DragonForce
Inhuman Rampage

THE REVIEW

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Today yours truly DeJesusReviews an amazing album, no, what am I saying, an astonishing album: "Inhuman Rampage" by those sacred monsters Dragonforce who for two or three years now have been carving out a massive following among power metal fans, more and more fans attend their concerts and increasingly appreciate their technique and style. Enough already, ON TO THE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!

The quintet's album opens with "Through Fire and Flames", a song with a high level of violence in playing the instruments and a high level of technique, especially from the guitarists: Herman Li and Sam Totman who in all the albums they've made (3) have really delighted aspiring guitarists worldwide and beyond. The first track is aggressive, powerful riffs, high-pitched vocals that fit perfectly with the band's power metal music, the drums are aggressive yet very technical, not to mention the keyboards. However, we need to make a parenthesis about the guitarists: these young gentlemen, because they surely aren't over 30, are revolutionizing the guitar world to such an extent that Yngwie Malmsteen declared, "Herman Li is a great young man and surely in a future G3 I'll give him my spot"(?).

Let's move on to the second song which is "Revolution Deathsquad", it starts immediately aggressively with a palm-muting riff from the two guitars that has influences from the Far East (China) just like all of Herman Li's solos (no wonder he is from Hong Kong). The song then develops beautifully, it might be a bit too long and should have been shortened but it's fine as it is.

The third track is in my opinion one of the worst on the album "Storming the Burning Fields", it's very power metal but it's too long and a non-power metaller might get very bored listening to this song. At this point, we need to make a tiny parenthesis about the album. Before recording, this album was supposed to be named "Supersonic Firestorm", the previous album by the quintet was called "Sonic Firestorm". And you readers might say, "What's wrong with that?". The problem is that if you listen to the album in question before the previous album, the riffs but especially the solos by Herman Li are completely identical if not very similar. The solo toy seems to have broken and with it the mechanism of the new riffs of the new album. However, I still listen to this album which is now going through its "worst period" because with "Operation Ground and Pound" Dragonforce hit rock bottom, not so much because of the song itself, but because of the repetition of it, it seems to have been stolen from their first album (although I can't remember the name of the song it refers to).

The fifth track is "Body Breakdown", the winning ingredients for this song are the powerful solos and the voice which has a predominant role throughout the song. Even "Body Breakdown" has something already heard and this is precisely what penalizes our Brits. Track seven does not disappoint as Dragonforce do their best "Cry for Eternity" is a truly emotion-filled and astonishing song, written by the second guitarist Sam Totman, it boasts the best guitar solos of the entire album. Let's move on and dive back into the world of Dragonforce with the song called "The Flame of Youth", written instead by the first guitarist Herman Li, this song is also beautiful, no, astonishing but the solo vaguely reminds me of "Black Winter Night" from their first album. And with the eighth track "Trail of Broken Hearts" closes one of the most beautiful albums of 2006, full of emotion, technique, and charm, as furthermore the eighth song is truly beautiful and is rich with a new emotion in every riff.

Let's hope that after this album Dragonforce mature and change not genre but at least the "setting" of the songs because if they make another album similar to this it will surely be acclaimed but it could also fall into banality

Greetings from Kissarmy!