Biography
Apocalyptica Finnish group is not just a team, and a full-fledged music brand, famous thanks to the Kavever on Metallica. Critics argued for a long time, to which genre of music attributes creativity Apocalyptica, said that, although rockers play on classical instruments, they are not followers of symphonic rock due to the camera. Musicians came up with the direction specifically for themselves - Cello-Metal, which literally means "Metal, performed on cello." Apocalyptica has become not only the progenitor, but also the most vivid representatives of this genre.The history of creation and composition
At the beginning of the way, Apocalyptica included 4 cellists: Eykka Toppinen, Max Lylah, Paavo Lötienne and Antero Manninen. The guys studied together in the main musical university of Finland - the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and were often met in summer camps for instrumentalists.
During the next trip to the camp in 1993, friends decided to play at one of the evening concerts "something special." Each of the quartet loved "heavy" music, especially the Metallica group. It is their creativity in string processing, cello shared with "young musicians with classical education". Max Lylah recalls that "then we have fun to fame, moreover, even had a certain success!".
Metallica's hits were so harmoniously on the strings that the guys decided to seriously engage in creating crashes. Their first works heard only in the walls of the Academy. At one of the rehearsals, the name of the quartet was born - Apocalyptica. It is formed as a result of the addition of the word "apocalypse" with the name of the favorite group. Only after the acquisition of the name, the musicians decided to reach a real stage. In 1995, they became regulars of the Rock Clubs Helsinki.
At one of the speeches, Apocalyptica noted the producer of the local record company Zen Garden Record. He appreciated the new Metallica sound and suggested cellulars to release an album with cameras. At first they refused - they counted that no one would listen to the familiar tracks, but the producer insisted. So in 1996, a debut album was born with the simple name "Plays Metallic by Four Cellos" (from English. "Play Metallica on four cello).
Music
Only Metallica compositions in cellular arrangements were expected to the playlist "Plays Metallic by Four Cellos". These were "cream", collected from the whole at that time released discography of rockers: "ENTER SANDMAN", "MASTER OF PUPPETS", "THE UNFORGIVEN", 8 hits. In reprinting 2016, Apocalyptica added Bonus tracks: "Battery", "Seek and Destroy" and "Nothing Else Matters".250 thousand copies of the album scattered in a couple of months. It forced Apocalyptica to think about the seriousness of his business. Under the easy pressure of Mercury Records, the guys took up the record of the second album "Inquisition Symphony" (1998).
The track list "Inquisition Symphony" included 11 songs: Caverits on Metallica, Faith No More, Pantera and Sepultura, as well as three copyright songs created by Apocalyptica Eykki Toppinen leader. Another innovation of the album was added to some percussion compositions - before the quartet participants created music solely with cello. The move turned out to be winning, because Inquisition Symphony came to the top 10 national music rating.
In support of the album, the cellos removed the clips on the author's song "Harmageddon" and "Nothing Else Matters" Metallica. The rollers did not carry the semantic load, preferably demonstrated the skills of the quartet game. Promotes to promotion and 2-year tours in Greece, Poland, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Mexico, for whom yesterday's students abandoned their studies and work. Each concert was collected at least 2 thousand people, which is significantly for a modest Finnish team.
In 1999, Antero Manninen left the group, instead he came Perth Kiwilakso, who spoke with Apocalyptica before those became famous.
Cellos have released the following album "CULT" in October 2000. It is considered a turning point in the works of Apocalyptica, because only 3 channels included in the play list of 13 tracks: two on Metallica and one on Suit Edward Griega "in the mountain king cave." In addition, the musicians have increased the number of tools up to 80 cello to achieve a scope.
A year later, Apocalyptica has released a special edition of "CULT", which contained including the continuation of the tracks "Path" and "Hope" and the Live version of "Harmageddon". By the way, "Path Vol. 2 "is the first composition of the group in which there is a voice. Women's vocals belongs to a vocalist of Rock Group Guano Apes Sandra Nasich.
In 2002, Max Lylahu left Apocalyptica, and the crisis is in the team. Musicians cost considerable effort to persuade Antero Manninen back to the staff. Overcoming personnel difficulties, in 2003 the musicians released the fourth reflections studio, which fully consisted of the author's compositions composed predominantly Toppinen.
"Reflections" is the first album of cello, in which drums are used at full power. In 5 Songs for the installation, Dave Lombardo sat from Slayer, the rest of the time is the session drummer Koppmäki. Later, they themselves were replaced by Mikko Siren, which is now joining Apocalyptica only during the tour.
It seemed to surprise more to surprise, but here Apocalyptica added its mainly "dumb" compositions of vocals. In the recording of their eponymous fifth album of 2005, Villa Valo from HIM and Lauri Yulienne from The Rasmus ("Bittersweet"), Emmanuel Monet from Dolly (EN VIE) and Martha Yandov from Die Happy ("How Far" and "Wie Weit ").
The tour in support of "ApoCalyptica" was first discovered for US cellos and South America, just a program included more than 150 shows, including in Russia. With this country musicians, the soundtrack will also associate the soundtrack for the sporting drama "Fight with the shadow". This is not the author's composition of Finns, music was written by Alexey Shelygin.
The number of stars invited to Duets with Apocalyptica has steadily growing. In the record of the album "Worlds Collide" (2007) took part in Tille Lindemann from Rammstein ("Helden"), Corey Taylor from Slipknot and Stone Sour ("I'm Not Jesus"), ex-guitarist Three Days Grace Adam Giation ("I DON'T CARE ").
It is ironically, the track of the cello with Adam Mountains is located in the Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart on the 2nd place - between AC / DC and their Metallica cumin. And the song was headed by the Billboard Rock, making Apocalyptica the first Finns that entered the British rating.
To the history of the creation of "7th Symphony" (2010), the seventh studio album, put her hand even more vocalists. At NOT Strong Enough, they invited two soloists at once: at first she sang Brent Smith from Shinedown, and in the American version - Dagob Robb from Hoobastank.
Apocalyptica canceled part of the tour in support of "7th Symphony" to prepare for the 200th anniversary of the Birth of Richard Wagner's composer. The result was two concerts in Leipzig and the Live album "Wagner Reloaded-Live in Leipzig" (2013).
Songs from the SHADOWMAKER plate (2015) performed only one vocalist Franki Perez. According to Toppinen, "This fact makes the album more solid." It was assumed that Peres will take place among the Apocalyptica participants, but the cellolists noted that "2-year-old tour expose his role in our biography." In 2016, the cellos went on tour in honor of the 30th anniversary of the Debut Album "Plays Metallic by Four Cellos". By the end of 2018, the number of the show exceeded 250.
Apocalyptica now
On March 4, 2019, Apocalyptica was published on the official page in "Instagram" collective photos with a signature:
"Getting started! Write down the 9th Studio Album! We are very excited and at the same time scared! Hooray!!".Since then, the cellolists led to the broadcast from the studio literally live, reported fans about each finished song. In May of the same year, the musicians released a Caver on the song Sabaton "Fields of Verdun", and at the end of the month they reported that the new album is almost ready. Approximate release date - the beginning of the 2020th, and the first single was represented by the fall of 2019.
Apocalyptica Recording Planned with Plays Metallica by Four Cellos tour. The musicians performed in the cities of the United States, Finland, France, Spain, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Japan, the United Kingdom. The final show took place on October 9, 2019 in the capital of the Philippines - Manila.
Discography
- 1996 - "Plays Metallic by Four Cellos"
- 1998 - "Inquisition Symphony"
- 2000 - "Cult"
- 2003 - "Reflections"
- 2005 - "Apocalyptica"
- 2007 - "WORLDS COLLIDE"
- 2010 - "7th Symphony"
- 2015 - "Shadowmaker"
Clips
- 1996 - "The UnforGiven"
- 1998 - "Harmageddon"
- 2000 - "Path"
- 2001 - "Path Vol.2"
- 2004 - "Bittersweet"
- 2005 - "Repressed"
- 2007 - "I'm not jesus"
- 2008 - "I DON'T CARE"
- 2010 - "NOT STRONG ENOUGH"
- 2015 - "Cold Blood"
- 2016 - "Battery"