DragonForce's music trend is not only influenced by avant-garde metals, but also incorporates the essence of top melody power metal styles (such as Stratovarius) and symphonic metals (such as Rhapsody), as well as the classic Helloween styles of Michael Kisker and Kay Hansen. However, Dragonforce is slightly superior in bloodline. The most commendable thing is that Herman Lee's guitar performance has indeed surpassed all guitarists in similar bands in recent years. After listening to "Black Winter Night", which caused a sensation in mp3 downloading, you can feel what it means to play guitar with skill, melody, speed and strength! In addition, the guitar sweeping technology, which is almost lost now, has finally been fully resurrected in this album! It is really exciting! What about the other songs? Except blood!
To some extent, Dragonforce is a miracle, headquartered in London, a country where their musical style hardly exists. They were formed on 1999.9, originally named Long Zhixin, and changed their name to Dragonforce on 200 1. 12 to avoid being confused with other bands, brands and movies.
At first, the band consisted of two guitarists Herman Li and Sam Totman, the lead singer Theart and the keyboard player Vadim pruzhanov. Later, bassist Adrian Lambert and drummer David McIntosh joined in, and a standard rock band was born. But the only difference between them is the fusion of many cultures (Hong Kong, Britain, New Zealand, South Africa, Ukraine), which is unprecedented for a new band.
The early Dragonforce style can be said to be a combination of contemporary melody energy metal and speed metal rage. By absorbing and mixing various aspects that people like in rock and metal, they gradually formed their own unique style, including classic/strength/lash/speed/death/progress metal/hard rock and video game music. Playing with high energy like octane, the best positioning of Dragonforce's music may be' extreme power metal'. Shine on you is better than blue! )
Super touching and unforgettable melody with some barbarism, speed, energy, complex double guitar stunts and extreme metal drums are just some features that set them apart from most other bands. And that brutal voice can't hide the band's unquestionable creative ability.
A few years after the underground metal band became famous, they began to make a homemade demo. At that time, the download volume of this song on only one site exceeded 500 thousand.
Later, Dragonforce toured Britain with the popular halford, strato Warjus and Virgin Steele, as well as his own performances. At that time, they never released any albums at all. On the basis of their debut, metal fans witnessed what they knew but the media didn't know until then, "The Rise of Longli: Japan's heat ranking 1?" Marilyn Manson/second place? Hello/No.3? Dragon power. Later, the band was invited to perform in Southeast Asia for the first time, with Thailand as the leading role, Japanese tour as the opening performance of Helloween, and Taiwan Province Province as the guest.
After intense album reviews and album sales in Europe, the band was invited to participate in some famous music festivals, such as Swedish rock, Spanish Torres rock, German young metal god and British thoroughbred horse, so it was selected into the top 20 Finnish newcomer awards, and Beyonce, Darkness and 50 Cent were also selected.
From June 5438+00 to June 5438+02, 2003, the band recorded a new album "Sonik Fire Storm" in the personal studios of guitarist Herman Lee and producer Carl groome, and it was published in April 2004.
In 2009, Dragon Power came to China to perform.