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DrinkHardThrashHard
at 2006-05-01 16:36:26
Y_Ddraig_Goch said:
matt tnr said:
brian_dc said:
I dig the nicaea room.
thanks dude.
dragonforce > everyone else
We shouldn't even bother with this kid if he thinks one a-type power metal band owns all other musical acts in history then he won't be on this site much longer.
I like Dragonforce, but I must say their cds are boring as fuck, after one song it all sounds the same, all the writing is very similar, there were times when I caught myself singing the wrong chorus at the show, but the thing was it fit perfectly with what they were playing. Dragonforce is indeed talented, but I must say there are tons of power metal bands out there that own them.
Ie Gamma Ray, Iced Earth, Angra, Pagan's Mind, Blind Guardian, Norther, Dark Moor, Lost Horizon, Luca Turilli, Helloween, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius, and much more
each of those bands is over all better than dragonforce. I love Dragonforce but I must admit that they are a type a band, they just take what others have done and play it faster, the appeal I think with dragonforce is
a) They are from an English speaking Country, thus youngsters when looking them up will figure that they sing in English, whereas if the band were from Finnland, norway, Iceland, Russia...ect, they would figure they speak in a funny foreign language, and no one wants to be caught listening to music from non english lands.
b) They are showboaters, they hop around and dance on stage.
c) all their songs asides from the two or three ballads they have, are the same fast tempo, where as other power metal bands put out all kinds of tempos, and often have acoustic songs, or symphonic support.
d) their are no harsh vocals, nor is there a change in the vocal range. Dragonforce stick to one range, sometimes going alittle higher where as other power metal bands used varried ranges going from low to deafing highs.
e) They appeal to video game nerds, their lyrics and some of the samples sound like pieces from games, infact Herman Li said himself he is heavily influenced from Nintendo video game music.
f) They have an Asian, and we all know that anyone not white in a rock band is a novelty and must be adored or it's racist.
g) Somewhere down the line some metal kids wanting to show an appealing crowd friendly metal band to non metal kids chose Dragonforce over bands like Immortal, or Kalmah and other such bands, they chose Dragonforce because it would be appealing to closed-minded music fans and thus most Metal kids for years have been pumping up dragonforce more than any other metal band to non metal kids in a hope of getting them into metal
that is why I think Dragonforce are all the rage, next time on "why good bands have bad fans; Chillen' of Bodom"
Great post brother, and you are right. They only appeal to certain videogame nerds though. I am a major videogame addict and I don't think their music has anything in common with most of the music except a few Rush'n'Attack/Megaman style melodies.
The funny thing is, this kid doesn't even have Dragonforce listed on his favorite bands on his MS page. Yet he says they are better than everyone else. Which says to me that he got into them about two weeks ago and hasn't updated. Bandwagon 101.
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