Comments on: Dragonforce Are Here To Make Fretboards, Heads Explode

By: Hunter Campanile

Hunter Campanile — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:45:51 +0000

Please let me know we really didn’t look like that, dress like that, and dance prefer that? I swear I saw a guy who could pass for the sista, another Michael Jackson “don’t stop til you obtain enough” video clone, and Rhianna’s mother (the chick along with her hair right down to her ass dancing in a few sort of baby doll lingerie outfit). Oh that i’m sure I saw a Rick James wannabe in that room too. Pretty much everything before 10 each day!

By: Michaelangelo Matos

Michaelangelo Matos — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:10:04 +0000

“how did you guys not find out about Dragonforce two-three years ago when Idolator has only been around for about 19 months?”

By: D Law

D Law — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:22:28 +0000

See, Jess? Things are now, actually, the complete opposite of the way things were ten years ago….now this shit amazes you and annoys the hell out of me. Progress, Ahoy.

By: noamjamski

noamjamski — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:57:06 +0000

@Chris Steffen: You are totally right. My bad.

By: Cos

Cos — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:49:57 +0000

@Dead Air ummm Dead Air: Fuck. Dragon Warrior. Damn.

By: rogerniner

rogerniner — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:07:05 +0000

@sparkletone: Dumbledore must love these guys! Thanks, 2007!

By: Dead Air ummm Dead Air

Dead Air ummm Dead Air — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:03:03 +0000

@Cos: Jesus, I'm a dork, but

Dragon Force was a strategy/RPG on the Sega Saturn, not NES.

It's actually an amazing game that I my friend had. I think I used to watch him play it for hours. In hindsight we probably should have been playing sports or learning how to smoke or other things that were cool, but it was the mid-90s then. Times were different.

By: rogerniner

rogerniner — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:59:25 +0000

@edgyspice:
Hell, we'll just make one and send to them as a fan video.

We are still waiting on the "professional" video that was made at the event. I'll see if I can get up on youtube when we have it.

By: boobs

boobs — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:49:06 +0000

1. I'm not sure if it's Mike Tyson's Punch-Out or Castlevania, but I'm sure the Minibosses have covered this song.

2. During the duel shredding, the picture in picture sets the video ON FIRE AND AFLAME.

3. Considering 1) and 2), there's no way this came out after 1991.

By: edgyspice

edgyspice — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:32:11 +0000

@rogerniner: I think these guys should do an entire video with Icelandic horses tolting through walls of flame. I would watch that at least eleven thousand times.

By: Cos

Cos — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:20:53 +0000

80′s Nintendo RPG?

By: rogerniner

rogerniner — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:03:08 +0000

My fiance is an Icelandic horse trainer, and I always help her pick out the music for her riding showcases. Her riding team was going to be riding the horse in pace (fast!), while riding thorough a runway of made of fire. She wanted fast music. I played her some speedier techno, some drum n bass, and she staid she needed something faster. I played her some Slayer, half joking , but she said that was about the tempo she needed, but not that dark. I knew exactly what to do. I played her "Through the fire and the flames", and it was perfect. Watch this clip and listen carefully. None more metal than Viking horses riding through fire with Dragonforce playing in the auditorium.

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By: Chris Steffen

Chris Steffen — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:31:07 +0000

@noamjamski: *"Raining Blood"

By: Paperboy 2000

Paperboy 2000 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:49:10 +0000

Yeah, I was pretty shocked to see you guys just finding out about them now. They were in Guitar Hero 2 as well. BUT I’m surprised you didn’t hear about them three or four years ago when they had a MASSIVE promo push. I think my place of business got 8 copies of one of their albums. I’m pretty sure that’s how they ended up on Guitar Hero initially.

Once again…another call for no mentions of Eric Johnson’s Cliffs of Dover in Guitar Hero 3….one of the biggest wtf moments of 2007 for me. It’s surrounded by Slayer and Maiden for fuck’s sake!

By: Chris Molanphy

Chris Molanphy — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:45:58 +0000

Wow -- Hot 100, No. 86: How did I miss that yesterday? Apologies to readers of my column. (That would make "Fire and Flames" the one GH3-related song I listed that's eligible to appear on the current pop charts.)

As fan-friendly as posting the song for free is, it guarantees that Dragonforce's ride on the charts will be a short one. It's only on the Hot 100 right now thanks to iTunes sales.

By: Tenno

Tenno — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:41:59 +0000

Between these guys and 3 Inches of Blood, you’ve just been exposed to like, half the soundtrack of the internet. Next up: Chocolate Reign…

By: Jasonbob7

Jasonbob7 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:38:08 +0000

@Vince Neilstein: Of course it took this long for Dragonforce to make it here. They're the antithesis of a "blog band" - i.e., they don't take themselves too seriously and are incredibly proficient at their instruments. Unsurprisingly, Pitchfork makes zero mention of them anywhere and Stereogum only references them in an article about an Adult Swim cartoon.

Best video moment = 3:20, the dueling solos where one guy shreds while the other nonchalantly sips a soda.

By: AcidReign

AcidReign — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:25:05 +0000

It's definitely of the "put up or shut up" school of guitar histrionics. But... those guys aren't Yngwie. Note the almost complete lack of vibrato, and the same tone most of the way through the song. (Ok, they did pull out the wah pedal for a few notes...)

Pretty cool, nonetheless. I think it's great that this kind of stuff is still getting made!

The most notable thing about Yngwie's playing is NOT the number of notes per second he can play. It's the myriad number of different ways he can shake the same note. Vibrato, baby. Yngwie's the best in the biz at that...

By: Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee

Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:18:41 +0000

When I first heard “Through the Fire and the Flames,” I thought “This band HAS to have a Asian dude in it. There is no doubt in my mind.”

By: noamjamski

noamjamski — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:14:51 +0000

At the Nokia in 2006 they had a timer on stage set to 2:29, the length of Angel of Death. They played the song in its entirety until the digital counter went to zero and fired up. It was simultaneously awesome and ridiculously absurd. I'm pretty sure they had the trampoline there.

For recording nerds, listen to how Inhuman Rampage is mixed. There are so many guitars going on at once, the placements of everything is a tour de force.

Also, the "Operation Ground and Pound" video is funnier. They do the guitar solos as a fighting game. It just needs to be seen.