Style is not dead gold, but folk songs.

Members of the orchestra:

Max Lilia

Paavo Lochonin

Eka Toppinen

Antero Manninen

Revelation is definitely a very special group. 1993, four cellists who graduated from sibelius College in Finland formed this group on a whim and began to adapt and cover some classic works for Metallica, the leading band of thrash metal Band.

1At the end of 995, Revelation was invited to perform at Teatro, a heavy metal club in Helsinki. This is the first time that Revelation has officially performed Metallica's works, including Puppet Master and Crawling Death. The performance of Revelation not only caused a sensation, but also immediately attracted the attention of Finnish local brand Zen Garden Records, and soon brought a record contract for Revelation!

1996, Apocalypse released its first album, and four cellos played Metal Band, just as the title of the album. This album only "played" eight classic songs from the metal band album "Braving the Wind and Waves", "Puppet Master", ... and four cello metal bands. Unexpectedly, this album has achieved excellent sales results, with global sales reaching 350,000 copies!

From 1996 to 1998, Revelation toured all over Europe and even participated in many metal festivals.

1998, Revelation released its second album "Symphony of Inquiry" in public view. This time, the orchestra can be said to have extended its tentacles further. In the track of 1 1, apart from four works from Metallica, Sepultura, Faith No More and Pantera are also covered. In the end, the Inquiry Symphony also created more than 250,000 copies of sales!

Unexpectedly, it was just for fun, but now it makes Revelation famous. I believe this is something that these cellists didn't expect!

As a matter of fact, I heard that Four Cello played the album of Metal Band several years ago, but I have never heard of it. In May, 20001,I accidentally saw three albums of Revelation (the third one was Cult in 2000) in the Eslite Music Hall of National Taiwan University, and finally I bought one or two because I couldn't help being curious. Playing the cello is really awesome! According to the members, because the classical cello training in the past did not provide them with enough ability to cope with the fast metal music, and the so-called great violin skills were still in the exploration stage, they had to give up some faster music when making this album "Four Cello Performances Metallica".

To tell the truth, for metal fans, this album is probably more interesting than listening. When Metallica fans hear these familiar songs in the form of cello notes, I believe they will all show wise smiles! In particular, using cello to simulate the whipping of electric guitar and the heavy rhythm of drums really makes people applaud! However, it is amazing that only four cellos are used to reinterpret Metallica's original strong metal music. Listening to the whole album will inevitably make people feel a little monotonous and empty, and for fans who have never heard Metallica original music, I am afraid they will not feel the pleasure of listening to the album. In any case, there is no doubt that this work brings surprises to the world! It turns out that people in the world still play music like this! But I'm really worried about whether those famous pianos with a little history will be damaged by them. I wonder how their professors will feel when they see these famous pianos being played like this!

After two years' pondering, the four musicians of Revelation have obviously mastered the heavy cello performance, and the performance of the second album "Symphony of Inquiry" is more intense and wonderful than the last album! The members chose some high-speed metal tracks without fear, and with special effects, the intensity of cello performance was staggering! You can even imitate some effects of electric guitar with cello, as well as the fast playing of electric guitar and double drums? ! I really laughed when I heard these effects. That's amazing! Admire you!

Generally speaking, this album is richer and more auditory than "Playing Metal Band with Four Cello". In addition to these powerful tracks, several slow-release lyric songs are also extremely moving under the ensemble of cello bleak chords.

In my opinion, after the four cellos' performance of Metal successfully established the popularity of Revelation, Revelation also has more space and confidence to realize the musical ideal different from the classical cello. Recently, many classical musicians began to join the pop music industry and set off a craze, which proves that classical music can be so interesting, not all of them are serious and stuffy! Revelation does create another possibility for classical cello!