The one that bears the Discoevil curse

My current hyperfixation being LORDI - a heavy metal/hard rock band from Finland! Yes, hi, I'm the person that spams the Lordi tag with my art.

I've seen them for the first time ever on Sabaton tour "Tour To End All Tours" in 2023, where they were sharing a stage with them and BabyMetal. Then I came back for "The Unliving Pictour Show" along with All For Metal in 2024. I was in love with these monsters on stage ever since, wanting to devote most of my time consuming the media and make art for the people I love.

Shows I went to!

SABATON - Tour to End All Tours 2023 (Lordi, Baby Metal), LORDI The Unliving Pictour Show 2024 (All For Metal), Nocny Kochanek PYRKON 2024, LORDI Limited Tour '25 First Deadition 2025 (Sick'N'Beautiful)

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That being said, now please pay attention:

Lordi are monsters on stage and have their own individual personas, hiding the performers real identities and private lives.

I depict the monsters in different scenarios in comics and sketches, that sometimes involve headcanons, ships (like Lizznoid or HauntedDoll), power dynamics, or even adult drawings like anatomy and nudity studies.

It's incredibly important to note that I am always separating the performer from their monster. Please respect the artists privacy, thank you.

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⛧What drawing program do you use?

⛥Krita!

⛧What are you drawing on?

⛥On a Huion Kamvas 13 connected to an overworked laptop.

⛧When do you stream?

⛥Mostly on fridays, usually at 5pm UTC+01:00 time on youtube, unless said otherwise!

⛧Where are you from?

⛥Wait... Guess 👀

I've had very strong feelings towards Mr. Lordi as a character and as a frontman. I think most people would agree that one of his strongest looks was the one from Arockalypse, and that's not because this one won Eurovision.

Arockalypse was one of the most crucial eras to get Mr.Lordi's look right, even if the band was as young as 9 years old (including Bend Over), and that is because it feels like the point where Mr. Lordi fully understood that the frontman design functions strongest when built around symmetry.

Everything was mostly evenly distributed on each side, which is why his silhouette might be so pleasing to look at. It's something that wasn't this prominent in Get Heavy, with one shoulder being off and the arm pieces different on each arm. Not only that, because despite Mr.Lordi being a complicated character, he is one who, after years, has gained the meaning of "sometimes less is more". In Arockalypse, he is the only monster that is wearing entirely black/gray (depending on the lighting), which draws your attention to him the most, because while everyone else has certain details, such as Ox having a black leather jacket, or Kita having red shoulder pads that are supposed to make his face pop. He IS the center of the stage, and you're supposed to look at him most of the time, even if he isn't holding props or when his wings aren't open.

Even though most people think that Lordi's makeup isn't the best, no matter the era, it's mostly about the overall design of what you see while standing from afar, it's important to distinguish Mr.Lordi from just his shadow, and that's where the shoulder pads come into play, because just like his hair, they're supposed to frame his face, and make him distinguishable due to the spikes he's wearing on each side. In other words, he's supposed to look the biggest out of all five.

Sometimes Mr.Lordi can't look good on his own; sometimes his costume structure is carried by the other band members, such as in Killection, where all of them carry grey colors, or in Screem Writers Guild, where everyone has a certain theme, so Lordi doesn't look like he's odd. I could argue that he looks weird when he's standing by himself. The symmetry or attempts at cohesiveness fall flat the moment Lordi started to play with it, such as in Monstereophonic or Scare Force One. All the nice symmetry is suddenly gone, replaced by odd patches of what we can only assume is skin all over L's armor. The pieces are spread across his shoulder, hand, knee, and foot; his face feels secondary, as everything else draws attention away from it, even if the makeup design itself is just as strong as in other eras. As for Scare Force One, I wish I had something smart to say. I have looked from many angles, tried so hard to understand and like their looks, especially after I fell in love with the album itself. While I understand what the style was going for, I don't think that it was in Mr.Lordi's intention to make his own character look like a hedgehog with mismatched kneecaps. I'm a firm believer that the costumes can completely change under bright lights during their performances. In many cases, I have seen them do absolute wonders, changing their shapes, making them appear clearer, in some cases, making them look much more menacing, yet the only era that failed was the SFO. It is probably the only case where it's bad that Mr.Lordi stands out the most, like a sore thumb. The "Less is more" definitely appears, once again, in Lordiversity, Sexorcism, and Limited Deadition, because he's usually entirely covered in just one shape or object. Let it be spikes, studs, shards, or anything of this sort. It doesn't clutter his look, because everything on him is of the same standard and shape, it doesn't make you want to cross your eyes.

Going back to what I was saying mostly about Mr.Lordi, we're going to stray from the entire album topic. Once I got much more into studying Lordi, I realized that while all monsters have unique designs to make them stand out, the thing that's always different about the vocalist is that he never changes at his core. The things that never change are that he has black hair, a beard, six horns, and he's always entirely covered in armor. It makes his image immediately go across as "monster", "demon", and as simple as it is, that's all it takes, because people who don't listen to Lordi usually remember his face the most. Those are aspects that are important to get right when drawing him as well. The scars don't always matter that much, but his face, eye, and nose shape are what's always important. And don't forget the eyes.

I don't know who might need to hear this, but Lordi DOES NOT EXPIRE.

Not gonna lie, this might be something that only I struggle with. I feel a certain sense of obligation to drop any project that was connected to the previous era, to make space for the new one, as I think people would rather be up to date with what Lordi has to offer. Which is obviously fucking stupid, DO NOT DO THIS.

There are multiple Screem Writers Guild projects I dropped the second that Limited Deadition was announced, because I knew that now SWG is out of date (not to mention the pressure of their 20th ESC anniversary and whatnot)

👏DON'T👏DO👏THIS👏 Lordi is timeless and pumps eras out like they owe someone rent. You should not rush, or feel the same dread that I do. Please do what you WANT to do and feel like doing, do not make some fake scenarios in your head of what people might do or not want to see.

I know a lot of people that have general bias towards eras that they personally like, and others that they think look straight up bad. There is no way to satisfy everyone, and you shouldn't do that.