereo
\n23.02.20 AUT-Wien \u2013 Szene
\n27.02.20 F-Istres \u2013 L`usine<\/span>
\n29.02.20 ES-Madrid \u2013 Shoko<\/span>
\n01.03.20 ES-Barcelona \u2013 Razzmatazz 2<\/span>
\n02.03.20 D.Toulouse \u2013 Le Bikini<\/span>
\n03.03.20 F-Angers \u2013 La Chabada<\/span>
\n05.03.20 F-Epinal \u2013 Souris Verte<\/span>
\n06.03.20 F-Paris \u2013 La Machine de Moulin Rouge<\/span>
\n07.03.20 NED-Sneek \u2013 Bolwerk<\/span>
\n10.03.20 D-Muenchen \u2013 Backstage<\/span>
\n12.03.20 D-Hamburg \u2013 Markthalle
\n13.03.20 D-Berlin \u2013 Kesselhaus
\n14.03.20 D-Leipzig \u2013 Hellraiser
\n15.03.20 D-Stuttgart \u2013 LKA
\n18.03.20 D-Aschaffenburg \u2013 Colos Saal
\n19.03.20 D-Nuernberg \u2013 Hirsch
\n20.03.20 D-Memmingen \u2013 Kaminwerk
\n21.03.20 D-Regensburg \u2013 Eventhalle Airport
\n22.03.20 CZ-Prague \u2013 Roxy<\/span>
\n25.03.20 D-Koeln \u2013 Essigfabrik<\/span>
\n26.03.20 CH-Pratteln \u2013 Z7
\n27.03.20 D-Heidelberg \u2013 Hallo 02
\n28.03.20 CH-Schaffhausen \u2013 Kammgarn
\n29.03.20 NED-Amstelveen \u2013 P 60<\/p>\n