APOCALYPTICA's Connection With METALLICA Is 'Super Great'

Austria’s Mulatschag recently conducted an interview with Paavo Lötjönen and Perttu Kivilaakso of Finnish cello rockers APOCALYPTICA. You can now watch the chat below.

Speaking about joining METALLICA on stage at the Fillmore in San Francisco as part of the week-long celebration of the band’s 30th anniversary in December 2011, Perttu said: “Of course we felt very privileged being included amongst all those amazing artists. And after the thing, what we have done during our career, it has been pleasant to realize and notice that, actually, the METALLICA guys, who are the reason for us to start to do something like this, that they do respect us at least that much that they wanted us to be a part of this big celebration of their career. Of course, it was crazy. I remember that when we started to play ‘One’, I’m starting this song and James Hetfield is just next to me, and I’m thinking, when I was 13 years old, he was my biggest idol and now we are playing together. So it’s absurd, but just natural and logical in other terms.”

Added Paavo: “You know, the connection to METALLICA has been really super great all these years. We played first time as a support to them already in ’96. It was actually our fifth show for a proper rock and roll audience, and we were supporting METALLICA, so it was quite crazy. And since that, we have played many times with them at same festivals and… Let me say that the connection with METALLICA is really cool and really nice.”

Continued Perttu: “We just were [on tour] this spring [in the U.S.] and Lars [Ulrich, METALLICA drummer] came to watch our show in San Francisco. And yeah, usually we try to hang out whenever it’s possible.”

APOCALYPTICA‘s new album, “Shadowmaker”, was released on April 21 via Eleven Seven Music Group‘s Better Noise imprint. The Finnish musicians — accompanied by their American lead singer Franky Perez — recorded the CD with Grammy Award-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz (FOO FIGHTERS, DEFTONES, MASTODON).

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net