History Music / Apocalyptica

* Gavin Rossdale (Bush) on "End of Me"

* {{Instrumentals}}: Apocalyptica does mostly instrumentals, including the entirety of their first four albums (excluding bonus content) and ''Cell-0''. They don't have a vocalist in their lineup and all of their songs with lyrics are sung by guest vocalists.

* SopranoAndGravel: The sung version of "Bittersweet" [[PlayingWithTropes plays with the trope]] by way of guest vocalists Ville Valo from H.I.M. and Lauri Ylönen from Music/TheRasmus): both are male, and Lauri's higher tenor voice is actually the graveled one in comparison to Ville's velvet-smooth bass. It makes an interesting effect when Ville suddenly slides up into the same range as Lauri.

* ''Shadowmaker'' (2015)

Studio Discography:

* Corey Taylor (Music/{{Slipknot}}, Stone Sour) on "I'm Not Jesus"

Lombardo is not the only member of another band they have worked with; the band has collaborated with several vocalists, most notably Music/{{Rammstein}}'s Till Lindemann, Music/{{HIM}}'s Ville Valo, Music/TheRasmus's Lauri Ylönen, Music/{{Slipknot}}[=/=]Music/StoneSour's Corey Taylor, Music/LacunaCoil's Cristina Scabbia, [[Music/GojiraBand Gojira's]] Joe Dupalantier, Music/{{Sepultura}}[=/=]Music/{{Soulfly}}'s Max Cavalera, Music/DirEnGrey's Tooru "Kyo" Nishimura and German punk icon Music/NinaHagen . They were also featured on melodic death metal band Music/AmonAmarth's album ''Twilight of the Thunder God'', for the song "Live for the Kill", and they have played sets with Rammstein. Kivilaakso also appeared on four tracks from Music/SonataArctica's album ''The Days Of Grays''.

Lombardo is not the only member of another band they have worked with; the band has collaborated with several vocalists, most notably Music/{{Rammstein}}'s Till Lindemann, HIM's Ville Valo, Music/TheRasmus's Lauri Ylönen, Music/StoneSour[=/=]Music/{{Slipknot}}'s Corey Taylor, [[Music/GojiraBand Joe Dupalantier]] and [[Music/DirEnGrey Tooru "Kyo" Nishimura]]. They were also featured on melodic death metal band Music/AmonAmarth's album ''Twilight of the Thunder God'', for the song "Live for the Kill", and they have played sets with Rammstein. Kivilaakso also appeared on four tracks from Music/SonataArctica's album ''The Days Of Grays''.

Lombardo is not the only member of another band they have worked with; the band has collaborated with several vocalists, most notably Music/{{Rammstein}}'s Till Lindemann, HIM's Ville Valo, Music/TheRasmus's Lauri Ylönen, Music/StoneSour[=/]Music/{{Slipknot}}'s Corey Taylor, [[Music/GojiraBand Joe Dupalantier]] and [[Music/DirEnGrey Tooru "Kyo" Nishimura]]. They were also featured on melodic death metal band Music/AmonAmarth's album ''Twilight of the Thunder God'', for the song "Live for the Kill", and they have played sets with Rammstein. Kivilaakso also appeared on four tracks from Music/SonataArctica's album ''The Days Of Grays''.

Lombardo is not the only member of another band they have worked with; the band has collaborated with several vocalists, most notably Music/{{Rammstein}}'s Till Lindemann, HIM's Ville Valo, Music/TheRasmus's Lauri Ylönen, MusicStoneSour[=/]Music/{{Slipknot}}'s Corey Taylor, [[Music/GojiraBand Joe Dupalantier]] and [[Music/DirEnGrey Tooru "Kyo" Nishimura]]. They were also featured on melodic death metal band Music/AmonAmarth's album ''Twilight of the Thunder God'', for the song "Live for the Kill", and they have played sets with Rammstein. Kivilaakso also appeared on four tracks from Music/SonataArctica's album ''The Days Of Grays''.

Lombardo is not the only member of another band they have worked with; the band has collaborated with several vocalists, most notably Music/{{Rammstein}}'s Till Lindemann, HIM's Ville Valo, Music/TheRasmus's Lauri Ylönen, Stone Sour/Slipknot's Corey Taylor, [[Music/GojiraBand Joe Dupalantier]] and [[Music/DirEnGrey Tooru "Kyo" Nishimura]]. They were also featured on melodic death metal band Music/AmonAmarth's album ''Twilight of the Thunder God'', for the song "Live for the Kill", and they have played sets with Rammstein. Kivilaakso also appeared on four tracks from Music/SonataArctica's album ''The Days Of Grays''.

* Joe Duplantier (Music/{{Gojira}}) on "Bring Them to Light"

Lombardo is not the only member of another band they have worked with; the band has collaborated with several vocalists, most notably Music/{{Rammstein}}'s Till Lindemann, HIM's Ville Valo, Music/TheRasmus's Lauri Ylönen, Stone Sour/Slipknot's Corey Taylor, [[Music/{{Gojira}} Joe Dupalantier]] and [[Music/DirEnGrey Tooru "Kyo" Nishimura]]. They were also featured on melodic death metal band Music/AmonAmarth's album ''Twilight of the Thunder God'', for the song "Live for the Kill", and they have played sets with Rammstein. Kivilaakso also appeared on four tracks from Music/SonataArctica's album ''The Days Of Grays''.

* {{Instrumentals}}: Apocalyptica does almost entirely instrumentals. They don't have a vocalist in their lineup and all of their songs with lyrics are sung by guest vocalists.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: The band is a Sibelius-Academy-trained cello-metal ensemble, who began as a Music/{{Metallica}} tribute band.

For their first three albums (their second being a tribute album to other heavy metal bands such as Music/{{Pantera}}, the third an album of original songs,) their line-up consisted of four cellists. They then played at a festival of which Music/{{Slayer}} was headlining. Dave Lombardo, a fan of the string quartet, asked them if they knew any Slayer and, upon finding that they do know how to play Slayer, asked them to join him for a short set, telling them to give him a call if they ever needed a drummer. When one of the members quit in 2002, they called up Lombardo for their fourth album, ''Reflections,'' though he did not remain as their main drummer, he contributed to their next two albums before officially leaving in 2007.

Lombardo is not the only member of another band they have worked with and have collaborated with various vocalists, most notably Music/{{Rammstein}}'s Till Lindemann, HIM's Ville Valo, Music/TheRasmus's Lauri Ylönen, Stone Sour/Slipknot's Corey Taylor, [[Music/{{Gojira}} Joe Dupalantier]] and [[Music/DirEnGrey Tooru "Kyo" Nishimura]]. They were also featured on melodic death metal band Music/AmonAmarth's album ''Twilight of the Thunder God'' for the song "Live for the Kill" and have played sets with Rammstein and Kivilaakso appeared on four tracks from Music/SonataArctica's album ''The Days Of Grays''.

For their eight studio album, ''Shadowmaker'', they brought in Franky Perez to be their sole vocalist, breaking their trend of being an instrumental band with only guests for a few songs.

* Emmanuelle Monet (Dolly) on "En Vie"

* Marta Jandova (Die Happy) on "Wie Weit"

* Matthias Sayer (Farmer Boys) on "Hope Vol. 2"

* Brent Smith (Shinedown) on "Not Strong Enough"
* Doug Robb (Hoobastank) on the alternate, American single version of "Not Strong Enough"

I don't care\\

* CoverVersion: After Music/{{Metallica}}, the band went on to covering song from Music/FaithNoMore, Music/{{Sepultura}}, Music/{{Pantera}}, Music/{{Slayer}}, Music/DavidBowie and Music/BlackSabbath.

* LastNoteNightmare: "Fisheye" from their self titled album ends like this. When you think the song is over, a few more measures of thrashy and cacophonic cello and drum noise ensue.

-->I thought you were a good man\\
I thought you talked to God\\
You hypocratic, messianic, child-abusing turned satanic!\\

Do you remember me?\\
The kid I used to be?
* ReligionRantSong: "I'm Not Jesus" is a Type 3. See above for more information.

* {{Instrumentals}}: Apocalyptica does almost entirely instrumentals. It helps that they don't actually have a vocalist in their lineup and all of their songs with lyrics are sung by guest vocalists.

* MrFanservice:The band actively plays to this trope, most often playing on stage shirtless just to please the fangirls. This was particularly evident with Eicca in the early days, though he's put his shirt back on and Perttu Kivilaakso has taken the role.

* Tooru " (Music/{{Kyo}}" Nishimura (Music/DirEnGrey) as tour vocalist in 2010