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Apocalyptica
Apocalyptica is a Finnish cello metal band, formed in 1993. The bands music features elements from classical music, neo-classical metal, thrash metal, and symphonic metal.

Apocalyptica is composed of classically trained cellists and a drummer. Apocalyptica have played approximately 850-1000 concerts during their career in about 50 countries, while selling over three million albums to date.

Shortly after the band was formed, four cellists, Eicca Toppinen, Paavo L?tj?nen, Max Lilja, and Antero Manninen gathered to play Metallica covers at Sibelius-Academy. Among the audience was Kari Hynninen, who, after listening to Apocalyptica's set, signed them on the spot to Zen Garden Records.

Apocalyptica came up with their debut studio album, Plays Metallica in 1993. The album featured eight instrumental Metallica covers arranged and played on cellos. The cellists released their second studio album, Inquisition Symphony in 1998.

The album was produced by Hiili Hiilesmaa. Following the debut album, Inquisition Symphony too contained covers of Metallica, but also contained covers of Faith No More, Sepultura, and Pantera.

The Cellists also included three original songs written by Eicca Toppinen in this particular album. The next year, Antero Manninen left the group, and was replaced by Perttu Kivilaakso.

It was after the recording of their third studio album Cult that an Apocalyptica track was first seen featuring vocals, Path Vol. 2. Cult was issued in 2000 and featured 10 original songs, and 3 covers. The album also saw a small trend starting in their single releases, as both Hope and Path have second versions called Path Vol. 2 and Hope Vol. 2.

In 2002, Max Lilja left the group, leaving Apocalyptica with only three members. The following year, Apocalyptica came up with their fourth studio album, Reflections. The album consisted for the first time of all original songs, while featuring a more experimental sound, instead of the previous acoustic style arrangements.

In 2005, the group released their fifth studio self-titled album, Apocalyptica. Amplified / A Decade of Reinventing the Cello was a greatest hit from Apocalyptica containing two new songs: Repressed and Slayer's Angel of Death that was released on May 30th 2006.

The album, Apocalyptica, featured a number of guest musicians. Some of the most notables were Ville Valo of HIM, Lauri Yl?nen of The Rasmus, and once again Dave Lombardo.

The cello metal band also recorded the Intro for Bullet For My Valentine's album The Poison. Later that year, Mikko Sir?n was announced as an official band member after having played around 200 shows with the band.

In September 2007, Apocalyptica released their sixth studio album, entitled Worlds Collide. The album was produced by Jacob Hellner and to the surprise of many; it includes a cover of the German version of David Bowie's song Heroes.

The band concluded the year 2007 with their Europe successful tour, selling out many of the venues they played. For the year 2008, Apocalyptica announced a large world tour, so far including concerts in Europe, North America and Mexico.

In the mid of 2008, during the Rock in Rio concert in Lisbon, Apocalyptica joined the Greenpeace energy [r]evolution campaign. They also played the Beethoven 5th symphony from the stage.