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Samer Elnahhal

Samer Elnahhal, Lordi Recording New Album with Producer Michael Wagener

|    Mar 16, 2010

Samer Elnahhal (Bass), bassist since 2005 with Finnish horror-metal band Lordi, is in the studio recording the band’s fifth album with Michael Wagener (Ozzy, Metallica, Skid Row) producing.  

Formed in 1997, Lordi's image and sound combine hard rock music with horror movies. The band became very well known across Europe after winning the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest and has toured Europe, Japan and New Zealand several times along with US appearances on the main stage at Ozzfest (2007) and tours with Type O Negative (2007) and Lizzy Borden (2008). With over 600,000 worldwide album sales, Lordi’s catalog includes two collection albums and two live DVDs thus far as well as the 2008 horror film Dark Floors in which the band had bit parts as themselves.

 

 

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