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To Beast or Not to Beast

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Length
  
43:10

Artist
  
Lordi

Producer
  
Michael Wagener

To Beast or Not to Beast (2013)
  
Scare Force One (2014)

Release date
  
1 March 2013

Label
  
AFM Records GmbH

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Released
  
1 March 2013 (2013-03-01)

Recorded
  
1 September – 30 October 2012

Genres
  
Heavy metal, Hard rock, Shock rock

Similar
  
Lordi albums, Heavy metal albums

To Beast or Not to Beast is the sixth studio album of Finnish hard rock band Lordi that was released on 1 March 2013. As is traditional for the band, their costumes were renewed again for the release of this album. The album was produced and mixed by Michael Wagener and engineered by Shani Gandhi.

Contents

In Germany the album was released in digipak covers. The album has been released as LP version in EMP store.

Lordi we re not bad for the kids


Trivia

  • This album breaks from the Lordi tradition of having the first track being an SCG track; the SCG track on this album is instead the final track.
  • It also breaks tradition with the album title. In all their previous albums, the album title is also the title of one of the songs (Bend Over and Pray the Lord, Get Heavy, Deadache, Babez for Breakfast) or the title is part of the lyrics in a song somewhere on the album (The Monsterican Dream are lyrics in "Blood Red Sandman" and The Arockalypse are lyrics in "Hard Rock Hallelujah"). This album, however, does not contain a song called To Beast or Not to Beast, nor is it anywhere in the lyrics for any of the songs.
  • The album title was originally planned to be "Monsterial Phonica". But after Kiss released their album "Monster", Mr. Lordi thought that their album's name was too close to that so the band changed it to be "Upgradead". However, the band did not consider it an A-class name. Just few months before the release of the album, Amen came up with the final title, which the band felt suitable and perfect.

    • Credits

  • Mr. Lordi – vocals
  • Amen – guitars
  • Mana – drums
  • OX – bass
  • Hella – keyboards
  • Otus – drums on SCG6: Otus' Butcher Clinic
  • Kita – drums on Hulking Dynamo
  • Enary – keyboards on Hulking Dynamo
  • Magnum – bass on Hulking Dynamo

    • Songs

    1We're Not Bad For The Kids (We're Worse)3:23
    2I Luv Ugly3:48
    3The Riff3:45

    References

    To Beast or Not to Beast Wikipedia
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