lordi tour 2007

LORDI - North American Spring Tour Dates Announced

The End Records report that Finland’s monster rock n’ roll band LORDI, who will release The Arockalypse March 20th, on The End, have announced several dates of their upcoming inaugural tour of North America.

The 'monster invasion' will start April 20th, 2007 in Anaheim, CA at House Of Blues and end with a two-night stint at the Bamboozle music festival in East Rutherford, NJ.

About touring in North America for the first time, frontman Mr. Lordi says, "I’m really anxious to see how the audiences are gonna react to us. From our point of view touring the States is like ‘coming home.’ I know it sounds weird for a Finnish band to say that but we are often described as the ‘most American band’ in Finland. [laughs] You see all of our influences, mostly musical and visual, come from the States, so… we’re keeping our fingers crossed."

The following confirmed dates and venues are:

April
20 - Anaheim, CA at House of Blues
21 - Hollywood, CA at Avalon
22 - San Francisco, CA at Slims
24 - Denver, CO at Gothic Theatre
27 - Chicago, IL at Metro
28 - Detroit, MI at Harpo's

May
1 - Montreal, QC at Le Spectrum
2 - Philadelphia, PA at Trocadero
3 - Baltimore, MD at Recher Theatre
5 - East Rutherford, NJ at Bamboozle
6 - East Rutherford, NJ at Bamboozle

A few more select dates will be confirmed soon and posted. The band is also scheduled to tour Japan prior to their North American tour. Dates include:

April
6 - Seoul, S. Korea at Melon Ax Hall
9 - Tokyo, Jpn at Shibuya O-East
11 - Tokyo, Jpn at Shibuya O-East
12 - Osaka, Jpn at IMP Hall
13 - Nagoya, Jpn at Shimun-kaikin Chu-Hall

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LORDI Announce Ozzfest Off-Dates


Finland’s monster rock n’ roll band LORDI - who will make their inaugural tour of North America this summer as part of
Ozzfest 2007 - have announced the following Ozzfest Off-Dates.

July
23 - House of Blues - Anaheim, CA

August
11 - Metro - Chicago, IL
19 - Club Soda - Montreal, QC
25 - The Mod Club - Toronto, ON

Lordi released their album The Arockalypse' on March 20th, in North America via The End Records.

In other news, the band is currently home in Finland working on their upcoming horror movie, called Dark Floors. The band was recently at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival promoting the film. Also, a limited edition, one-time world pressing vinyl version of The Arockalypse is now available from The End Records’ mailorder site, The Omega.

Here is the information regarding the vinyl versions of the album:

180g 2xLP with heavy stock gatefold jackets, printed LP sleeves

Total Pressing 2000 copies:
500 – Black
500 – Clear
500 – Clear with red splatter
500 – Blue with red splatter (not available until Ozzfest)

The vinyl version of 'The Arockalypse' is the first time any of the band's material has been released on vinyl format. About the limited release, Mr. Lordi comments, "I've personally done all of the artwork for each Lordi album. And the way I’ve always made them was with the vinyl artwork in mind. You know what I mean? So finally, the album is going to be release in the format it was always meant to be. I hope that our previous albums will soon follow."