APOCALYPTICA

Release Year: 2016
Artist Origin: FIN
Style: classic melodic neosymphonic heavy metal

the genre-splicing Finnish instrumental band stops tossing with the covers of other bands and composers, and go plain their own material on fifth, self-titled full-length [2005], also introducing vocals on some of the songs - Ville Valo from HIM is one of those guest vocalists, while Dave Lombardo performs drum parts on the Betrayal/Forgiveness; still, most of the tracks are instrumental and confirm their exceptional skills to arrange heavy metal with classical means and decent composition, where among balladesque type of music one can catch some faster thrashy moments either; first time ever - gatefold sleeve double black 180g vinyl edition with pro-printed lyric inner sleeves and CD version of the album in addition