DragonForce at 53 Degrees
Fresh from Donington, extreme power metal band DragonForce have announced their intention to take the roof off 53 Degrees this autumn.
Their Metal Hammer supported tour comes to Preston on Saturday 28th November. With their 4th album ‘Ultra Beatdown’ crashing into charts around the world, including top 20 on both sides of the Atlantic, and earning them a Grammy nomination for Best Metal performance, this London based multi-national act have really gone to new heights this year.
‘Ultra Beatdown’ had three hard acts to follow. If ‘Valley Of The Damned’ established the sextet’s fearless credentials in 2003, then ‘Sonic Firestorm’ (’04) and ‘Inhuman Rampage’ (’06) each took them further forward. In fact, the last named has now sold in excess of 600,000 worldwide, spawning the Guitar Hero III featured US Gold single ‘Through The Fire And Flames’, thereby giving DragonForce the cachet of being the most successful new British metal act in America for two decades!
Herman Li, fellow guitarist Sam Totman, vocalist ZP Theart, keyboard player Vadim Pruzhanov, bassist Frederic Leclercq and drummer Dave Mackintosh are always pushing the band to improve and develop. “You’ll find, for instance, that on ‘Ultra Beatdown’ we’ve been more varied in our pacing of songs” says Li. “I’m not suggesting for a moment that we’ve really slowed right down but, whereas in the past, you could say that things were fast all the way through, this time we made a real effort to be a little less frenetic throughout. I believe the approach works extremely well.”
Support comes from Massachusetts’ All the Remains & York’s Glamour of the Kill.
