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| 1. At the Gates of Manala [0:07:03.35] 2. End of Me (feat. Gavin Rossdale) [0:03:28.44] 3. Not Strong Enough (feat. Brent Smith) [0:03:36.39] 4. 2010 (feat. Dave Lombardo) [0:04:30.60] 5. Through Paris in a Sportscar [0:03:52.23] 6. Beautiful [0:02:18.59] 7. Broken Pieces (feat. Lacey) [0:03:54.37] 8. On the Rooftop with Quasimodo [0:04:59.36] 9. Bring them to Light (feat. Joseph Duplantier) [0:04:44.47] 10. Sacra [0:04:22.33] 11. Rage of Poseidon [0:08:41.26] 12. the Shadow of Venus [0:06:05.74] |
Review: by Phil Freeman
Apocalyptica was a cool concept to begin with; four classical cellists playing arrangements of Metallica songs. But that was their first EP, and that was a long time ago. Now they play instrumental hard rock and bring in guest vocalists, and the returns have diminished quite a bit. "End of Me" features former Bush vocalist Gavin Rossdale, and based on the song's crunching Active Rock radio-friendly riff and the rhythmic verses, he's only there because Disturbed frontman David Draiman couldn't or wouldn't do it. Brent Smith of Shinedown shows up for a power ballad, "Not Strong Enough," that sounds like a performance from a televised country music awards show. When the cellos are fed through pedals, the sound can be quite impressive, like a guitar but five times more room-filling and powerful. And the members of Apocalyptica do use many different effects on their instruments, occasionally creating sounds not unlike those you might hear on a Sunn O))) album. The best track on 7th Symphony is "2010," which features a guest performance by Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo, who drives the music ferociously, a speeding train straight into hell. But too often, using cellos to play metal riffs (as on "Bring Them to Light," which features vocalist Joseph Duplantier of French avant-metallers Gojira) just winds up making the album sound like "A String Tribute To [Insert Metal Band Here]," and not in the cool, rethinking-the-material way that first Apocalyptica release did.
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