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Apocalyptica: The Life Burns Tour

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I have followed this band since their first major lable release of metallica on four cellos. That was great in and of itself, but inquisition symphony, thier second release just blew that away by leaps and bounds, and had the beginnings of great original work. Now 10 years later, and 500+ shows, many of them sold out, and millions of albums later, this and is still very fresh, and as loud as any of the thrash metal bands out there. This video showcases an amazing display of endurance the way they speed through riffs that were originally played on guitar on a giant cello. Apocalyptica is a showcase of excellence in musicianship, and features what should be featured, the music, and not a lot of words and vocals that can distract from awsome musicianship. The show is around 90 minutes long, and just packed with thier best cuts.

But wiat, there's more. For those of you who just have to have lyrics, there are 8 videos, all of which have words sung by several well known artists from Guano Apes, Soulfly, Bullet for My Valentine, and HIM. There is also the making of repressed, and a us tour mini documentary. This is a must have for any apocalyptica fan, and a taste for us fans into what releases are to come in the future. Here is a Track listing:

[1 ] Intro - Apocalyptica

[2 ] Path

[3 ] Master Of Puppets

[4 ] Somewhere Around Nothing

[5 ] Fight Fire With Fire

[6 ] Quutamo

[7 ] Heat

[8 ] Betrayal

[9 ] Nothing Else Matters

[10 ] Hope

[11 ] Life Burns

[12 ] Fisheye

[13 ] Bittersweet

[14 ] Seek & Destroy

[15 ] Prologue

[16 ] Creeping Death

[17 ] Inquisition Symphony

[18 ] Enter Sandman

[19 ] Refuse /Resist

[20 ] Hall Of The Mountain King

[21 ] US Tourfilm (Bonus Material)

[22 ] EPK - Repressed (Bonus Material)

[23 ] Bittersweet (Video)

[24 ] Life Burns (Video)

[25 ] How Far (Video)

[26 ] Wie Weit (Video)

[27 ] Faraway Vol.2

[28 ] Somewhere Around Nothing

[29 ] Seemann (Video)

[30 ] Repressed (Video)

Enjoy, well worth buying.

For anyone who does not appreciate hard metal music this DVD would be a disaster. However, for those who do, this DVD is absolutely superb. Nothing can be more unusual than to see and hear cellos play hard metal music. It is amazing how good that sounds. The wild movements made by the players only add to the high energy presentation. Every lover of hard metal music should have this DVD or any of the other Apocalyptica DVDs in their possession

Amazing video! Excellent quality! Very nicely shot! The music is more than great and the band plays so well live! I love APOCALYPTICA! Definitely worth the money! This is APOCALYPTICA's best DVD ever!

Musically the band is excellent, but the production of this DVD sucks.

This concert was recorded with at least 100 cameras and a bunch of drunk cameraman, no one stays steady for more that 0.001 of a sec. impossible to watch.

This DVD is more the show of the camera controller than the performance of the band, I had to played it in the background while I was doing something else in order to don't get dizzy.

10 points for the band, and 1 point for the production and camera crew.

...is absolutely amazing; well put together visually and DEFINITELY worth buying, whether you're a die-hard fan or completely new to Apocalyptica.

The camera crew really strive to capture everything that's going on, from the flying fingers, to the audience, and the interaction between the band members. You really get a sense of the intense energy and effort these guys put into their performance.

The performance itself is amazing, as are all of Apocalyptica's shows. From their punishing rendition of 'Inquisition Symphony' to the chilling 'Nothing Else Matters', you won't be able to tear your eyes away.

There's also some bonus material for those who are interested - a short (but nonetheless interesting) 'making of' for their song 'Repressed', and a selection of music videos featuring the various singers (including Lauri Ylönen from The Rasmus and Ville Valo from HIM.)

I have a biased opinion of this DVD because I am such a huge fan. I love it, however if you want a high quality well produced huge arena show, this isn't it. Again I will say though if you are a fan this is a must have.

If you have heard Apocalyptica before, you won't be disappointed in the music. Unfortunately, the video editing is so chaotic, with constant cuts, that you rarely get to actually watch the musicians play their music, which is the reason I bought the video in the first place. It seems the company that made the video wanted to impress us with their fancy editing techniques. Well I'm impressed. But I didn't buy the video to see fancy editing. I bought it so that I could get a close-up look at terrific musicians in action, watch their fingering, see their faces, see which guy is playing which part, and watch their incredible drummer. I do give it one star though, because there is at least one song that is fairly well done that I have watched a couple of times, and that I have shown to friends who were curious about Apocalyptica.

Love this Dvd ! Great set list. Very good quality. I am very pleased with it. It was as good as I expected and hoped for.

I really like the music, but this video is hard to watch because the camera view is moving around constantly..... Whoever edited this video sucks big time. This reivew is for the video only, not the band or the music. 2 stars for the video.

Mmmmhhh... Where should I start? I bought this dvd just to check the band with a drummer. I lost the trace of them a couple years ago.

After watching this dvd, I must say that even though many of the songs sound great with the rhythm of the drums, sometimes I felt like I was watching some kind of "anniversary concert for something" due to the sound of the celloes. Easily, You can use some of the tracks as a background music for a meeting with the family. Did they use some kind of synthesiser for a cello (I don't know if it exists :-)? They sound "softer" than they used to. In addittion to that, the sound of the drums in some of the songs, is unnecessarily higher that the celloes.

Someone said they had wild movements on stage, but on this dvd, this attitude not necessarily match with an agressive sound.

Pros:

The band performance is great! The setlist has their best shots.

Excelent audio and video quality.

Cons:

Too many cameras, but you barely can see the fingering of the boys.