They don’t
need any advertising, but their shows are mostly sold out! Like recently
at Leipzig, one station of a successful world tour.
The support band “Angelzoom” was welcomed wildly by the audience;
obviously I was the only one who didn’t know them. And I can’t say that
they’ve convinced me with their sound of keyboards, violin, cello and
classical female vocals. It was too much synthesizers for my taste, and
all of their songs were too similar in my opinion.
Apocalyptica were welcomed even more wildly as they entered stage. Four
celli and drums, it doesn’t need much to make a great show!
There was nothing else on stage besides four huge chairs and a drum kit.
The backs of the chairs were shaped like caskets with cut out skulls,
what looked great with the fantastic light show.
They started their show seated, but the later the evening got, the
livelier they became! It started with banging their heads and ended up
with them running across the stage, always the cello in one hand! Only
Antero stayed seated the whole show, always serious faced with
sunglasses wearing a dark suit.
Eicca and Perrtu did all the talking while Paavo did the entertaining!
Drummer Mikko did an outstanding job, without any problems he handled
the drum part of “Betrayel / Forgiveness”, originally played by Slayer’s
Dave Lombardo.
Basically they played songs of their latest albums “Reflection” and
“Apocalyptica” like “Farewell”, “Toreador II”, “Somewhere around
nothing” or “Quutamo”, “Life Burns!” and “Bittersweet” from their latest
release, played just instrumental, were as good as the album versions
with vocals.
There is no Apocalyptica show without at least a few of their cover
versions, the ones like “Nothing else matters” or “Refuse / Resist” were
definitively the high peak of their show!
They treated their cello that you wonder how the instrument could
survive the show at all! They played on the neck, below the bridge, they
waved the celli in the air and sometimes I thought they would smash it
in the next moment! They climbed on their chairs and at the drum
platform, and Eicca joined Mikko at the drums. The audience went crazy!
Yeah they were having a great time; we all had a great time!
The regular part ended with a drum solo, the encores started with a drum
solo followed by Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”. As final song they
celebrated Edward Grieg’s “Hall Of The Mountain King”!
They left stage, but the lights didn’t fade out, they came back on stage
without cello for another moment. “Bittersweet” was aired and the
musicians jumped off stage and were suddenly gone …
What a great night! A great show, moderate prices for drinks and food,
even the merchandise was affordable! Only the security took their job a
bit too serious! |
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