Welcome to My Music Mondays. Each week I will be delving into my music collection and looking at a new artist going from A to Z. I’ll examine why I first started listening to them, my favorite album and my top 10 songs for the artist. As my music collection is pretty extensive and I have a lot of one offs, I have set a qualification to be featured here. That is that I have to have at least two albums of the artist’s music before they can be considered. This week I look at Apocalyptica.

Note: My last entry in this feature, at that time called My Music: A to Z, was back in September when I looked at my favorite band Guns N’ Roses. Since then I have gotten some additional music that qualifies for the feature and they are going to kick off the first couple of weeks, thus Apocalyptica this week.

I like classical music. I like Metallica. Apocalyptica started as a cello quartet that played classical covers of Metallica songs hence I like Apocalyptica. Over the last decade Apocalyptica has evolved from a talented group of cello players with a Metallica fetish to a full fledged rock act, complete with guest vocalists and a percussion section. If you’ve never had the pleasure of hearing their music, do yourself a favor and give them a listen, at the very least you should be impressed even if you don’t like the music.

Favorite Album: Inquisition Symphony.

While their album “Plays Metallica by Four Cellos” is awesome, Inquisition Symphony expands on their work there and the band really starts to come into their own, even if the best songs on it are still Metallica covers.

10 Favorite Songs

10. Hall of the Mountain King
9. I Don’t Care (feat. Adam Gontier)
8. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
7. S.O.S. (Anything But Love) (feat. Christina Scabia)
6. The Unforgiven
5. Nothing Else Matters
4. I’m Not Jesus (feat. Corey Taylor)
3. One
2. Fade to Black
1. Farewell

So what do you think of Apocalyptica?