Band: Apocalyptica
CD Title: Worlds Collide
Year: 2007
Website: www.apocalyptica.com
MySpace: myspace.com/apocalyptica
Label: 20-20 Entertainment
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Rating: 9 / 10
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Where can I start? The beginning, sounds useful. Well, Worlds Collide is Apocalyptica's most recent showing of their classical-influenced metal. Like their other recent albums, this has a mixture of instrumentals, and those with guest vocalists. The popularity of Apoclyptica shows this time around by looking at the guest vocalists, some are just mind blowing. With legends like Corey Taylor (Slipknot/Stone Sour), Cristina Scabbia (Lacuna Coil) and Till Lindermann (Rammstein) at the forefront, its not suprising that Apocalyptica are so popular.
Like everything else they have done, Worlds Collide is musically amazing, you will find very few bands out there that play the cello like this, let alone this well. The openeing song, Worlds Collide, sets the tone for the album, soft, low build ups to the fast and hard sections. The music is emotional, you can feel what the music wants you to feel. Peace feels like it is about peace, its soft, slow, but also has the sense that there is still trouble, its not entirely slow and like wishful thinking. Plus on Last Hope, guest drummer Dave Lombardo from Slayer does an immense job, and works so well with the rest of the music.
The vocal tracks don't disappoint either. Most people would have heard the first single from the album, I'm Not Jesus, with Corey Taylor. And he makes this song work. But, he isn't the only reason that this song is amazing on its own. When I saw them live, Apocalyptica played this, and without Corey, it was intrumental, with the same method of replacing his voice as they did with their Metallica covers. Till Lindermann's voice is perfectly suited to Helden, Apocalyptica's first all-German track. I Don't Care really speaks to me, with Adam Gontier from Three Days Grace, its easily one of the strongest on the album.
But I think that the song that really shines is their newest single, S.O.S. (Anything But Love), featuring the ever enthralling Cristina Scabbia, the song is, from what I can gather, about an abusive, obsessive and general nasty husband, and literally, he can give her (Cristina in the song), anything he can, except love. It's definatley one of the most emotional tracks I've heard.
Overall, this album is one of the best I've ever heard. There's nothing missing from it, it gives you exactly what you expected, it delivers 50 minutes of pure emotional and still original music.