Apocalyptica's Reflections

[Ermz]

Thoughts?

Great album... I've really been missing out on this symphonic rock stuff, and it's great to have something to relax to after blasting Bodom all night if you know what I mean.

 

[Iron-Flames]

I love it.

 

[Protected Witness]

Metallica sucks.

 

[urza]

i love apocalyptica!
i've got every album and i've listened to them for about 4 years. apocalpytica is so much different....its an awesom band

 

[ouagadougou]

yes! i love Apocalyptica! one of my fav bands they are. beautiful music

 

[Cows on million man march]

they are grea, the classical/metal blend is called for.

 

[Iron-Flames]

I've heard mentions of Metallica...does Metallica have relations to them? ?

 

[Episode 666]

Apocalyptica has released an album with only Metallica covers, played on 3 or 4 violins or cellos (Can't remember), but now they releassed an album with only their own material.

 

[DaMenace123]

The Metallica covers album was 4 cellos. I read that all of them were fans of metal all their lives, but they played cellos, so they compromised and wrote the awesome metal of theirs.

By the way, I really like them too.

 

[KielbasaSausage]

the first Apocalyptica album was called "Plays Metallica By Four Cellos" and that one was all metallica covers.
2nd one was "Inquisition Symphony" which had covers from metallica, sepultura, pantera, faith no more, and some original songs.
3rd album was "Cult" and that was their first completely original album, except for 2 covers of metallica and "In the Hall of the Mountain King" of course by Edvard Greig.
4th was Reflections and i dont think there are any covers in that one.

 

[changso]

Great band, great album...nothing more to add.

 

[Iron-Flames]

So in otherwords they have nothing to do with Metallica except they covered their songs?

Then what was the purpose of saying Metallica sucks? Asshole

 

[Ermz]

Hey Iron-Flames, do you still have that CoB bootleg up for grabs? I've been on a real CoB frenzy lately and would love to get my hands on it. But last time we tried the speed was real slow and it said that your server didn't support me resuming the download

 

[Iron-Flames]

No I deleted it because it took up to much space. I can use Active connection on DC++ now though

 

[Ermz]

 

[Iron-Flames]

Hold on, I'll get it back

 

[Iron-Flames]

I'll have it in about 3 hours then we can do the transfer through DC++ so its resumeable. Alright ?

 

[Ermz]

Sounds great man, thanks... I'll be sure to stay on.

 

[Sengir*Buendia]

Reflections stunned me at the first 5 or so listens. After that, I recognized 2 very distinct groups of songs. The ones with real drums (by Dave Lombardo) and the ones with fake drums. And that last group just makes me vomit now, it sounds like MIDI files!!!!!!!!!! I don't listen to the album for months, it's terrible!!! The real drums tracks are indeed cool, but their shine don't last much...

Besides, being a huge fan of classic music, I consider this band an offense to the magical sound of the cello. In Reflections, the cello is repetitive, shallow, not virtuous at all, even uncomfortable to the ears. A BIG shame to such a powerful instrument.
Huge advice to those interested in CELLO: go listen to the Bach's suites for cello, the Beethoven and Rachmaninoff cello sonatas and Dvorak's cello concerto, just to start.
Enough said. Who wants to buy a used Reflections?

 

[Ermz]

It's virtually metal music at it's heart, most listeners don't go very anal when they listen to classical passages.