During their career, the Finnish rock group Lordi has been forced to shove their heavy metal boots up countless adversaries asses. Yet without exception, it has been their opponents, not Lordi, who have found themselves knee-deep in shit.

Following their initial selection to represent Finland at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, Greece, religious leaders in Finland were demanding president Tarja Halonen to veto their entry. In Greece the reception was equally hostile. Number of organizations and other likely narrow minded individuals tried to stop Lordi from taking part, some going as far as initiating legal actions.

Everyone knows how that sad piece of business ended. Lordi went on to take the Eurovision 2006 title with the highest points ever scored (292) in any international competition in history (excluding cricket).

Lordi at MTV Crib’s

In 2007 Lordi has been busy touring in Japan, the United States and Europe. Currently Lordi is back in the US, touring with the 2007 Ozzfest until the end of August. Success has caused more “Lordi-haters” to surface. This time the front man of an American based heavy metal group Gwar has attacked Lordi in an interview. The groups vocalist Oderus Urungus, who cleverly refers to himself as “The Ruler of Earth” has been referring to Lordi as “Gwar-Lite” and quoted as saying that: “They (Lordi) are like a kiddie version of GWAR”. Gwar have continued to attack Lordi at their concerts, where the singer has been waiving a replica head of Lordi at the end of a stick while performing on stage.

Gwar Guitarist Flattus Maximus

It seems that Lordi, “The Bastard Son of a Thousand Megalomaniacs” and “The Hulk from Hell”, has somehow managed to keep his high octane temper from the burning netherworld cool. Although so far Lordi has publicly spared Gwar from his wrath, anyone with a half of a brain should tell the Gwar boys that its just not smart to try to go after “The Unholy Overlord of Tremors” and the company he keeps.

Oderus Urungus’s mum offered some insight into the altercation and was quoted saying: “Dave or Oderus as he likes to be called, is just upset since I didn’t let him go to the Lordi concert with his friends”. Apparently Dave had stayed in his room all that night dressed in his costume and even refused to come down for dinner in the evening.

Dave’s friend Todd

It remains to be seen whether “The Most Fearsome Khan of All” will end up giving Dave and his friends a break this time.