With Dragonforce's hungry, "take over the world" attitude and Roadrunner's push, there's no reason to believe that this band can't make some serious waves. That's right, the label that also made stars of Slipknot, Killswitch Engage, and numerous other metalcore and death metal bands, now adds Dragonforce to their roster (along with Opeth, two major surprise signings for the label). What's really shocking (besides the incredible guitar & keyboard battles) is that all this speed of light extreme power metal now has found a home on Roadrunner Records. Well, who is going to argue with them when they release something as amazing as Inhuman Rampage, a blistering power metal assault that is leagues ahead of what Stratovarius, Edguy, Helloween, Gamma Ray, Blind Guardian, and the rest are doing. Over the course of three albums, Dragonforce are laying claim to being the fastest and most technically adept players around. However, one group is starting to really turn heads (mine included) and that is Dragonforce. With so many bands out there playing the same sort of melodies at the same speeds, there have been very few who are doing anything unique or at least exciting. I'll admit, I haven't been the biggest fan of the power metal genre over the last few years. Posted by Pete Pardo, SoT Staff Writer on 18:50:10 Related Link: Official Dragonforce Web Site If it takes the finer, more experimental moments on Inhuman Rampage and adds a few new dimensions (more-diverse tempos, for example), album number four could crush the rest of its competition. Dragonforce clearly wants to be one of the biggest metal bands in the world. In fact, count him in with Timo Kotipelto and Tobias Sammet as one of the scene's best singers.Įven though some of Inhuman Rampage is just more of the same from this band that still has chops to spare - violent fantasy lyrics and all - it's a refreshing listen if only to hear the hunger. South African-born vocalist ZP Theart is a jewel, never abusing his range or trying to sound like something he's not. Even the album's sole ballad, the piano-based six-minute closer "Trail of Broken Hearts," has three guitar solos. Lean, muscular, oddly catchy and alternately thrashy and progressive, Inhuman Rampage combines the best elements of Rhapsody, Stratovarius and Edguy - but none of those bands are likely to offer a song this year as impossibly speedy as "Storming the Burning Fields." That said, the middle section of that song breaks down to introduce fancy new keyboard-like guitar sounds and highlight the musicians' vocal flexibility. Like its immediate predecessor, this exhausting album features eight songs all longer than five minutes each. Rather than break new musical ground, as Li implies, Dragonforce offers only slight variations on the self-described "extreme power metal" sound of its first two albums, 2003's Valley of the Damned and 2004's Sonic Firestorm. Nevertheless, Inhuman Rampage sends the loud-and-clear message that one of the world's fastest-playing bands has no intentions of slowing down. But it doesn't quite deserve the metal-gods status that Li thinks it does. performance at New York's legendary CBGB's in November "will one day be part of the many historic rock shows which have happened during the venue's lifetime."ĭragonforce is one of the better power-metal bands in the universe today, no question. … I have never heard an album sounding like Inhuman Rampage." He later predicted that Dragonforce's debut U.S. When asked to comment on the British power-metal band's third album, Inhuman Rampage, for promo materials, he responded - and I quote - " We have come up with the ultimate formula that has never been done before. No one can accuse Dragonforce guitarist Herman Li of humbleness.
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