Posted by Zenae Zukowski on October 18, 2019
Dragonforce’s new album Extreme Power Metal was released on September 27th via Metal Blade Records (order here). We caught up with guitarist Herman Li to discuss their latest effort, video games, surprises, VR, the 80s, and more. Can you discuss the process of Extreme Power Metal? Apart from the usual making and recording the […]
Posted by Chris Annunziata on October 8, 2019
YouTuber Steve T was offered to tour with DragonForce on their upcoming trek but in a recent statement, the bassist had to bow out due to severe anxiety. In a new video, the YouTuber talked about the relationship he had with DragonForce and how we was initially excited for this opportunity. “As some of you may […]
Posted by Chris Annunziata on July 30, 2019
Dragonforce have announced that their new album will be called Extreme Power Metal and will be released September 27th via Metal Blade Records. Damien Rainaud produced the record at Mix Unlimited in California. Guitarist Herman Li commented on the release: “This album again combines the best of Dragonforce in an even bigger, more epic way than we […]
Posted by Elise Yablon on April 5, 2019
During a recent Twitch livestream, Dragonforce guitarist Herman Li almost leaked a new song. In an effort to mute someone, he accidentally played about 15 seconds of an instrumental piece before realizing what he had done. The snippet most likely comes from the band’s upcoming, as-yet-untitled eighth studio album. Back in October 2018, the band […]
Posted by Cheska Colombo on April 20, 2015
A bunch of metalheads fully clothed in a pool watching Herman Li of Dragonforce play the band’s signature solo underwater sounds like an extremely weird dream. For the attendees of this year’s Full Metal Cruise, however, it became a reality this past week. During one of the band’s performances on the ship, Dragonforce decided to […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on January 7, 2015
Or is that Babydragon? Either way, the girls of Babymetal got together with guitarists Herman Li and Sam Totman of DragonForce to write a song called “Road of Resistance.” We detailed that last year, but now the song is available for streaming via a trailer. Granted, it’s a very long trailer that features the majority […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on December 18, 2014
[youtube]http://youtu.be/2WlLDNFIHO4[/youtube] When looking back at the year in metal, 2014 will be known as the year Babymetal came to America. The combination of J-pop and metal may turn out to be a short-lived gimmick here, but the Su-Metal, Yuimetal and Moametal and their backing band have sold a solid amount of albums in the states […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on August 6, 2014
Dragonforce’s happy, goofy hyperspeed power metal has been thrilling audiences worldwide since their 2005 album Inhuman Rampage took off in America in 2006. While you might not expect the band to have any skeletons in their closet, there actually are some homophobic and racist skeletons in it. Demoniac, a pre-Dragonforce band that ‘Force guitarists Sam Totman […]
Posted by Zach Fehl on July 24, 2014
DragonForce is a power metal band based out of London, England. They will be releasing their sixth album, Maximum Overload this August 18th (EU) and 19th (US) via Metal Blade Records (US) and earMUSIC (EU). This is the second album to feature new vocalist Marc Hudson, and the first to feature a cover song. Although […]
Posted by Matt Brown on March 31, 2014
Well this is very timely. We defended DragonForce last week on In Defense of Their Good Name, and now the band has announced a new album and label switch. The sixth DragonForce LP will be titled Maximum Overload and will be the bands first release on Metal Blade Records. Guitarist Herman Li commented on the inspiration for […]
