LORDI Fans Furious At 'Outing' By Gossip Magazine

May 26, 2006

Finland's Helsingin Sanomat has issued the following report:

The latest issue of the weekly celebrity gossip magazine 7 Päivää (Seven Days, generally known hereabouts as Seiska) has caused a storm of protest from fans of the monster-metal Eurovision Song Contest winners LORDI.

The paper published a picture on its cover and accompanying an article inside that shows the face of the band's leader and vocalist Mr. Lordi, or Tomi Putaansuu, without the customary horror-movie make-up and stage costume. [Check out pictures of Tomi Putaansuuwith and without his stage costume.]

The paper went ahead and published the image in spite of a number of statements by the singer immediately after LORDI's victory in Athens, requesting that the media would refrain from seeking paparazzi pictures of band-members without their stage outfits, in order not to destroy the mystique surrounding the fantasy-figure band.

The reaction among heavy metal fans and others to the Seiska action was swift and overwhelmingly negative. The weekly's online message board was filled on Wednesday with angry responses from LORDI devotees. A good many others declared they were not in fact active fans of the monster-rockers, but were merely disgusted with the paper's actions.

An Internet petition calling for a boycott of the magazine had been signed by more than 180,000 by midnight on Thursday night, according to the person who originally drafted and posted the petition.

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