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Known as the fastest band in the world, Grammy-nominated extreme power metal band DragonForce is based in London, England. Their platinum-selling record, Through the Fire and Flames , brought them international acclaim and was featured as the most-challenging song on Guitar Hero III. Their energetic and humorous live performances have won them fans on every continent. The group is known for their long, complex and fast guitar solos performed by Herman Li and Sam Totman, who founded the band after meeting through a classified ad in As a nod to their passion for all things video-game related, the band frequently incorporates retro game sounds and melodies into their recordings and live shows.

You can listen the full chat below. We're always trying to add new elements to our music while keeping the same sound and, of course, keeping the melodies, the speed, and energy, of what we've built our signature sound on. With the new album, you get all the elements, but we tried to add new stuff in there. We even have a really long, epic minute song now. Fans have been asking for us to make it, so now we've finally done one. Herman : "Yeah, it's kinda funny. I still read it on the Internet these days: 'Do they speed it up?

Posted by Robert Pasbani on August 6, at pm. Dealing with racism and homophobia in metal can be a very touchy subject , but when you're a kid, a funny joke is a funny joke. Except, when you record what you presumed was a "funny" joke and release that music and then go on to be in a much more famous band, that initial "joke" may come back to haunt you. That's exactly what happened to members of Dragonforce.

He speaks English , French and Cantonese fluently. Li draws influences from rock , all subgenres of metal as well as video game music and often mimics sounds from popular retro games from the late 80s, earlys arcade, and PC games. His playing style consists of fast descending and ascending legato and staccato licks, exotic scale runs, making extensive use of the harmonic minor and Phrygian dominant scale , extreme use of his whammy bar , quick full ascending and descending sweep picking arpeggios, alternate picking and two-handed tapping on the higher frets as well as incorporating many other shred guitar style techniques.