Lordi: Celebs Rumors

Babymetal have been confirmed as the support for Sabaton‘s upcoming 2023 tour – see dates below and find tickets here.The news comes as the Japanese duo announced details of a new album called ‘The Other One’ earlier this month, bringing their hiatus to an end.Babymetal will join Finnish metal band Lordi on the UK and European leg of Sabaton’s ‘Tour To End All Tours’. The 2023 dates kick off in Leeds in April, finishing up in Kuopio in Finland on May 20.“We are extremely happy to welcome Babymetal to our already much anticipated tour in Europe 2023,” Sabaton bassist Pär Sundström said in a statement.

Lordi have joined forces with PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) to support the organisation’s ongoing campaign against animal testing.The Finnish heavy metal band – who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006 with ‘Hard Rock Hallelujah’ – posed for a new poster declaring that “animal testing is horrifying”, using their garish, horror-themed costumes and imagery to bolster the message. Pictured below the band is a rabbit that appears to have an unidentified device screwed into its scalp. Have a look at the poster below:A post shared by PETA UK (@petauk)In addition, Lordi have encouraged fans to show support for the European Citizens’ Initiative, launched by PETA in tandem with more than 100 animal protection groups, as well as brands like Dove and The Body Shop, to call on the European Union “to uphold and strengthen the animal testing ban for cosmetics”. In a press release issued by PETA, the org explained that “despite setting a global precedent, the ban is being undermined by new and unnecessary animal testing requirements for cosmetics ingredients that have been safely used for years”.It continued: “The ECI also calls for the transformation of EU chemicals regulations without the addition of new animal tests and for the establishment of a plan to end all animal experiments.”In a statement of their own, Lordi said: “The EU ban prohibiting cosmetics testing on animals is under threat because the Helsinki-based European Chemicals Agency is demanding that thousands of animals be subjected to cruel tests.

Lordi have revealed that they’ve recorded seven studio albums in just nine months.The Finnish heavy metal band, who won Eurovision in 2006 with ‘Hard Rock Hallelujah’, released an album in 2020 called ‘Killection’. The album was a fictional compilation album that the band say they would have written had they existed between the early 1970s and the mid-1990’s.The new collection of seven albums will be released as ‘Lordiversity’ on November 26 as either a seven-CD/vinyl box set.

Lordi have been announced as performers at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final.The 2006 Eurovision champs will join five other previous winners in Rotterdam this May, performing their winning single ‘Hard Rock Hallelujah’ for the Rock The Roof segment of the competition.The band will join Lenny Kuhr (‘De Troubadour’, 1969), Teach-In with Getty Kaspers (‘Ding-A-Dong’, 1975), Sandra Kim (‘J’aime La Vie’, 1986), Helena Paparizou (‘My Number One’, 2005) and Måns Zelmerlöw (‘Heroes’, 2015).The Eurovision Song Contest takes place on May 22 and comes after the event was cancelled last year for the first time in its 64-year history.“The Eurovision Song Contest is back after a year of absence,” explained Eurovision’s Head of Show Gerben