The band played a limited run of dates in the U.S. last year, but stateside and Canadian fans will have a greater opportunity to enjoy the performance when they spend a majority of the month of ...

It's hard to overstate just how massive Metallica was in 1993, both in America and around the world. After methodically building an audience for its brand of thrash-metal — full of time changes and ...

Finnish “metal cello” ensemble Apocalyptica are celebrating their 20-year anniversary with a rare run of U.S. tour dates with the spotlight on material from their debut album … Plays Metallica With ...

The deep, cavernous sounds of the cello are perfect for heavy metal. They can be dark and brooding. They provide a nice, long bass sound that’ s a perfect backup to songs about sadness and destruction ...

The Finns love their classical music. They also dig their heavy metal, too, as many an American metal act has discovered on tour. It makes sense, then, that the world's foremost heavy-metal cello ...

Apocalyptica have landed the ultimate stamp of approval on their cover of Metallica's "One" by getting two of Metallica's band members to guest on the track. Both James Hetfield and Robert Trujillo ...

It was 25 years ago when a bunch of Finnish orchestra players bonded over their love of Metallica and created a neoclassical metal rock band without the use of conventional guitars, opting instead to ...

In the lore of heavy metal only a handful of artists can claim to have changed history, and even fewer can say they’ve done so twice. Enter Apocalyptica and one of metal’s greatest, most unlikely ...

Finnish metal band Apocalyptica has sold 4 million copies of its seven albums, including two that, in the past four years, hit the Top 10 on Billboard’s Independent Albums chart. It had a No. 1 ...

This weekend in the Valley, you can watch Apocalyptica play heavy metal hits on cellos, attend a free outdoor show by post-hardcore band Escape the Fate, or get an early start to your 4/20 festivities ...