In a recent interview with Nikos Katapidis from Rocking.gr, APOCALYPTICA's Petru Kivilaasko has revealed that Dave Lombardo (PHILM, ex-SLAYER) is the main reason why the band uses drums today.

Rocking.gr: Now that Dave Lombardo is no longer in Slayer, would you do a show with two drummers? Have you ever thought about that?

Kivilaasko: "Actually, it already happened! In 7th Symphony there's this track called '2010' which is really a dual with two drummers, our own Mikko and Dave, and they performed it at the studio at the same time, it was very exciting. Dave has been in our four last albums, and it kind of feels that he belongs here, whenever we have something new we have to have Dave around, because actually he is mainly the reason why we have drums nowadays. He approached us back in the days, when we were only cellists, and he said that if we ever liked to play with a drummer, he would be more than pleased to offer his drumming in our band. And for the "Reflections" album, he played most of the songs, and after we realized that it is so freaking cool to have Mr. Dave Lombardo play with us, we wanted to offer that kind of sound to our live performances, and that is why we then found Mikko to fulfill that place. And of course Mikko has been amazing in that place ever since, he's an incredible drummer, and we always have had Dave play one or two songs in the albums, but the last time we felt that the coolest thing to do is to put our own drummer and Dave to perform in the same song, at the same time, and it's really like a mayhem! (laughs)"

Read the whole interview here.