Hard Rock Hallelujah

According to The Economist 85% of Finns are registered with the Lutheran church. Probably these guys too: the winners of this year's Eurovision song contest.

“We are not Satanists,” insists Lordi, leader of a heavy-metal group that scored a surprise victory in this year's competition. But nor, to judge by appearances, are they Sunday-school teachers. Lordi sports red-eyed skulls on his knees, with horns rising from his masked face. “It's a big change from those catchy numbers for pretty girls in hopelessly untrendy outfits,” sighs John Vickers, a veteran writer of Eurovision songs...

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