Perttu Päivö Kullervo Kivilaakso (born 11 May 1978 in Helsinki, Finland) is a cello player for Finnish band
Apocalyptica. Like fellow band members
Eicca Toppinen and
Paavo Lötjönen, he attended
Sibelius Academy in
Helsinki. He plays a German 19th century cello; he started playing the cello when he was 5 years old and joined
Apocalyptica for their third studio album
Cult. Kivilaakso played in Apocalyptica's 1995 line up, but he was concentrating on his studies when the band began their professional career. At the end of 1999 he came back, switching places with
Antero Manninen, who then went to play in a classical orchestra.