This was a band that did things similarly to the likes of Gamma Ray, Stratovarius and Hammerfall, they simply did it faster and fancier, achieving a niche similar to what Michael Angelo Batio’s famed late 80s band Nitro brought to heavy metal within a power metal context, complete with a similarly auspicious virtuoso axe-man in Herman Li to launch an already cartoonish sound into the proverbial stratosphere. However, this sound wasn’t extreme so much for an intermingling of those death/black metal elements that came to define the Finnish melo-death sound of the early 2000s, but more so for being an exaggerated expression of power metal’s Helloween roots. Born out of the twilight of the late 90s intermingling of older melodic metal stylistic trappings with death and black metal that birthed a blackened New Zealand rival to Children Of Bodom dubbed Demoniac, there has always been an implicitly extreme character to their signature sound. Despite being one of the more popular and arguably iconic figures to come out of the millennial power metal revival, DragonForce shares a somewhat odd relationship with the broader scene.
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