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Dragonforce-Dawn Over A New World: The History and Legacy of the Band



The band released their first live album, Twilight Dementia, on 13 September 2010, in Europe and 14 September 2010 in US and Canada. The album art, title, and release date were revealed on the band's official website on 22 June 2010. The performances were recorded on the final leg of the Ultra Beatdown world tour.[15] Regarding the album, Li stated:[15]


On 12 April 2013, the band announced that writing for a follow-up to The Power Within had been completed, and on 19 May 2013, DragonForce entered Fascination Street Studios in Sweden with Jens Bogren as the producer of the band's sixth album, Maximum Overload.[22] On 31 March 2014, it was revealed that Trivium vocalist/guitarist Matt Heafy would appear as a backing vocalist for the album, and that Ovenden would return after providing backing vocals for The Power Within. On 3 June 2014, DragonForce announced that they had parted ways with Mackintosh and had enlisted former Braindamage and Kill Ritual drummer Gee Anzalone.[23] Maximum Overload was released in the UK on 18 August, in North America on 19 August and in Australia on 22 August. A special edition which included five bonus songs was released in Japan on 19 August (the same date as the normal edition's release in North America) and in Australia on 22 August, at the same time as the release of the normal edition. To promote the album, the band embarked on their second world tour, beginning in Edinburgh on 17 September and ending in Brussels, Belgium, on 1 February 2015.




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On 10 June 2019, after more than two years of not being involved with DragonForce, Pruzhanov posted on his Facebook page stating that he had officially left the band in May 2018.[47] In July 2019, the band's eighth studio album, Extreme Power Metal, was announced and given a release date of 27 September 2019, and a music video for "Highway to Oblivion" was released.[48] Epica keyboardist Coen Janssen recorded keyboards for the new album.[48] In August 2019, Frédéric Leclercq announced that he would be leaving the band to pursue other projects;[49] the band later confirmed Leclercq's departure, and that YouTube personality and musician Steve Terreberry would fill in on bass for the band's US tour dates.[50][51] Terreberry eventually pulled out of the tour before playing a show due to his anxiety, and he released a video on his YouTube channel explaining his decision.[52] Once Human bassist Damien Rainaud, who also produced Extreme Power Metal, took over bass duties as a result.[53]


In January 2020, Alicia Vigil took over as the band's new touring bassist, beginning with their European tour.[54] In March, Anzalone was admitted to hospital with myocarditis and was forced to skip DragonForce's United States tour, with Aquiles Priester replacing him for the tour[54] until it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[55] In April, Li said that the band had decided to use the lockdown time to write new music for "a new album which isn't going to be out for ages", while also saying that they were considering recruiting Vigil as their next permanent bassist.[55] Vigil was later confirmed to be the new full-time bassist in one of Li's Twitch streams in February 2022.[56]


DragonForce (sic) are a British band famed for their epic fantasy lyrics and energetic, over-the-top style of extreme power metal. On the other hand, they are also quite widely hated for having songs with similar structure and writing, and being perceived by some as stereotyping Power Metal as nothing more than super fast guitars, double bass drums and high pitched vocals about dragons, as well as various false accusations that they digitally speed up their playing and the occasional It's Popular, Now It Sucks!. They're best known for their appearance in Guitar Hero 3.


InsomniaRadio is a small tight-knit family of volunteers on different continentsworking to bring you a wide variety of quality indie music since 2004 (At onepoint we had 12 Podcasts bringing in specialist Shows from Australia, U.K,U.S.A (7 different major Cities), Canada, Portugal & my show in NewZealand. Now there is 4 Active Podcasts including one that is a daily downloadand has exceeded 1000 consecutive daily postings. Usuallyrock-centric, we consistently dive into the musical ether for the love ofhelping quality independents, for the appreciation of discovery, and the purejoy of being music fanatics. I believe than even with the 4 shows westill are exposed to regular downloads from listeners of the whole networkwhen we were at our peak of 12 Shows.


Future plans are all ideas I constantly think off! Mini-flyers or Business Cards to give to bands at gigs to get back in contactwith me. T-shirts for me to get noticed easier at gigs. Maybetaking over the Australia Podcast (as its not-active currently) if I have time inthe future. Maybe small Sponsor to fund giveaways or regular airtimeduring my podcasts. Possible giveaways from Bands at their will? 2ff7e9595c


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