Dragonforce Are Here To Make Fretboards, Heads Explode

jharv | January 11, 2008 10:45 am
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Ladies and gentlemen, because nothing says TGIF like a blast of hyperspeed fantasy gabba-metal, I give you the first great “hit” single of 2008 (even if it was originally released in 2006): Dragonforce’s “Through The Fire And Flames.” (Fire and flames! These guys are serious!)

These British power metallers have been releasing albums since the early ’00s, and “Through The Fire And Flames,” which you should download from their site for free right now, is brilliant silliness played headbanging, fist-pumping straight. The Illiterate, which tipped us off to the song now at No. 86 on Billboard Hot 100 thanks to (naturally) a Guitar Hero III inclusion, describes it as “sword and sorcery rock under the influence of early 90’s techno, like something off of Best of Techno, Vol. 3 played by Styx.” And it does sound like it could be a Rainbow tribute cooked up by gabba genius Marc Acardipane. It also sounds like something Don Coscarelli would have thrown over the closing credits to a straight-to-video ’80s action flick about killer trolls or endangered unicorns. (Except played really fast.) If Guitar Hero mania allows it to crack the Top 40, there may be hope for us all.

Dragonforce [Official Site] Top Ten Update [The Wisdom Of The Illiterati]

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