They did something I never thought they could do...

Octahedron

DragonForce made a song with a melody. And it's actually, pretty freakin decent. 

It's called The Game and it features Trivium's Matt Heafy.

Yes in the past I'd agree, DragonForce were truly a band formed on the basis of absolute musical wank and just speedy guitar playing with no melody. Yes. There IS show-off stuff in here. There IS moments where it LACKS melody. It wouldn't be DragonForce if not for those sections of mindlessly indulgent instrumental sections. However, overall, this has actually captured my attention.

I'm sure they changed singers before their last album as well right? But yeah not the point... I think they're on to something here. What do we think?

breakstuff

Well your right,you certainly couldn't accuse the solos of having any melody.They're all obviously great musicians but it would be good to hear them put their skills towards something more 'tasteful'.Then again that just wouldn't be Dragonforce,would it?

Still too Euro Metal on acid for me and still grows very wearysome very quickly.

I've seen them live twice at Download back in the early days and they did put on a good show but he novelty factor has definitely worn off.

Philly_Q

The bit which kicks in at about 1.55 and again at 4.08 is pure Eurovision.  And they still do all that Nintendo rubbish in the instrumental section.

But it's alright, to be honest.  After two listens it's slightly growing on me.

daveyh

breakstuff said:

Well your right,you certainly couldn't accuse the solos of having any melody.They're all obviously great musicians but it would be good to hear them put their skills towards something more 'tasteful'.Then again that just wouldn't be Dragonforce,would it?

Nope, technically great guitarists but fucking awful musicians.

UnclePsychosis

I believe the technical term is "pish". 

ICBM

Philly_Q said:

The bit which kicks in at about 1.55 and again at 4.08 is pure Eurovision.  And they still do all that Nintendo rubbish in the instrumental section.

I wasn't going to watch it until I read that…

Actually the whole thing is pure Eurovision comedy gold ).

stevenguitars

0:26      raise your keytars to the sky !

stevenguitars

Philly_Q said:

The bit which kicks in at about 1.55 and again at 4.08 is pure Eurovision.  

TOTALLY

monquixote

What's with the video?

Are they sponsored by Microsoft Powerpoint?

axisus

I actually quite like their first album.