DragonForce - Ultra Beatdown
	Released: 2008 Genre: Metal Total duration: 58:51

Ultra Beatdown

Ultra Beatdown is the fourth studio album by English power metal band DragonForce, released on 20 August 2008 in Japan through JVC and on 26 August 2008 worldwide through Roadrunner Records and Universal Music. Ultra Beatdown is the last studio album to feature the vocalist, ZP Theart. He would make his departure two years after the release of the album .

DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage
	Released: 2005 Genre: Metal Total duration: 56:21

Inhuman Rampage

Inhuman Rampage is the third studio album by English power metal band DragonForce, released on 9 January 2006 and 20 June 2006 in North America. In America, the album reached number 1 in the Billboards Heatseekers chart; it also reached #103 on the Billboard 200 chart; and its first single "Through the Fire and Flames" has received rock radio and Fuse TV airplay, as well as a place as playable track on the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. The album has gone Silver in the UK, has sold over 350,000 units in the US and more than half a million worldwide. This is the only DragonForce album to feature harsh vocals, which were originally performed by Lindsay Dawson of Demoniac and are performed live by Frédéric Leclercq.

DragonForce - Sonic Firestorm
	Released: 2004 Genre: Metal Total duration: 62:42

Sonic Firestorm

Sonic Firestorm is the second studio album by English power metal band DragonForce, released through Noise Records on May 11, 2004.
This album features the song, "Soldiers of the Wasteland", which includes the longest guitar solo on any of their songs. At 9 minutes and 47 seconds, this is also DragonForce's longest song.
Sonic Firestorm was rereleased on February 22, 2010, along with the remastered and remixed version of Valley of the Damned. It also came with the bonus track "Cry of the Brave" which was originally on the Japanese version of the album.

DragonForce - Valley of the Damned
	Released: 2003 Genre: Metal Total duration: 51:47

Valley of the Damned

Valley of the Damned is the debut album by English power metal band DragonForce. In 2000, while their name was still DragonHeart, a demo version of the album was recorded and sent to Noise Records, subsequently gaining DragonHeart a deal with the label. It was later rerecorded in late 2000 and released as the band's debut studio album on February 25, 2003, following the band's obtainance of the deal with Noise Records. Furthermore, after discovering the existence of another band with the name DragonHeart, it was decided that they would change their name to DragonForce, the new moniker being clearly visible at the cover's top. This album was set to be remastered and released with a bonus DVD on September 24, 2007 but was subsequently delayed and was set for release in the UK on May 24, 2009. The remastered version of the album along with the rerelease of Sonic Firestorm was released on February 22, 2010.

DragonForce - Heroes of Our Time (HD Official Video)

The 51st Grammy Awards nominated performance and openning track of their chart topping album 'Ultra Beatdown'.

Top 20 national album charts in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Singapore and the Top 10 in Japan.

Check it out for the first time in HD! We made this available for you, the fans!

Dragonforce - Operation Ground And Pound (Official HD Video)

DragonForce - Through the Fire and Flames (HD Official Video)

The US & Canada Gold single off the band's third album 'Inhuman Rampage'. The original upload have over 33 million views and stil counting! Here it is for the first time on YouTube in HD. =)

DragonForce - The Last Journey Home (HD Official Video)

Retro 'Grand Theft Auto' inspired video game, meets modern day metal! Check out the second single from their fourth album 'Ultra Beatdown'. See it in YouTube HD quality for the first time here!

Vadim Pruzhanov

Born in Ukraine than later moved to London England, Vadim is the keyboard wizard of DragonForce.
With an early start on the piano at the young age of 8, Vadim studied at a music school since the beginning. Bored, he quit three years later and carried on as a self-taught player instead. It is at that time Vadim discovered rock music and decided to pursue it as a career. He got a small keyboard (Yamaha PSS-51) and started to create his own music at the age of 12 and carried on since. Apart from playing the keyboard, Vadim is also a capable guitar player who likes to spend time burning some solos on his Ibanez guitar.

Vadim Pruzhanov
Vadim Pruzhanov
Background information
Birth name	Vadim Pruzhanov
Born	June 18, 1982 (1982-06-18) (age 29)
Origin	Ukraine
Genres	Power metal, Glam metal
Occupations	Musician, Songwriter
Instruments	Keyboards Piano Vocals Guitar
Years active	2001-present
Labels	Sanctuary, Noise, Roadrunner Records
Associated acts	DragonForce, Protest the Hero
Website	dragonforce.com

Musical Influences
Yngwie Malmsteen, Devin Townsend, Strapping Young Lad, Steve Vai, Pantera, Judas Priest, Symphony X, Dream Theater.

Signature Stage Moves
Getting derranged!

Main Live Equipment
Korg M3 – 88 keys
Korg Triton Extreme
Korg X50
Korg N264
Korg Kaoss Pad KP3
Theremin with Rocktron G200 Guitar Processor
MIDIjet Pro – Wireless Midi System
AKG In-Ear Monitoring system
Customised Roland AX7












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Frédéric Leclercq

Frédéric Leclercq (born June 23, 1978 in France) is the bassist and backing vocalist for power metal band DragonForce and the guitarist/vocalist in his own band, Maladaptive. He is a session musician for various other bands, including George Lynch's Souls of We. He is also an ex-member of the French power metal band Heavenly and played several shows with Carnival in Coal in 2006.
According to his profile on Dragonforce.com, Leclercq can speak "French, English, German, and some dirty words in almost every language," and his signature stage move is "Black metal whiskey sculling."He was asked by Herman Li to help DragonForce on a few shows in North America and Japan as they needed a bassist. At first, he was only supposed to play on a sessional basis, but he played with so much skill and professionalism that he was offered the position permanently.
Leclercq played sessional rhythm guitar for Swedish power metal band Sabaton on their European tour in 2011, as regular guitarist Rikard Sundén had just become a first-time father.

Frédéric Leclercq
Frederic live in Sydney, Australia on May 9th, 2007
Background information
Born	June 23, 1978 (1978-06-23) (age 32)
Origin	France
Genres	Power metal, speed metal, heavy metal, thrash metal, death metal, progressive metal, black metal, hard rock
Occupations	Musician, songwriter
Instruments	Bass, guitar, keyboards, vocals
Years active	1992–present
Labels	Sanctuary Noise Roadrunner
Associated acts	DragonForce Maladaptive Heavenly Carnival in Coal Souls of We Jaded Heart Sabaton [1]
Website	dragonforce.com
Notable instruments
ESP FL600 Signature Series Bass ESP Horizon Electric Guitar Mister Fof Modele FL-4 Bass Guitar Mister Fof Modele FL-666 Electric Guitar

Playing influences

Leclercq is influenced by various guitarists such as Uli Jon Roth, Adrian Smith, Trey Azagthoth, and Marty Friedman.

Equipment

Leclerq uses ESP basses, and has a signature model, the LTD FL-600, as one of only three bassists (the others being Tom Araya and Henkka Seppälä). He uses an ESP horizon electric guitar whilst performing in Sabaton. For amplification he uses Peavey Tour 700 bass amps and 8x10 bass cabinets, along with a Samson UHF Wireless System.

Former bands and projects

• Hors Normes (Fusion) 1994-1996; 2000
• Memoria (Heavy-Black Metal) 1997-1999; 2000–2001
• Heavenly (Power Metal) 2000-2004
• Egoine (Hard Rock) 2003-
• Sudel's Project (Progressive Rock) 2005-

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Dave Mackintosh

Dave “Compact Dynamo” Mackintosh began playing at the tender age of eight, and discovered twin kick drums by twelve. Since then, he knew his musical direction, “Metal”! While performing and recording with plenty of unsigned acts throughout the years, he has gained valuable experience not only in his musicianship, but also in showmanship. his thirst for metal has grown ever more extreme. Only now, after two full length albums with black metal outfit Bal-Sagoth, is Dave able to cope with the extreme speed and intensity of DragonForce!

Dave Mackintosh

Birth name	David James Mackintosh
Genres	Power metal, black metal
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Drums, backing vocalist
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Sanctuary, Noise, Roadrunner
Associated acts	Dragonforce Bal-Sagoth
Website	dragonforce.com

Musical Influences
Neil Peart, Mike Portnoy, Tommy Aldridge, Charlie Benante, Ingo Schwichtenberg, Nicko Mcbrain, Jonny Maudling, Vinnie Paul.

Main Equipment
Tama Starclassic birch/bubinga, ultraviolet sparkle
Kicks: 2 x 22″ x 18″
Brass snare: 14″ x 5.5″ (main)
Starclassic maple 14” x 5.5 snare(secondary)
Toms: 8″, 10″, 12″, 13″, 14″
Floor Toms: 16″ & 18″
4 x octaban,left side
4 x octaban, right side
1 x 20” gong drum
Double tier, Tama power tower rack, with Tama road pro hardware
2 x Tama Iron Cobra pedals (rolling glide)
Roland TD-20bk meshheads and triggers
Vic Firth 5a extreme hickory sticks and stick bags

All Meinl Cymbals
14” Soundcaster Fusion Medium Hi Hats.
18” Soundcaster Fusion Medium Crash
10” Soundcaster Splash
18” Byzance China
18” Byzance Rock China
19” MB10 Medium Crash
10” MB10 Splash
18” MB10 medium Crash
19” MB20 Heavy Crash
18” MB20 Heavy Crash
20” MB20 Heavy Bell Ride
19” Soundcaster Custom Powerful Crash
17” Soundcaster Custom Medium Crash
15” Generation x China Crash
12”/14” Generation X Xtreme Stack

Evans skins
Toms: g2 coated top heads, g1 clear bottom heads
Snare: g1 coated / g1 coated with power dot











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Sam Totman

Ian Samuel "Sam" Totman (born 26 April 1979 in London, UK) is a guitarist and main songwriter for the power metal band DragonForce. Totman was born in England, but moved to New Zealand at an early age. He began playing classical guitar at the age of nine, receiving formal training for many years.
He was part of the blackened power metal band Demoniac, which also featured his future DragonForce bandmate Herman Li. During his time with Demoniac, Sam was referred to as Heimdall (the Norse God of vigilance). Demoniac struggled to achieve any real fame, despite releasing 3 albums and re-locating from Wellington, New Zealand to London, UK. Due to this, Demoniac split sometime in late 1999, shortly after the album The Fire and the Wind was released. Most of the members went on to form power metal band DragonHeart, which later became known as DragonForce. Keyboardist Steve Williams and bassist Steve Scott left DragonHeart to form Power Quest with whom Sam recorded on their demo and first album, Wings of Forever. Sam also provided guest instrumentation on the band's following album, Neverworld.
Totman is the primary songwriter of DragonForce, writing both music and lyrics for a majority of their discography.

Sam Totman
Sam Totman performing live with Dragonforce in Sydney, Australia on 5 May 2007
Background information
Born	26 April 1979
Genres	Power metal, Black metal, Speed Metal
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Guitar, Bass, Keyboards
Years active	1992–present
Labels	Sanctuary, Noise, Roadrunner
Associated acts	Dragonforce, Power Quest, Demoniac, Shadow Warriors
Website	DragonForce.com
Notable instruments
Ibanez STM1WH Ibanez STM2SPB Ibanez Iceman IC400 Ibanez VBT700

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Herman Li

Herman Li (Chinese: 李康敏, Hanyu Pinyin: Lǐ Kāng Mǐn;born on October 3, 1976 in Hong Kong) is a British Chinese musician, best known as a guitarist for the power metal band DragonForce.

Playing style

Li draws influences from rock, all sub-genres of metal as well as video game music and often mimics sounds from popular retro games from the late 80s, early-90s arcade, and PC games. For example, Li has been known for making several Pac-Man-type noises in the song "Through the Fire and Flames" on Inhuman Rampage. His playing style consists of fast descending and ascending legato and staccato licks, exotic scalar 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 tapping (especially two-handed) on the higher frets as well as incorporating many other shred guitar style techniques. Li is left-handed but learned to play right-handed. Recently, he has started to use a device called the Hot Hand that sits on his right hand like a ring, which causes extreme vibrato when shaken, giving him greater capacity to emulate certain video game sounds. Li has stated John Petrucci's fast guitar playing heavily inspired his own style.

Equipment

Guitars

Li uses Ibanez E-gen guitars, his signature Ibanez models based on his old Ibanez S Series, which was retired from stage at the end of the Inhuman Rampage tour. The EGEN18 has a 'Transparent Violet Flat' finish (transparent purple on a flamed-maple top), and the EGEN8 has a 'Platinum Blonde' finish (natural wood finish with a flamed-maple top). Both have a rosewood fingerboard and gold hardware. The E-Gen model has many unique features and improvements over a standard S, including its versatile tone selection with coil tap switching for both the bridge and neck pickups, Edge Zero bridge (the EGEN8 has Edge III), custom DiMarzio HLM pickups (the EGEN8 has Ibanez pickups) and an extended scoop on the lower horn of the body, as well as a 'Kung-Fu grip' on the upper horn shaped by Li's hand. It is currently Ibanez's flagship model for S body style guitars.
On 9 May 2010, Li announced via Facebook that he had received a custom-made Ibanez 7-string guitar. As of yet no details are known about this guitar, other than it has seven strings, and it is unknown whether it will be mass-produced for his E-Gen signature line.
Before the E-Gen, he had been known to play Ibanez S Prestige guitars. An Ibanez S470SOL (Japanese build 1995), a seven string Ibanez 540S7 (Japanese build 1991) (used in Revolution Deathsquad, Storming the Burning Fields, before the second verse and in the outro of Heartbreak Armageddon and the bridge section of Operation Ground and Pound), and an Ibanez S540FMTTS (Japanese build 1995). He has also been seen playing an Ibanez S2170FB and an Ibanez S2170FW. He also owns an Ibanez Jem7BSB, which has been used on every DragonForce album for recording rhythm guitar parts, an Ibanez J Custom RG, an Ibanez RG2228 (8-string model), and a PRS Modern Eagle, which he received as a gift from Paul Reed Smith and can be seen in the studio.

Herman Li
Background information
Birth name	Herman Li
Born	October 3, 1976 (1976-10-03) (age 34) Hong Kong
Genres	Power metal, neo-classical metal, progressive metal, thrash metal, black metal
Occupations	Musician, Producer
Instruments	Guitar
Years active	1993–present
Labels	Sanctuary, Noise, Roadrunner, JVC
Associated acts	DragonForce, Shadow Warriors, Demoniac, Labrat
Website	www.hermanli.com
Notable instruments
Ibanez E-Gen - Herman Li Signature Model

Notable awards and achievements

Li has won and featured in the following awards^[8]:

• Metal Hammer Golden Gods 2009 – Best Shredder Award
• Grammy Awards 2008 – Best Metal Performance “DragonForce” Nomination
• Guitar World Reader’s Poll 2007 – Best New Talent (winning by 70%)
• Guitar World Reader’s Poll 2007 – Best Metal
• Guitar World Reader’s Poll 2007 – Best Riff
• Total Guitar Reader’s Poll 2007 – Best Solo “Through the Fire and Flames”
• Terrorizer Reader’s Poll 2006 – Best Band “DragonForce”
• Terrorizer Reader’s Poll 2006 – Best Musician “Herman Li”
• Terrorizer Reader’s Poll 2006 – Best Live Act “DragonForce”
• Metal Hammer Golden Gods 2005 – Best Shredder Award
• Guitar World Magazine – 50 fastest guitarists

 

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DragonForce

DragonForce are an English power metal band from London. Formed in 1999, the group is known for its long and fast guitar solos, fantasy-based lyrics, and electronic sounds in their music to add to their retro video game-influenced sound. As of 2011 guitarists Herman Li and Sam Totman have remained the only two constant members, since original vocalist ZP Theart has departed from the group and has been replaced with Marc Hudson.

DragonForce
DragonForce in Melbourne in 2007.
Background information
Origin	London, England
Genres	Power metal
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Roadrunner, Universal, Sanctuary, Spinefarm, Noise
Associated acts	Demoniac, Shadowkeep, Power Quest, Shadow Warriors, Biomechanical, Son of Science, Bal-Sagoth, Powerglove
Website	www.dragonforce.com
Members
Herman Li Sam Totman Vadim Pruzhanov Dave Mackintosh Frédéric Leclercq Marc Hudson
Past members
ZP Theart Adrian Lambert Didier Almouzni Diccon Harper Steve Williams Steve Scott

Musical style

The band have frequently referred to their style as power metal. Herman Li commented on descriptions of the band's style in an interview with Guitar World: "'Nintendo metal', 'extreme power metal', 'Bon Jovi on speed', 'Journey meets Slayer', ... people are always coming up with weird labels for us." The band has sometimes been mislabeled as a speed metal band^. due to the fast tempos present in their songs, but always as a supplement to other types of metal descriptors.

Controversy

Controversy for DragonForce occurred in late 2006 shortly after the Inhuman Rampage tour gained larger audiences in later cities. The band had many technical difficulties with the guitars, which is deemed to be the most "stand-out feature" in their music. The band also drop-tuned their instruments to E-flat tuning on that tour. This, coupled with low-quality recordings of the live performances that were subsequently uploaded to the Internet, created rumors of the band speeding up their music in-studio due to being unable to perform it live at such speeds. The band dispelled these rumors in subsequent tours, performing their solos at the same speed as on the albums.^{[citation needed]} Herman Li stated, "Graspop Metal Meeting of 2006 was [a] total disaster. The technician we had back then didn't even tune the guitar, and no monitoring was done properly. We didn't hear anything...". He also said that most of the Inhuman Rampage tour was bad overall due to technical difficulties.

Band members

Current members

• Herman Li – guitar, backing vocals (1999–present)
• Sam Totman – guitar, backing vocals (1999–present)
• Vadim Pruzhanov – keyboards, synthesizer, backing vocals, theremin (2001–present)
• Dave Mackintosh – drums (2004–present)
• Frederic Leclercq – bass guitar, backing vocals (2005–present)
• Marc Hudson – lead vocals (2011–present)

Former members

• Didier Almouzni – drums (1999–2003)
• Diccon Harper – bass guitar, backing vocals (2000–2003)
• Adrian Lambert – bass guitar (2003–2005)
• Steve Scott – bass guitar, backing vocals (1999–2000)
• ZP Theart – lead vocals (1999–2010)
• Steve Williams – keyboards, backing vocals (1999–2000)