APOCALYPTICA is scheduled to enter the studio in the winter, to begin recording its new album for a spring 2010 release. Cellist and composer Eicca Toppinen revealed it in an inteview with Finlands 'HardcoreSounds.net': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWqIyp2ztYkThe interview is helt before the band's performance at the Rockperry Festival, which was held 17 and 18 July in Vaasa, Finland. The band scored its first No. 1 rock radio hit in November with "I Don't Care", the latest single from the band's sixth studio album, "Worlds Collide". The disc has sold around a quarter million copies in the U.S. and marks the group's first significant success in this country in their 15-year career.
Other cellist Paavo Lotjonen told 'The Pulse of Radio' that their newfound recognition has been worth all the effort. "It's been really amazing, all the success we have got," he said. "Of course it has taken a lot of work and we have given our heart to this. But I feel that it's been worth that and we have reached something new."
"I Don't Care" features guest vocals from Three Days Grace frontman Adam Gontier. Alos Slipknot's Corey Taylor contributed vocals to the CD's first single, "I'm Not Jesus".
The band will perform on the upcoming Mera Luna festival, Wildesheim - Germany this weekend. Together with Nightwish. Also they will end the tour together in Helsinki in September.
Source: blabbermouth, apcocalyptica
