Mr Lordi

Lordi has written songs and provided album artwork for bands such as Rotten Sound, Jope Ruonansuu, Domination Black, Grandevils and Agnes Pihlava. He has also had a few art exhibitions in Finland. All publicity photographs of Mr Lordi have his face concealed with his mask and stage makeup.

• Name — Mr Lordi • Birth Name — Tomi Petteri Putaansuu • Alias — Mr Lordi Hulk from Hell Biomechanic Man Mr L • Born — 15 February 1974 • Birthplace — Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland • Occupation — Musician, songwriter, painter, special effects make-up artist, comics artist, graphic designer • Instrument — Vocals, guitar, drums • Years Active — 1987–present • Current Member Of — Lordi

Before Lordi, Mr Lordi had played in many rock bands from Rovaniemi and was best known as the lead singer for his former band Wanda Whips Wall Street. He founded Lordi as his solo project in 1992, when he was 18 years old. He produced the first demo, Napalm Market, in 1993. Mr Lordi described Lordi's desired sound as "a song made by Kiss back in 1983, covered by Pantera in 1992 and remixed by Puff Daddy". Lordi became a band four years later when Mr Lordi met Lordi's original line-up during a Finnish Kiss cruise, organised by himself as a president of Kiss Army Finland. While working as storyboard artist, Mr Lordi spent his freetime producing the first Lordi album Bend Over and Pray the Lord in 1997. He could, however, not find a publisher for the album and it was left unreleased. Since then, he has also illustrated a comic book featuring Lordi. After 2002, when the first single "Would You Love a Monsterman?" and the album Get Heavy were finally released by BMG Finland, Mr Lordi is still responsible for all the album artwork, merchandise design and masks and outfits of the band members. The songs he writes along with the other band members. • Illustration — Mr Lordi performing at Rockharz Open Air 2024 Mr Lordi has written songs and made album covers for many Finnish bands and artists like Rotten Sound, Agnes Pihlava and Neljänsuora. Outside Finland, Mr Lordi has been featured as a live guest on U.D.O.'s and Doro Pesch's concerts. In 2011, Mr Lordi created his own choir from Rovaniemi for the Finnish version of the Clash of the Choirs miniseries. He named his choir "Rock'n'Rollo" and invited the choir to perform in Lordi's anniversary concert in 2012.

Born and raised in Rovaniemi, Mr Lordi became interested in monsters and special effects in his early youth, in major part through horror movies. He was also a fan of The Muppet Show and E.T. and was introduced to heavy metal through his friend Risto Niemi, when he was eight years old. Always interested in masks and visual performances, he took special interest in Alice Cooper, W.A.S.P., Mötley Crüe, Kiss and Twisted Sister. He started bands with his friends and designed logos and album covers for all of them. Mr Lordi did not do well at school – except for music and drawing. After years, he graduated as a media designer, specialising himself in video editing. He made Lordi's first music video, "Inferno", a seven-minute combination of horror fantasy and heavy metal music video, in 1995. The video featured Mr Lordi's friends in heavy makeup and masks and horror decorations made by Mr Lordi – and Mr Lordi himself singing without any makeup. Shortly thereafter, he met his future band members on a Kiss Army trip to Sweden and Lordi turned into a real band with four members – Mr Lordi, G-Stealer, Enary and Amen. He married his long-time girlfriend Johanna Askola in early August 2006 in his home town Rovaniemi. The couple divorced in 2015.

• Illustration — Mr Lordi holding up his axe, 2009 Like the other members in the band Lordi, Mr Lordi too has a fictional background story and appears as fictional monster in comic books and music videos of Lordi. His character has been described as the names "The Hulk from Hell", "The Most Fearsome Khan of All", "The Biomechanical Man" and "The Unholy Overlord of All Tremors". His best-known weapons are his biomechanic armour and an axe. The fictional history of Mr Lordi tells that his father was a Demon of the South named the Duke of the Demons and his mother a Troll of the North named Angel. The Demons invaded Lapland and raped the Trolls. As a bastard son of both, Mr Lordi received the supernatural powers of them and during centuries appeared as several historical figures, such as Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Vlad the Impaler and Ivan the Terrible. After defeating the Demons and Trolls, as the Lord of Lapland, he rode in a sleigh, given to him by Santa Claus (Puuhkalakki), pulled by flying zombie reindeer. According to one theory, Mr Lordi has spent centuries searching for his "One True Love", but has not found her. Kalmaged the Time-traveller tells that Mr Lordi has integrated himself to the magnetic field of the Earth and thus controls the whole planet and can now travel between different dimensions effortlessly. Mr Lordi has personally gathered the other band members as allies in the trans-dimensional war against their enemies.

• Various artists: Rovaniemi Rokkaa (1992) – includes Wanda Whips Wall Street's song "You're Dead Wrong" • Various artists: Rockmurskaa (1995) – includes Lordi's song "Inferno" and Wanda Whips Wall Street's song "Caught the Black Fire" • Agnes Pihlava: When the Night Falls (2006) – includes Mr Lordi's written song "Danger in Love" • 1827 Infernal Musical: 1827 Infernal Musical (CD, 2010) – includes Mr Lordi's written song "Devil's crashing the party" • Neljänsuora: Valtava Maailma (2011) – includes Mr Lordi's written song "Testamentti" • Martti Servo: RoPS- Sinisellä Sydämellä (song, 2013) – song written by Mr Lordi

• Häjyt (1999) – storyboard • Historiaa tehdään öisin (1999) – storyboard • Kuilu (2001) – special effects make-up • Rölli ja metsänhenki (2001) – storyboard • Pahat pojat (2003) – storyboard • The Kin (2004) – script/acting/storyboard/special effects make-up/music • Dark Floors (2008) – script/acting/theme song • Monsterman (2014) – documentary film about Mr Lordi and Lordi

• Rotten Sound: Psychotic Veterinarian (1995) • Domination Black: Fearbringer (2005) • Martti Servo & Napander: Kestävällä pohjalla (2010) • Rockamania: Rockamania (2010) • Jope Ruonansuu: Jopetusministeri (2011) • Jope Ruonansuu: Veljekset kuin kyljykset (2012)

• Kulmagalleria: Mr Lordi's art exhibition (8–30 August 2009) • Kulmagalleria: Ihmeellistä Mautonta Menoa (7–30 October 2011) • Kauppakeskus Revontuli: Vistoja Kuvia (13 July – 11 August 2012)

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