ArtistDirect's Amy Sciarretto recently caught up with APOCALYPTICA cellist Perttu Kivilaakso. An excerpt from the Q&A; session is available below.

Q: What was your approach with (new album) 7th Symphony? How do you keep yourself and fans excited about what you are doing combining classical music with hard rock. That's not to suggest it's a novelty, but there are so many places you have already gone, so how do you find the places you can go?

Perttu: "We always want to make an album that would not get boring after a couple of songs. Therefore, we want to have the feeling of a bigger picture and you follow a musical path that doesn't let you go after it ends. We have a symphonic feeling when we are doing this. We wanted to capture the same young energy that we had ten years ago when we did our third album and that revolutionary attitude of making music, but with a 2010 sound, since we have been learning all these years and all the tours we do, too. We always need to break our own rules and borders and find new ways of using the cello and I think that 7th Symphony is a good combination of everything we have done and it is a strong album but a really fresh approach. I think it is the studio album that finally has the energy of our live performance."

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Apocalyptica's new album, 7th Symphony, landed at #31 on the Billboard 200 in the US with about 13,000 copies sold in it's first week of release. In Canada, 7th Symphony lands at #19 on the album charts.

7th Symphony tracklisting:

'At The Gates Of Manala'

'End Of Me'

'Not Strong Enough'

'2010'

'Beautiful'

'Broken Pieces'

'On The Rooftop With Quasimodo'

'Bring Them To Light'

'Sacra'

'Rage Of Poseidon'

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