![]() Expanded notes for many shows (with press, scene reports, and images) can be found on Twitter by searching for my username (bourgwick) and the show date. Originally posted on Twitter on each show’s 40th/50th anniversary and edited here for readability and occasional revision/correction and minor expansion. This album is an album filled with music that will brighten your day if you like the band you can’t help but feeling good after listening to this.An extended listening project tracking the Grateful Dead’s evolution, recording by recording. Granted, they didn’t reinvent the wheel with this record, but they have redefined Power Metal as we know it with their musical style and they play music they enjoy, and most likely that goes for the fans as well. One might conclude that DragonForce haven’t renewed themselves one bit from their prior releases. This song is one of the highlights on this record along with the last song on the record “The Warrior Inside.”Īll in all this is a good album. “Inside The Winter Storm” picks up the pace again and continues what “Heroes Of Our Time” and “The Fire Still Burns” started. “A Flame For Freedom” is even slower and may be the new ballad-like song to include in their live shows. It’s a slower song (not a ballad though) with lots of catchy vocal lines. “The Last Journey Home” deviates some from the standard DragonForce recipe. Song number four, “Heartbreak Armageddon,” has almost three minutes of guitar and keyboard solos that see them through slow melodic playing and the insanely fast stuff. A fun fact for this album is that keyboard player Dave Mackintosh has used, in addition to keyboards, a Theremin. The third song, “Reason To Live” starts insanely fast with near Death Metal sounding drums, but it soon changes to the DragonForce we know so well. The second track “The Fire Still Burns” picks up where “Heroes Of Our Time” ends, and both songs are filled with great amounts of speed, catchy chorus lines and fast and melodic twin guitar solos with their trademark Nintendo-sounding squeals. For instance, the album opener “Heroes Of Our Time” could easily have been taken from their 2006 release Inhuman Rampage. The album is filled with songs that have the typical DragonForce trademark. It’s easy to use the song “Through The Fire And Flames” as a reference to how their music sounds and those who like that song is going to love their new release Ultra Beatdown. DragonForce is a band you either love or hate, and if you like Power Metal you’re most likely already a fan of theirs. The band’s musical style is characterized by their twin guitar solos, their insanely fast pace (at times close to 200 bpm!) and electronic elements that at times can remind you of the classic Nintendo 8-bit songs. The band is best known for their song “Through The Fire And Flames” that was included in the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock and the band’s music sales increased dramatically due to this. ![]() They started out as Dragonheart in 1999, but changed their name to DragonForce due to possible issues with a Brazilian band with the same name. DragonForce has been around for almost a decade now, and have released four studio albums to this date, their 2008 release Ultra Beatdown being the latest.
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