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Pioneers of Hunnu Rock The HU and platinum-selling Finnish cello-metal band Apocalyptica have scheduled a co-headlining North American tour that will run through May and June 2026, as per MetalInjection. As special guests, The Rasmus will be joining. The tour begins on May 12 at Silver Spring, Maryland’s The Fillmore and ends on June 7 at Anaheim, California’s House of Blues. Purchase your tickets right here.
In the lore of heavy metal only a handful of artists can claim to have changed history, and even fewer can say they’ve done so twice. Enter Apocalyptica and one of metal’s greatest, most unlikely success stories. By any account it’s the stuff of legend, and it’s about to come full circle.
Cast your mind back thirty years. The giants of the 70s and 80s still ruled the scene, but a generation of up-and-coming artists were pushing hard on the boundaries of heavy music, and then Apocalyptica came along and smashed them down with cello case.
Formed in 1993 at the world-renowned Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, Apocalyptica began life as a loving, lo-fi nod to Metallica from four classically-trained musicians with no greater ambition than to explore their favourite band’s music with their chosen instrument. As founding band leader Eicca Toppinnen explains, the project would take on a life of its own when they finally released “Plays Metallica By Four Cellos” in 1996. More than a debut, it was a monster in waiting.
