Lordi will release their tenth album, Killection, on January 31 via AFM Records. Not only is the album a brand new concept in itself - a fictitious collection of hits from the years and decades past - but it also brings a truly hidden gem into the daylight: one of the songs on the album is "Like A Bee To The Honey", which was written by KISS lead singer Paul Stanley together with Jean Beauvoir, known for working with names such as Bruce Springsteen, The Ramones and of course KISS. The song that had been collecting dust in Beauvoir's desk drawer ever since the end of the 1980's has now been handed down to Lordi.

"This is a tremendous honour to a band that wouldn't even exist without KISS. Simply having the privilege to listen to a song from the 1980's that no fan has ever heard before.. and then to get to be the artist that brings the song for everyone to hear - it is mind-blowing", Mr. Lordi states.

Mr. Lordi and the band's guitarist Amen had been making songs together with Jean Beauvoir as a trio, and one of these songs, "Scream Demon", made its way to the new album. It was during these songwriting sessions in Helsinki that the very existence of "Like A Bee To The Honey" came up: Jean thought the song would fit the new record perfectly, and the band was more than ready to get this rare gem on their album. The song is made even more unique by its saxophone solo - first one ever in Lordi's history - performed by the Hanoi Rocks legend Michael Monroe.

A lyric video for "Like A Bee To The Honey" can be found below.

Officially, Lordi were founded in 1992 by lead singer, songwriter, visual art designer and costume designer Mr. Lordi. The band has deep Finnish roots, originating from the city of Rovaniemi, in Lapland. In 2006 they celebrated their international breakthrough by winning the Eurovision Song Contest (“Hard Rock Hallelujah”). But is it possible that this is only a pale misperception of our poor, small, pathetic reality?

What if Lordi would have already been making music since the early 70's? And what if they have been releasing one hit single after the other since those times and now, almost 50 years later, are looking back on a full collection of songs that have been successful ever since? This is exactly the idea that Lordi are executing, with their newest studio album, Killection.

Killection will be released on January 31 via AFM Records. Once more Mr. Lordi, the master of the masquerade, presents us with one of his ideas, absurd and genius at the same time, and comes up with a concept that has never been done before in the music industry: Killection is a compilation album that simply says “what if” Lordi had been in existence since the early 70's. It contains all their imaginary hit singles from different periods done with painstaking attention to detail using authentic studios and vintage technology. This is how they would have sounded if Lordi would have made music back then and therefore would have had the hit material to release this compilation now.

This is how Mr. Lordi himself sums it up: "Killection is a fictional compilation album. It contains songs that Lordi would have written between the early 70's through the mid-90's. The compilation contains one "brand new" song from 2019 as well, cause that’s somehow always typical for compilations."

Killection tracklisting:

"Radio SCG 10"
"Horror For Hire"
"Shake The Baby Silent"
"Like A Bee To The Honey"
"Apollyon"
"SCG10 The Last Hour"
"Blow My Fuse"
"I Dug A Hole In The Yard For You"
"Zombimbo"
"Up To No Good"
"SCG10 Demonic Semitones"
"Cutterfly"
"Evil"
"Scream Demon"
"SCG10 I Am Here"

"Like A Bee To The Honey" lyric video:

"I Dug A Hole In The Yard For You" video:

"Shake The Baby Silent" lyric video:

Tour dates:

February
16 - Budapest, Hungary - Barba Negra
18 - Bratislava, Slovakia - MMC
20 - Bergamo, Italy - Druso
21 - San Dona/Venice, Italy - Revolver
22 - Klagenfurt, Austria - Stereo
23 - Wien, Austria - Szene
27 - Istres, France - L`usine
29 - Madrid, Spain - Shoko

March
1 - Barcelona, Spain - Razzmatazz 2
2 - Toulouse, France - Le Bikini
3 - Angers, France - La Chabada
5 - Epinal, France - Souris Verte
6 - Paris, France - La Machine de Moulin Rouge
7 - Sneek, Netherlands - Bolwerk
10 - Munchen, Germany - Backstage
12 - Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle
13 - Berlin, Germany - Kesselhaus
14 - Leipzig, Germany - Hellraiser
15 - Stuttgart, Germany - LKA
18 - Aschaffenburg, Germany - Colos Saal
19 - Nuernberg, Germany - Hirsch
20 - Memmingen, Germany - Kaminwerk
21 - Regensburg, Germany - Eventhalle Airport
22 - Prague, Czech Republic - Roxy
25 - Koln, Germany - Essigfabrik
26 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7
27 - Heidelberg, Germany - Hallo 02
28 - Schaffhausen, Switzerland - Kammgarn
29 - Amstelveen, Netherlands - P 60