Apocalyptica

Apocalyptica is a Finnish musical group, also known metal pieces plays the cello in addition to their own songs. The band refers to their genre itself as cello rock.

Band History

The founding members Toppinen, Paavo Lötjönen, Max Lilja, and Antero Manninen met at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki know and decided to play tracks from their favorite band Metallica on the classic musical instrument cello. When testing at the Academy, they chose it in four pieces. On this basis, in 1996 came the album Apocalyptica Plays Metallica by four cellos, which at a stroke in the scene had to be very aware of the four. The name " Apocalyptica " is composed of the Greek word apocalypse and the end of the name of Metallica.

Also on their subsequent albums they covered more tracks from Slayer, Sepultura, Faith No More and Rammstein. In addition, they also increasingly composed his own pieces. Apocalyptica 1998 was the opening act for Metallica in Helsinki. In 1999 there were the first reshuffle, as Antero Manninen left the band in favor of the Lahti Symphony. Perttu Kivilaakso joined the group then. He had graduated in 1996 with the band a few appearances, but was at that time not a permanent member. Since he was only 17 in 1996, Toppinen held him still too young. In addition Kivilaakso wanted to bring yet his studies at the Sibelius Academy to an end. In 2001 she took up with singer Guano Apes, Sandra Našić, the Single Path Vol 2, with which it ranked 8th in the Finnish charts and reached into the German court 41. It was followed by further collaborations with, among others, Matthias Sayer (Farmer Boys) and Nina Hagen, with whom she produced a cover of Rammstein songs sailor. Furthermore coverte Apocalyptica also by the East German band Silly Song battalion D' Amour, who was a few years previously assessed by Joachim Witt in the German charts.

On their third album Cult Apocalyptica translated for the first time a percussion elements to support their pieces. On the album Reflections they added a drum added as an accompaniment. In the studio this played Dave Lombardo of Slayer, among others. In live performances, it is usually played by Mikko Sirén, which is a full member of the group since December 2005.

2002 Max Lilja left the band and joined the Finnish music groups Hevein and Tekijä Tuntematon. With live performances by Apocalyptica his part is now often taken over by the founding member Antero Manninen.

In 2005, she participated along with Marta Jandová, the singer of The Happy, part of the Federal Vision Song Contest. She represented the state of Baden- Württemberg called How Far, which is the German version of the original instrumental piece Quutamo. They occupied with 77 points in fifth place. Marta Jandová also sang the English version of How Far. The French version of De Vie was sung by Emmanuelle Monet, the singer of the French band dolly.

Quutamo is also part of the album Apocalyptica, which was published in 2005. The commercial success of this album led to the three musicians breakthrough in Germany after it ( The Rasmus ) had already had a Top 10 hit with the single Bittersweet together with Ville Valo (HIM) and Lauri Ylönen. For the first time they came out with this album in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the top 10 of the album charts.

On 12 May 2007 Apocalyptica took on the appearance in the pause during the counting of votes at the Euro Vision Song Contest in Helsinki. Their set list included a piece of her new album, Worlds Collide, and the instrumental versions of Faraway and Life Burns! .

Your sixth studio album Worlds Collide, they released on 14 September 2007 in Germany. The single I'm not Jesus, which was created together with Corey Taylor, along with video was released on 31 August 2007 before. A little later the pieces Worlds Collide, Peace and SOS ( with Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil as a singer ) on their MySpace page appeared. Among other things they were working on their new album with Rammstein singer Till Lindemann (Heroes - German cover version of David Bowie's Heroes ), Tomoyasu Hotei ( Grace ), Dave Lombardo (drums part in the play Last Hope ) and Adam Gontier ( I Do not Care ) together.

In addition, designed Toppinen 2007 soundtrack to the film Black Ice.

The seventh studio album 7th Symphony the band released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on August 20, 2010.

In December 2011, Apocalyptica occurred in San Francisco with Metallica on, as this celebrated its 30th anniversary with four concerts in the music club "The Fillmore ": They accompanied the first night James Hetfield with the song No Leaf Clover and One.

Discography

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Studio albums

Live albums

  • 2013: Wagner reloaded - Live in Leipzig

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