In comes the new vocalist Marc Hudson and a new album that shows a revitalised Dragonforce continuing their trademark high velocity power metal virtuosity. It is now some four years since the bands last album “Ultra Beatdown” in 2008 and their last with vocalist ZP Theart, who has gone onto front a new act called I Am I. Critically it is fair to say their tunes have been overly long even on CD, which makes them overstay their welcome when played live admittedly. OK the band has that glam feminine touch on stage but when it comes down to it Dragonforce write tunes that nobody else could even attempt such is the speed and intricacy of the songs. True enough the guys in the band are a bunch of posing wankers but so what, they don’t do anything different posing wise to that of old outfits like Priest, Maiden, Scorpions, Whitesnake. Having now seen the band countless times over the years I do find that Dragonforce is vilified by UK metal fans and even power metal fans for some reason. Arguably Dragonforce, called Dragonheart originally when I saw them prior to their huge current popularity supporting Stratovarius, pioneered the UK’s power metal surge into a scene that was and probably still is European dominated.
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