DragonForce: Extreme Power Metal Sensation

DragonForce were the metal sensation of 2006, making their mark right across the globe with a colossal run of shows to promote one of the year’s most remarkable releases.

‘Inhuman Rampage’ left the press in a state of critical meltdown. “While most bands want to be bigger than Metallica, DragonForce have the capacity to exceed Star Wars,” gushed the UK’s Metal Hammer magazine. “How DragonForce will ever top this album remains to be seen,” agreed its gobsmacked sister title, Classic Rock. “It makes Manowar sound like St Winifred’s Girls School Choir.” Kerrang! had already got in on the act, declaring: “DragonForce are only getting bigger. Prepare for the onslaught.”

But it wasn’t just Britain that fell under the band’s spell. Magazines from France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Holland, Japan and more joined them, and Germany’s Rock Hard astutely predicted: “DragonForce could become the first British metal band in ages to reap respect from all over the world.”

The six-man wrecking crew will have notched up 3 World Tours, including North America no less than four times for ‘Inhuman Rampage’, winning kudos from peers and influences alike, accumulating several shelves full of awards along the way, and sending audiences wild with an explosive musical style that features the band members favourite elements from all styles of music from rock, metal all the way to early 90’s video games music; a unique style that in the absence of anything more descriptive they like to call ‘extreme power metal’.