Hi there ! This is my first actual music post and I made the choice to talk about one of my favorite bands. The avatar I use is a picture I made at a concert of theirs... So:
Who are they ??
Well… normally I would quote wikipedia but not this time ! I’m gonna tell you what I know about this band that I find interesting.
First thing you should know: they only use the cello (and since 2005 also a drum) to play their songs. If you are thinking; “Hell no, no boring classic music for me, thanks” then you should also know that they started out playing Metallica songs with those cello’s… And that they still play heavy-metal songs although they now also have some songs of their own.
For starters play this song in the background: it is a metallica cover from the album Inquisition Symphony. If you don't recognise the song, you haven't been in the metal section of this forum alot have you?
There now that we have some music playing this will be much more interesting:
They started out playing metallica songs just for fun but when performing in this metal club named “the Teatro Heavy Metal Club” they struck Kari Hynninen as perfect and thus that evening Kari, being a worker at the independent Zen Garden Records, immediately signed them to his label. And so it was that Apocalyptica sprung into the picture.
Their first album “plays metallica by four cello’s”
only had metallica covers on it, as you might have guessed from the title.
By now you probably (and hopefully) recognised our previous song: Nothing Else Matters.. Nothing else matters wasn’t on this album just yet… They preferred to play faster songs so anyone who knows metallica will now spontaneously think of songs like “master of puppets” “enter sandman” and “Harvester of sorrow”. These being the first 3 songs on that album…
Here you go: listen to master of puppets:
I have been to a few apocalyptica concerts, and I can tell you, to hear this song live… it changes you. It really does. Never again will I listen to metallica or apocalyptica in the same way… I was 16, average age in the audience was 30, (they weren’t as famous as nowadays)… 300 ppl in a small concert room. And almost 300 ppl singing along with the song…
Come crawling faster
Obey your Master
Your life burns faster
Obey your Master
Master!
That is how I picture heaven to be… Big crowds singing to a non vocal cover of a song I love.
Anyway: back to reality…
after that album came many more and until this day forward, they almost have no bad albums... If you want to check them out, try a best off or the "amplified" album (which is a best-off, but amplified.)
I'll do a follow-up on their other albums later to keep the interest going?!
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Excellent choice Oblivion. You introduced me to this group, and I must say I dont regret it. For those of you who dont know Apocalyptica they are very similar to Nightwish, Blind Guardian, or Sonata Arctica.
this song is an excellent song from the World's Collide album:
I Don't Care The song starts out mellow and builds to a pure spell binding jam.
Excellent choice Oblivion. You introduced me to this group, and I must say I dont regret it. For those of you who dont know Apocalyptica they are very similar to Nightwish, Blind Guardian, or Sonata Arctica
Now magic, your a goddess of knowledge in most cases, but your comment there has bonfuzzled me. I would not compare them to any of those bands more then just to say, there are amazing and metal.
But anywho, I love apocalyptica, and Plays Metallica..., is always on my playlists because it is just so amazing. Cello's were never that interesting to me until they turned them into the metal instrument.
And Oblivion, that does sound like heaven....I got shivers just thinking about it.
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Listening to "Nothing Else Matters" on YouTube. I have the Metallica SF Symphony dvd and thought nothing could be more beautiful but the Apocalyptica version is giving me chills.
After the plays metallica album (2years later) they produce a second studio album named: inquisition symphony. Now you already know one song from this album (see above: nothing else matters) but this album isn’t just metallica covers alone…
Those who know the metal scene a bit will recognise the album name.. It’s a sepultura song.... And the song is on the album along with covers of faith no more (song: from out of nowhere), metallica and pantera (song: domination). BUT !!! now they also have 3 songs that aren’t covers… Harmageddon; which is the first song on the album, is a slow starting, weird sounding intro that suddenly sets the right tone with speedy plays and a nice melody. Along with MB (stands for metal boogy) and toreador they really prove that they can make great sounding, fast paced metal songs of their own.
Next in line of albums we have CULT.
This album is something else… they finally have the balls to actually use a lot of distortion and produce a daring album with special effects.
10 songs they made themselves, 2 metallica covers and as the cherry on a pie:
an interpretation of “Hall of the mountain king” by Edvard Krieg.
This song really is worth listening to but I’m not gonna put it in here because it is a bit “special” and doesn’t represent cult well enough.
The special edition (see picture) is the first album that has guest singers on it.
Two to be exact.. The first being Sandra; the female voice of the guano apes. And the second one is Matthias from a band named the farmer boys.
The following song is the one with Sandra in it.. named Path vol.2. Why did I pick this song? Because path vol.1 is a great song and because I want you to hear their music with a voice on it… And I’ll admit: because Magic likes Sandra as a singer...
(you might have to click this one twice, to open it in a new window..)
Still a long way to go before we get to their more recent albums, stay tuned
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This love, this love is going to be the end of me.
Stuck in my head like a mother****er. They performed here less than a week ago. It was a sold out show that I wasn't interested in. If they got rid of the radio hit artist collaborations they would make remarkable progress. Sure it's what Apocalyptica do but the solo work can be beautiful and therefore untainted.
Apocalyptica. 
now that we have some music playing this will be much more interesting:
Maybe now I'll finally do a followup on the next albums.. 
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