LORDI's New Single Available In Finnish Post Offices

December 19, 2006

ESCToday.com reports that Finnish heavy metal monsters LORDI and and the Finnish Post are collaborating in a wide range of LORDI merchandise besides the postal stamp that will be released in May 2007. Packaging boxes in various sizes and postcards are available, and LORDI's latest single is sold excusively via post offices. The LORDI merchandise machine has gone into overdraft with the unusal release of their Christmas single "It Snows in Hell". The third single from the band's triple-platinum-certified (for sales in excess of 90,000 copies) album "The Arockalypse" follows the success of Eurovision Song Contest 2006 winner "Hard Rock Hallelujah" and "Who's Your Daddy?" It has been released in a special Christmas-card-plus-envelope packaging, so you can send it as a Christmas card to your friends. Despite costing 9.90 euros and not being sold in the usual record stores, it entered the Finnish chart last week at No. 2.

In addition to the postal packages in various sizes featuring LORDI, post offices also have a good selection of LORDI postcards. In the past few years Finnish post offices have changed a lot and compete now with various book stores and craft shops. You can buy postcards, books, chocolates and candy ready to be send, little gifts, souvenirs and a lot of other things besides stamps. These LORDI products are a welcome addition to their good selection of packaging material for different occasions.

Since winning the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest in May, LORDI's dream has grown to gargantuan heights. Besides conquering numerous European charts the band has been given their own credit card though Finland's Sampo Bank, as well as their own softdrink (Lordi Cola),LORDI candy, LORDI kebab, and comic book. A restaurant chain is coming, and, of course, coins will follow in May 2007.

As previously reported, LORDI has signed a North American deal with The End Records. "The Arockalypse" will be released in North America on March 20, 2007, with bonus tracks and a DVD.

LORDI is currently planning its first-ever jaunt of North America this spring and is confirmed for a two-night stint at the annual Bamboozle festival, set for May 5 and 6 in East Rutherford, N.J.

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