HARD ROCK HALLELUJAH - LORDI
“Hard Rock Hallelujah” opens with a church organ that sounds the requiem for taking rock too damn seriously. Lordi glories in a rave-up that stomps nu metal’s sobbing inner child into the ground with platform monster boots. True, “Hallelujah” isn’t far removed from ’80s hair metal, but it doesn’t depend on of-the-moment production, so it reduces the cringe factor 10 years down the road. This Finnish import won 2006’s Eurovision Songwriting Contest — and is playing the Bamboozle Fest this spring — for a reason. People want some fun served straight up, no chaser, with their rock. Billboard
