CHILDREN OF BODOM and VISIONS OF ATLANTIS have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 4-6, 2011 in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ACCU§ER APOCALYPTICA AVANTASIA ...

APOCALYPTICA and HIM are among the nominees in the "Metal Album Of The Year" category at next year's Emma Gaala (Finnish Grammy equivalent), which will be held on February 26, 2011 at Barona Areena in Espoo, Finland. The awards ceremony will be televised on Finnish TV channel YLE TV2 on February 26 at 20:10-21:50 and 2...

APOCALYPTICA's Eicca Toppinen is featured in a new interview with Ultimate-Guitar.com. An excerpt is available below. Q: In another interview, you explained how you composed the vocal tracks for 7th Symphony with vocals in mind, and that the instrumentals were originally composed as instrumentals. You described that as "a big d...

PitCam Production has uploaded more video footage of the Finnish rock cello quartet APOCALYPTICA performing acoustically on October 24, 2010 at Hard Rock Café in Berlin, Germany. Check out the clips below. APOCALYPTICA's latest album, "7th Symphony", sold around 13,000 copies in the United States in its firs...

PitCam Production has uploaded video footage of the Finnish rock cello quartet APOCALYPTICAperforming an acoustic version of the song "End Of Me" on October 24, 2010 at Hard Rock Café in Berlin, Germany. Check out the clip below. "End Of Me" comes off APOCALYPTICA's latest album, "...