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Alecs	Date: September 12, 2006 @ 12:26 PM Has anyone else seen these guys? They're getting tons of hype and they're developing a huge fan base, and I have no fucking idea why! For those of you that haven't heard of Dragonforce, picture this: An asian guy with hair down to his ass raised in England and a drunk English dude playing sloppy harmonized solos while the drummer practically lays on double bass and snare and the bassist tremelo picks note after note. Add monotonous, out-of-breath vocals and you have Dragonforce! YAY! I hate these motherfuckers and I'm sick and tired of them being hailed as the saviors of metal. Anyone with a brain can tell these guys are shit. There's a video of them live on Google Video, and it's the worst thing I've ever seen. Their tone is horrid, they're out of tune and they're not together at all, the shredding is sloppy and the singer can barely keep up. And above all of that, people fucking worship that video! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?! DRAGONFORCE SUCKS! WHY THE HELL DO YOU WORSHIP THEM??!?! Just watch the video of them from Guitar World. It's sloppy as hell! Yet people practically accept Dragonforce as their own personal saviors and good band can't get any recognition because people are too busy watching Herman Li grow his hair out and do monotonous tapping licks. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Sorry for the rant, I'm just incredibly pissed at how much these guys suck.
BlackMage	Date: September 12, 2006 @ 3:34 PM Slow down there, Cooley.
Alstroph	Date: September 12, 2006 @ 4:14 PM I wouldn't go as far as to call them the saviors of metal. In my opinion System of a Down is the savior of metal. Dragonforce, however, is a great band. I saw them live at the Ozzfest and I have their new CD. I've heard no slop. They're tighter than dogs on acid. So apparently I have no brain. My one complaint about Dragonforce: almost all of their songs sound the same. That kills it. I say 7.5 or 8 out of 10.
Rikki27	Date: September 12, 2006 @ 5:39 PM I like them. They provide an alternative to the crappy nu-metal thats around these days. They hit hard, show arrogance, and beat the competition in terms of speed. Although speed isnt the most important thing mind you! cool band
Alecs	Date: September 13, 2006 @ 12:33 PM "They hit hard, show arrogance, and beat the competition in terms of speed." That's the thing, they're all about speed but they can't do shit with it. And they're arrogant as fuck. That's NEVER cool. Besides, their fast shit is almost without exception scales and arpeggios. I watched a solo of theirs that was literally 3 scales in a row and that was IT. When it comes down to it, they can't play their fast stuff well enough to make it interesting, anyways. Another thing that pisses me off is how they claim to put "video game noises" in their music. Has anyone else seen the video where he takes the whammy bar out of his guitar, rubs it against the strings and says "We call this the Pacman noise"? He struts around like he invented the whammy bar and all his whammy bar tricks he uses. I'd love to see them do a single thing without triple preamping their guitars or write a song without the words "away" and "day" in the chorus and a "woaaaaaaah" breakdown section followed by a mediocre guitar battle. Plus, what kind of douche bag would put a picture like this on his website?
Opossum	Date: September 13, 2006 @ 1:03 PM All I can say is... That's a lot of hair.
DeadraveN	Date: September 13, 2006 @ 1:06 PM could be worse. could be screamo.
BlackMage	Date: September 13, 2006 @ 2:39 PM Somebody's taking joking too seriously.
GreatGooglyM...	Date: September 13, 2006 @ 3:21 PM I don't hate anything or anyone more in this beautiful blue world than those motherfuckers. All they do is play easy licks at very high speeds, which equals wankery. It's easy to play in a studio when you can edit the licks and do many takes, but their live perfomances are absolutely horrid. If there's something that really makes shred look bad, then it's Dragonforce. Bloody wankers! But that's the way it goes; mediocrity is always praised by the wide audience.
GeneHilbert	Date: September 13, 2006 @ 3:36 PM where's her tits.....?
EchoMinor	Date: September 13, 2006 @ 3:52 PM you could easily just not listen to them if they bother ya that darn much.
Alecs	Date: September 14, 2006 @ 4:28 PM The problem is that Dragonforce is like the fatass moon blocking the rays of all the good bands in the world. They get so much attention it's sickening.
EchoMinor	Date: September 14, 2006 @ 8:17 PM well im into metal and i have never once heard of dragonforce, so they arent bothering me one bit.
invocati	Date: September 14, 2006 @ 9:41 PM You should be bitching about Paris Hilton and all the publicity she's getting. Miss porn queen gone pop star. Talk about crap!
Opossum	Date: September 15, 2006 @ 12:43 AM So, Easy licks at very high speeds = wankery? Gotcha.
EchoMinor	Date: September 15, 2006 @ 1:12 AM i just had my first listen to them and i accually like them, i guess i = wankery then. there is more to music than very complex licks, its not a requirement for great metal licks to be as complex in chops as say John Petrucci or Steve Vai.
GeneHilbert	Date: September 15, 2006 @ 2:03 AM So, Easy licks at very high speeds = wankery?......... LOL
EchoMinor	Date: September 15, 2006 @ 2:29 AM no easy licks at very high speeds = someone who put peanut-butter on the roof of their dogs mouth to play a cruel joke.
kingo	Date: September 15, 2006 @ 10:19 AM Man. Seems like the energy you expend hating those guys would work better for ya if you used it up thinking about things you like.
EvalLin	Date: October 2, 2006 @ 2:06 PM There ok, nothing special, I like about two of there songs...the rest are kind of the same, but not as good...The two I do like are 7 minutes long, they should have cut about 2 minutes off each song.
EvalLin	Date: October 2, 2006 @ 2:08 PM I found it interesting how happy they sound...almost way too happy for metal...but just before the point where it because unlistenable.
8111	Date: October 8, 2006 @ 1:23 PM wow...from the 30 seconds of video I could stomach...they DO suck. I would NOT use the word "metal" in the same sentance with them. God I thought these sissy-poser, girl-boys were out of fashion. I guess they can play their instruments, but anyone can learn how to swing a hammer and still not know how to build something worthwhile.
Alecs	Date: October 8, 2006 @ 9:05 PM On 8th Oct 2008, billrhynes said: wow...from the 30 seconds of video I could stomach...they DO suck. I would NOT use the word "metal" in the same sentance with them. God I thought these sissy-poser, girl-boys were out of fashion. I guess they can play their instruments, but anyone can learn how to swing a hammer and still not know how to build something worthwhile. Thank you, Bill!
GreatGooglyM...	Date: October 24, 2006 @ 4:29 PM On 8th Oct 2008, billrhynes said: I guess they can play their instruments, but anyone can learn how to swing a hammer and still not know how to build something worthwhile. To be honest, they can't. They use a lot of effects and distortion to mask their sloppyness. In studio that's possible, but when you see them live you realize that they're sloppy as hell. I'd love to hear Herman playing Les Paul with clean tone and without any effects.
Alecs	Date: January 5, 2007 @ 12:15 PM On 24th Oct 2008, GreatGooglyMoogly said: [QUOTE info=billrhynes,October 8, 2006 @ 1:23 PM] I guess they can play their instruments, but anyone can learn how to swing a hammer and still not know how to build something worthwhile. To be honest, they can't. They use a lot of effects and distortion to mask their sloppyness. In studio that's possible, but when you see them live you realize that they're sloppy as hell. I'd love to hear Herman playing Les Paul with clean tone and without any effects. [/QUOTE] Agreed 100% Plus, out of all the videos I've seen of them playing, I've never seen one where they're both in tune. And it's usually pretty blatantly horrible, too
Alstroph	Date: January 5, 2007 @ 1:10 PM I dunno... I've listened to them a bit. I still don't think they're as awful as some of you say.. but they are pretty annoying. They're like glam metal... and all they really do is play as many scales as they can as fast as they can. On top of that... all of their songs sound the same. But I still like them... somehow. I don't love them... but I like them enough to give them a listen every once in a while. It just reminds me of 80's fantasy metal... I love that stuff. They also remind me a little of Symphony X... but Symphony X is so much better than Dragonforce.
PrincessTast...	Date: January 5, 2007 @ 2:24 PM They're kind of a one-trick band, really. You've heard one Dragonforce song you've heard them all.
AceHenshawIII	Date: January 5, 2007 @ 7:46 PM the first song i heard it didnt sound bad, although alot of "medelee medelee medelee medelee boodele boodele boodele boodele weeeeeeeeeeeeee! waaaaaaaaa! wEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! (typical shred sounds) then all the rest of the songs sounded like that too, sooo... yeah glam, showing off fast licks, and rather boring.
GreatGooglyM...	Date: January 26, 2007 @ 11:02 AM I found this amusing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSNLfa1VPwo
PrincessTast...	Date: January 26, 2007 @ 11:13 AM Can they really make birds on people's heads? What is that their superpower?
GeneHilbert	Date: January 26, 2007 @ 12:24 PM LOL
GreatGooglyM...	Date: January 27, 2007 @ 5:35 AM On 26th Jan 2008, PrincessTastebud said: Can they really make birds on people's heads? What is that their superpower? Sure, but what's even cooler is that they can make Pacman and Mario sounds...
PrincessTast...	Date: January 27, 2007 @ 9:15 AM Mario could prob'ly beat them just by jumping on their heads three times.
Snoogans775	Date: February 7, 2007 @ 2:51 AM I saw Ground and Pound on TV when I was flipping through channels once, I thought it was tedious and jumbled. I haven't heard this live footage, but I would want to stab myself in my cerebellum if I had to listen to that song out of tune.
Svensta	Date: February 7, 2007 @ 7:42 AM I'm so glad to be in a thread where I can agree completely with Kingo. Honestly guys, fame... it ain't finite. There's plenty of famous out there for everyone. Why not focus all this energy on something positive, like your own music?
Snoogans775	Date: February 7, 2007 @ 7:32 PM because it feels good to yell at these bands, this is musical hedonism! nothing wrong with a little bit of that between band practices.
Alecs	Date: February 11, 2007 @ 6:33 PM On 7th Feb 2008, Svensta said: Why not focus all this energy on something positive, like your own music? That's how I'm trying to view it. Dragonforce's suckitude and simultaneous popularity is definitely motivation to practice...alot
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moam	Date: February 11, 2007 @ 6:36 PM Woah Apparently Dragon Force sucks big monkey cock
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PrincessTast...	Date: February 12, 2007 @ 8:43 AM DRAGONFORCE SUCK BIG MONKEY COCK =Typical search results for any given search on LimeWire.
EvalLin	Date: February 12, 2007 @ 1:23 PM I like the song "My Spirit Will Go On", which could have been 2 minutes shorter. But besides this, when I tried to listen to the rest of their albums, I couldn't. Maybe if they also had dark slower songs mixed with the happy speed songs, this would create a much needed contrast.
GeneHilbert	Date: February 12, 2007 @ 4:11 PM I don't know - from what I've read in the rags, everybody is all goo-goo for them.......
Alwex	Date: February 12, 2007 @ 4:43 PM ok watched and listened to some of their live videos and that was not so appealing to me...compared to some Music videos, which sounded Much better, but still nothing in my taste but the music videos i could listen to, atleast when im drunk..live i couldnt stand...but then i dont think Every live performance is as bad as the few i watched
shadowself	Date: March 9, 2007 @ 12:47 PM BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAAA!! I finally got around to checking them out, and it was on this page: http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=1285 It's #5 in the 5 most unintentionally bad albums. It sounds like 80s Bon Jovi playing Nintendo with Metallica.
K3VIN	Date: March 9, 2007 @ 1:20 PM looks like somebodies mad, a tad bit jealous,, the simplier it is.. the more simple minded people willl like it.
shadowself	Date: March 9, 2007 @ 5:35 PM What the fuck are you implying, K3vin? I am hardly jealous. I think that music is ridiculous. I like a LOT of complicated music. Dragonforce is just sheer wankery.
K3VIN	Date: March 10, 2007 @ 1:56 AM i was referring to threadmaker.. sheer wankery of not.. its popular because people are sheep.
Alecs	Date: March 10, 2007 @ 7:52 PM On 9th Mar 2008, K3VIN said: looks like somebodies mad, a tad bit jealous,, the simplier it is.. the more simple minded people willl like it. wait. me? you think I'm jealous of Herman Li and Sam Totman? That's actually kinda funny.
K3VIN	Date: March 10, 2007 @ 8:08 PM jealous of their undeserved fame.