Dragonforce |
| Genre:Power MetalFormat:CDTracks:8 Label:Roadrunner RecordsYear:2008 |
Following my review of Killswitch Engage’s As Daylight Dies I’ve received countless requests to review more mainstream metal releases, the one band I had the most requests to review was UK power metallers Dragonforce. Having recently signed to Roadrunner Records and gaining mass publicity through their appearance on the video game Guitar Hero 3: Legends Of Rock, Dragonforce are poised to become “the next big thing” in metal.
I’d never heard Dragonforce before and didn’t think I’d be the best person to review their material as other staff members were already well acquainted with the band and their music. When I asked if they’d be interested in reviewing their latest full length offering Ultra Beatdown reactions ranged from “if you make me review that fucking band I quit” to “if you make me listen to that fucking band I will go to your house with an axe and cut your hands off and feed them to you.” Based on their reactions you’d think I asked them to give me a prostate examination with a gloveless finger while giving me a reach around. I knew then what must be done; I’d have to man up and review it myself.
Ultra Beatdown opens with "Heroes Of Our Time" which bursts forth like a rave at a gay bar filled with men draped in feather boas, cutoff jean shorts and construction boots parading about like they’re trying out for a part in Fame. The music is a swirling whirlwind of flaming technical riffing, 80s hair metal singing and what sounds like the keyboardist who performed on Europe’s "The Final Countdown".
The eight tracks on Ultra Beatdown are marathons, clocking in at an average length of seven and a half minutes for each song. The best way to describe their music would be to take the absolute cheesiest aspects of 80s hair metal, speed it up, add some keyboards and high pitched 80s hair metal vocals while a group of the most effeminate men imaginable perform a circle jerk around Dragonforce as they shred away at their instruments.
I’ve heard some ridiculous over-the-top shit in my 25 years of listening to metal, and I’ve seen some ridiculous over-the-top shit in my 5 years working in the porn industry, but Dragonforce’s Ultra Beatdown is by far the most flamboyantly gay thing I have ever experienced in my life. Watching George Michael, Rob Halford, Elton John, Lance Bass, Boy George and Liberace in a bareback leather orgy where each man shoves fireworks up his urethra and anus and sets them alight for a bright sparkling climax would only be half as gay as this.
Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against homosexuals, if you’d rather have some effeminate guy named Steve to shove his dick in your ass so you can poop funny and bleed from your ass for a week than to stick your dick in a warm inviting vagina then that’s great! Jack off all over each others’ faces, jam your fists up each others ass while reciting Shakespeare and dressing up like giant hideous Vegas showgirls, just really go all out with it.
The point I’m trying to make is this; if you love vagina and boobs and ever hope to have a girl let you touch either one of them then you should absolutely not listen to Dragonforce. Listening to Dragonforce is the first step to admitting to the world that you would rather visit an NBA locker room so 7 foot tall behemoths can park their cocks in your ass than to go to the Playboy mansion and have an orgy with all of the Playmates from the last 5 years. Just wearing a Dragonforce t-shirt sends a clear message to all women and men who see it, the message isn’t “Hey, I’m a Dragonforce fan.” the message reads more like a giant arrow on your chest pointing towards your mouth that reads “INSERT COCK HERE!” with another arrow on the back pointing down towards your ass with another message that reads “INSERT COCK HERE!”
I know there are Dragonforce fans out there who will get upset and offended by the things I say. They’ll say dumb shit like I don’t know what good metal is and that I can’t appreciate the technical complexity of Dragonforce and their music. I’ll admit, the members of Dragonforce are excellent musicians, they show a great deal of talent and technique, however… the music of Dragonforce is much like a big budget movie. It’s like taking action movie icon Arnold Schwarzenegger of Predator, Terminator and Conan, sticking him in a movie with Oscar winner George Clooney, Oscar nominee Uma Thurman and Vivica A. Fox… can you imagine how brilliant that could be? Wow… surrounding Schwarzenegger with real acting talents?!?! Then make it a Batman movie. Holy shit! The potential awesomeness is making my dick hard and my brain malfunction. You get hyped for it, waiting for months for it to be released and then finally it hits the screen; Batman & Robin starring multiple Oscar award winners and nominees, a cast overflowing with talent and… it’s a huge steaming pile of shit! That’s Dragonforce.
The bottom line is, if you like Dragonforce never admit it to anyone. Ever. You’d get a much better reaction from people if you were to tell them you were a serial dog fucker with a fetish for smearing dog shit on your face and are physically unable to stop yourself from grinding your cock inside every animal you see without a leash. I need to turn this fucking CD off before I do something regrettable like smearing peanut butter all over my balls and inviting the neighbor’s dog over for a visit. This album is fucking awful, if you like this band do yourself a favor and try jerking off into your own mouth on your front porch instead of listening to their music, it’ll be much less embarrassing than having someone find out you actually like this stupid band.
Infester
"To The Depths... In Degradation"
Flesh Consumed
"...Mutilate, Eviscerate, Decapitate..."
Artery Eruption & Inhuman Dissilency
"Festering Fuckhole Slop"
Festered
"Flesh Perversion"
Impetuous Ritual
"Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence"
Syphilic
"Symphony of Slit Throats"
Anaal Nathrakh
"In The Constellation Of The Black Widow"
Intestinal Disgorge
"Vagina"
Without Mercy
"Without Mercy"
Nile
"Those Whom The Gods Detest"
Portal
"Swarth"
Five Finger Death Punch
"War Is the Answer"
As You Drown
"Reflection"
The Black Dahlia Murder
"Deflorate"
Slayer
"World Painted Blood"
Hour Of Penance
"The Vile Conception"
Flayed Disciple
"Drawn Viscera"
Behemoth
"Evangelion"
Sickening Horror
"The Dead End Experiment"
The Ruins Of Beverast
"Foulest Semen of A Sheltered Elite"
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Technically, Dragonforce is incredible.
Musically, it is what its within its genera.
Is it for everybody? That’s where personal taste comes to play its role.
But all that aside, as a reviewer myself, I found offensive the way this was reviewed.
By definition a reviewer is to the community what reporters are to Real Life. We provide a stable evaluation by means of an independent, and fair article about, in this case, music. You can compare it with surgery: just like those doctors open up those cute guinea pigs to point out the organs, we open up the music and make notes on what we find.
Your review must be unbiased toward or against the musicians and the type of product you are reviewing. Hey… I don’t say you couldn’t be passionate about the music, just you should not go in thinking “this type of music always sucks” or “this is my favorite group” and then allow your own bias to influence your writing. You do not have to LOVE every record, nor the playing, nor the cover, nor any other aspect of the production, but don’t be disrespectful of somebody else’s hard work, knowing that other people will be influenced by what you write. Even negative critiques can be said in a pleasant way. Finally, no one should make personal attacks or derogatory remarks. Don’t waste the readers’ time complaining about the sexual preferences (your or theirs) and focus in the task of reviewing the record. You’re speaking directly to the Community: let them know your thinking, but stick to what’s relevant: the music.
If you are looking for objective and “unbiased” reviews(By definition, EVERY review is biased),I think you are in the wrong site buddy.
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And Dragonforce music is still gay as fuck.
I like dragonforce and have a girlfriend, I prefer vaginas rather tan my ass bleeding, should I quit on dragonforce? ^_^
Terrible review.
You indulge us in more of your “I think gay stuff is fucking hilarious” humor, and then you call all Dragonforce fans gay? Are you that immature?
You are the perfect example of a person infected by the stereotypes that this world puts on gays.
extremely happy/uplifting equals gay: check
all gay men are effeminate: check
all gay men are into niche fetishes: check
You sound like an uninformed 12 year old with an increased vocabulary. Oh wait, an uninformed 12 year old with an increased vocabulary, that has had bad gay experiences.
Grow up, and write a decent review for the next DF album instead of littering it with your homophobic (and quite offensive) jokes.
By the way, I love pussy, and I love DF. I just proved your entire review wrong.
haha I almost died laughing!!
Hey fuck face, you’re big and tough behind your computer you little faggot. Jerking off to dragonforce videos and then openly bashing them on your little fagot ass site. — The truth is you are nothing, you have no tallent except for bringing your familly dog to orgasm in less than a minute (over 7 times during the course of a dragonforce track) I studied music at the university level for 9 years and I can tell you from someone who knows everthing about the very “art” that you are bashing, is that dragonforce are probably the most tallented musicians alive today. Regardless of weather or not myself or anyone actually likes the music, their tallent as muscians is something very few can match. So before you come back with some little 1 line cheap shot, big fuckin’ talk for a little fucking pussy at his computer desk (witch is glazed over with a layer of hardened cum) let me say this: Fuck you and your Mom sideways, fuck your brothers and your sisters and your whole fucking closet of faggot boyfriends. I’m married, my wife loves Dragonforce, moreover she loves me and my music. She’s not gay, neither am I or our children. Nor is our 6000sqft house or our 3 month vaction we take every year cause we can afford it!! The point I’m trying to make is this: Show us some tallent, if you are such a fucking loud mouth! If you don’t… I challenge you to come to ottawa and tell me all your fucking pussy ass computer screen tough-guy comments to my face, I’m serious. I will post you a number and you can get in touch with my secratary and we’ll take a meeting as they say.
sincerely,
Shut the fuck up.
Ever think about why Dragonforce is one of the most popular bands at the moment showing skill and technical complexity in music, and then looking at the rest of the metal core scream shit that is just one straight drop tuned “Top string” shred all the way through with some asshole screaming about rotting corpses and dead animals on this site that nobody knows nor gives a fuck about that you have written decent reviews about. I realy wonder how you can call DF shit after that, realy.
I accept that people like Dragonforce but without bringing the sexuality issue into this; I’d just like to say that their “talent” is artificially created. The solos are studio manipulated, granted every band manipulates some shit in the studio here and there but Dragonforce can’t replicate it live most of the time. Thats the number one reason I look down upon them, I mean yeah I think the songwriting and singer are both incredibly flamboyant and not to my liking but my biggest issue is that people praise their musicianship constantly but they’re one of the most fake bands out there. I’d wager Ozzy has less pitchshifting on his pitiful out-of-key wails these days than the amount of studio dickery that goes into making a Dragonforce album.
@ Carminebiotch: You calling bands like Dead Congregation, Squash Bowels and Exit Wounds “metal core scream shit” that’s apparently worse than Dragonforce? How unenlightened you are. And some people DO know AND give a fuck about the music you claim nobody likes. Nyah nyah.
I honestly don’t hear what’s so “amazing” technically about Dragonforce. First off, in the studio it’s easy to sound like shred masters. Live I didn’t hear anything particularly tight or impressivefrom them. The whole “who’s faster than who” is so over. All these players do when they shred is sound anonymous…there’s just too much of it, and precious few whom can shred something that has musical value(defintion of musical value: any piece of music, including cadenze, that contains something memorable, while remaining intricately interactive with the music behind it. So many people listen to the studio concocted masturbation fests and “wow” over it, but ever check out the mega-lame backings? Most of the time, the backings consist of simple three to four chord rudimentaries that a first year guitar student could play.
you all are poopdeck swabbing fanny pirates. Teufel needs to get a 20 oz of shut the fuck up and an eat a dick sandwhich. Fuck metal, fuck Dragonforce, fuck rock. I bet you all are emo fucks who do circle-jerk masturbating and cut yourselves to sleep. So do me a favor, all of you, get lives then throw them away.
Sincerely yours, Another Hater
Brother, you are fucking hilarious! But I don’t see things from your perspective. Dragonforce is one of the best bands I’ve ever heard and I don’t give a shit what anyone else thinks. My favorite genre of music is power metal: Bands like Manowar, Hammerfall, Rhapsody, Iron Savior, Battlelore and Ensiferum. And Dragonforce has that epic sound that all of these bands share, and that’s what it is: epic. Sure they don’t growl and scream so much but there are different sounds for different times. Yeah, I’ll listen to death metal but only if I’m trying to be thrown into a rage. The reason I like Dragonforce may not be the same as most other people. I think most people like them cause their guitarist is super fast. Big deal. It’s the sound that captures me, and what they sing about. No other genre of music emphasizes the thrill of battle, fighting for what you believe in, killing your enemies with power and triumphing in the end. I don’t know why no one can appreciate Power Metal. I guess everyone just wants to listen to whatever everyone else around them is listening to and just don’t give a fuck what the music actually sounds like. They’re weak and probably never had to fight for anything they loved. I’ve been listening to power metal exclusively for 3 or 4 years now. Dragonforce and the whole Power Metal genre is definitely cheesy, but I would much rather charge across a field toward thousands of enemies, screaming my frenzied warcry, bury my axe into someone’s skull and die valiantly than wallow in the vile disgustingness of this world. A world of weakness, hopelessness and evil. Power Metal has given me the strength over the years to get where I am today. I can now bench 275lbs and am jacked as hell and everyone respects me. So Teufel, hope our paths never meet because I will crush your skull with my bare hands if you ever bash Dragonforce again unless you have a good reason… and it better be a really good reason like if they ran a train on your wife/girlfriend.
Bezerker, I hope your not serious because your comment was the most frivolous attempt of self-affirmation i have ever read. You reek of shit and smegma. After several decades of metal being slated for no just reason (deservedly in this case) you would think fans could ignore a negative review without going all fan-boy. fucking get a life and type dragonforce review into google if you want to see their cocks lavished for your pleasure. fucking sheep
ok so im guessing you didn’t like the album.
why is this even on here? this is a terrible review. I doesn’t even talk about the music just how much this prick doesn’t like some band and gay people. And compared to the other scream shit on here (which isn’t music) dragonforce is actually quite good. It may not be your music but calm down dude you dont have to listen to it. this isn’t a review, this is a homophobic hate rampage titled “Review of Dragonforce’s Ultra Beatdown” The fact of the band doesn’t even matter that much anymore, this guy is just has some issues with gays
oh yeah,
Dragonforce for life mother fuckers
and this album was good
Nice way to stir up some trouble with this. Review some more bands that suck. do some metalcore ones now. But one thing, you talked too highly of their musicianship. its just tapping garbage – not so hard to play