''Deadache'' is the fourth studio album by Finnish rock band Lordi, released in Finland on 29 October 2008. For the release of the album the band renewed their monster outfits. ''Deadache'' was released during the same week in about thirty countries. The official album release party was held at the Tavastia Club in

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on 31 October 2008 ( Hallowe'en). The first single from the album, " Bite It Like a Bulldog", was released on 3 September 2008. By November 2008, Deadache had sold 1,700 copies in the United States.

Recording

Lordi started the recording of ''Deadache'' on 7 May 2008. For the album, the group had sixty

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to choose from; fourteen of them were chosen by the band and record company to be recorded. All members of the group contributed songs to the album. The recordings were finished in June, the group then went on tour in Europe.

Press

Band members Kita and Amen said the following about the ''Deadache'': ita"It's an old title. We had that song back in the '90s already, a song called 'Deadache', and our singer, Mr. Lordi, thought that he made that up, that whole word. Like, headache and deadache, but he heard it actually means something." r. Amen"It actually, the title, it means something. Actually we had sixty songs to choose from and we picked out fifteen songs. We didn't think any (musical) directions or anything, we just did what we have." ita"Usually we don't think (laughs)"

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"We do what feels good with it."

Music

''Deadache'' is a melodic hard rock album, but has a heavier sound and includes more horror-themes than Lordi's previous albums. The album has more keyboard parts than '' The Arockalypse'', and the song "The Rebirth Of The Countess", composed by the keyboard player Awa, includes a spoken part in French. "Missing Miss Charlene" includes singing by a children's choir, with the outro being already recorded in 1986 by a 12-year-old Mr. Lordi and some of his friends from his hometown of

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. The organ in the intro and between the verses in the song "The Devil Hides Behind Her Smile" is taken from "The Phantom of the Opera".

Track listing

Bonus tracks

There are five different versions of the album, four of which have different bonus tracks. Each version was released by a different record company, hence the differing tracks.

Personnel

Lordi * Mr Lordi – vocals, artwork, art direction, layout * Amen – guitars * Kita – drums, backing vocals, engineering *OX – bass * Awa – keyboards Additional musicians *Eric Schäfer – outro (13) *Pete Kangas – outro (13) *Johanna Askola-Putaansuu – noise (5) *Sandra Mittica – voice (9) *Frida – noise (3) *Shoemaker's Kids Quire – choir Production *Tracy Lipp – recording *Jari Pailamo – engineering *Jetro Vainio – engineering *Ossi-Isso Tuomela – engineering *Jesse Vainio – mixing *Svante Forsbäck – mastering *Nino Laurenne – production *Petri Haggrén – photography

Chart

Release history

References

{{Authority control 2008 albums Lordi albums The End Records albums GUN Records albums