Apparently it's not just Serbia and Montenegro getting themselves worked up over this year's Eurovision; Finland's entry for this year's song competition is causing a bit of an outcry amongst, er, the Fins. Well, some of them anyway.
The band set to represent the country at Eurovision, Lordi, are a scary metal band with scary masks wielding scary chainsaws, and their track, 'Hard Rock Hallelujah' is considered to be a fairly radical departure from usual Euro-fare. Lordi were selected to represent Finland via a TV vote, and garnered a fairly conclusive 42% of the vote, so the band are clearly popular with at least some of their fellow countrymen.
The reaction to their success has been strong however, with people expressing their fears on internet message boards that the group's performance will damage Finland's reputation abroad, whilst some Finns have gone as far as to ask their president to intervene. Inevitable rumours that Lordi are goat killing devil worshippers have been fuelled by the fact that the band have refused to do any TV interviews and refuse to take off their scary masks, or reveal their real names, although possibly somewhat refuted by the fact that one of their hit songs is called 'The Devil Is A Loser'.
Father Mitro Repo, a Helsinki clergyman says the band's use of the name 'Lordi', which means 'the lord', is sacrilege. "I think it's a stupid joke of Finland," he says "Lord have mercy on us Finnish people now."