Killer On The Radio
I’m staying in Finland for this review as our monstrous men of the forest Lordi return for more scares and test me if you dare in ‘Killection’ and as the title suggests no one gets out alive. Set in a radio station the songs are interspersed with your usual radio jingles and chat show theme where callers can ring in to air their views.
‘Horror For Hire’ opens up the wound and we are immediately in slasher movie territory. If you loved ‘Hard Rock Hallelujah’ as much as I did then you’re right at home here, nestled in the arms of a demented killer, blissfully unaware of the impending chaos. It’s ‘fingernails on the blackboard’ time with ‘Shake The Baby Silent’ and then it’s that old chestnut love….everyone say aaahhhh. We discuss relationships, mainly those which are compounded by the need to walk away from something that is broken, but ‘Like A Bee To The Honey’ we always go back. ‘Apollyon’ has an almost soap opera style intro that belies its Greek mythological history, twinned with its Hebrew equivalent, Abaddon, we surf the bottomless pit of doom and misery. This band of brave souls even venture into a little Kix here with ‘Blow My Fuse’, you get the familiar down ‘n dirty rhythms as we shake our little booties and sing along to ‘you rock me in a way that makes me want to lose my mind’ –
oo-err missus.
The single is one of my favourites here, ‘I Dug A Hole In The Yard For You’ is very Murderdolls in its concept and execution, huge chorus, scrunchy, punchy guitars partnered with a gorefest video. The time change at 2.53 is reminiscent of ‘Steven’- Alice Cooper, sinister, a little bitter and twisted too. Head on to the dancefloor my friends and twirl your ‘Zombimbo’ around in this Frankenstein’s monster tale, told in the very funny peculiar and light-hearted way, Lordi have a great sense of humour, and make the most tragic of scenarios bearable. Do you solemnly swear you are ‘Up To No Good’? Well that’s grand as this one’s for you. Up next is another favourite , ‘Cutterfly’ and with the first line ‘I work with precision’ oh fuck I know what’s coming. Pull up a chair so the serial killer can sit down folks. The last radio jingle reveals the demon himself and we are left with the carnage, unable to do anything as we are a million miles away on the end of a radio broadcast.
This is overall a very theatrical and dramatic album, hugely spirited and entertaining, comparisons can be drawn to Meatloaf and our grand old terror dame Alice Cooper,
So, let’s take it from the top ladies and gents, from the blink of an eye to the flick of a knife.
It’s gonna be a long Lordi night.
Lordi – Killection out now via AFM Records.