Country of origin: Finland Location: Tornio, Lappi (early); Espoo, Uusimaa (later) Status: Active Formed in: 1992 Genre: Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Themes: Horror, Gore, Rock/Metal Current label: Reigning Phoenix Music Years active: 1992-present The band wears monster costumes. Mr. Lordi was born and grew up in the northern Finnish city of Rovaniemi. However, he founded the band when he was studying in Tornio. The band was originally a side project of Mr. Lordi. The band recorded an album in 1999 called Bend over and Pray the Lord that wasn't officially released until 2012 as part of the Scarchives Vol. 1 compilation. LORDI is a Finnish hard rock and melodic heavy metal band, originally formed in 1992 by the band's lead singer, songwriter, visual art designer and costume maker, Mr Lordi. The band has been touring actively since 2002 and it´s known for the monstrous look and the horror elements in the stage performance and music videos. With catchy songs and screaming riffs, the horrific lyrics will stick in your mind whether you like it or not. 
 On 26th of November 2021 the band is releasing "Lordiversity" - a boxset containing SEVEN new studio albums, which will mark the first new music from LORDI since the arrival of 2020's "Killection", a fictional compilation album which contained songs that LORDI would have written had the band existed between the early 1970s and the mid-1990s. The albums will sound all different from each other, they're all in different styles and fictional eras in the Killection timeline. 
 Mr. Lordi (vocals), Mr. Kone (guitar), Mr. Hiisi (bass), Mr. Mana (drums), Ms. Hella (keyboards)