Prepare yourself for a gripping, exhilarating ride when DragonForce release their much-anticipated US debut, 'Inhuman Rampage' on Roadrunner Records. The album’s title is an apt summation of a devastating musical journey, an unstoppable force that the six-man group brings forth on tour, leaving devastated cities in its wake. Combining the primal force of Power Metal with hard-earned musical proficiency, influences from band members’ various cultural backgrounds and generous quantities of muscular melody in a unique style that they call 'Extreme Power Metal', DragonForce have established themselves as THE premiere international Heavy Metal export. The US version contains an enhanced video of "Through The Fire & Flames".
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Product Details
Audio CD Release Date:
June 20, 2006
Studio:
Roadrunner Records
Number Of Discs:
1
Format:
Enhanced
Average Customer Rating:
based on 124 reviews
Track Listing
1.
Through the Fire and Flames - Dragonforce, Totman, Sam
2.
Revolution Deathsquad - Dragonforce, Totman, Sam
3.
Storming the Burning Fields - Dragonforce, Pruzhanov, Vadim
4.
Operation Ground Pound - Dragonforce, Totman, Sam
5.
Body Breakdown - Dragonforce, Pruzhanov, Vadim
6.
Cry for Eternity - Dragonforce, Totman, Sam
7.
The Flame of Youth - Dragonforce, Li, Herman
8.
Trail of Broken Hearts - Dragonforce, Pruzhanov, Vadim
Customer Reviews
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My favorite album. Period. Jan 03, 2009 I don't want to allow my enthusiasm to gush out of me when I write this, so I'll try to keep this review civilized, although it will be hard for me since I AM reviewing one of the greatest albums I'll ever listen to. Dragonforce is a group of musicians who essentially adored metal and wanted to take the fast and harmonious power metal branch up to a new level. They did so with a new and celestially gifted guitar duo of Herman Li and Sam Totman who would compare to other phenomenal duos such as James Hetfield/Kirk Hammett and Dave Murray/Adrian Smith, a drummer Dave Macintosh who marches out and maintains a beastlike pulse, the fleet-fingered keyboard maestro Vadim Pruzhanov, and the god-like vocals, atmosphere piercing vocals of ZP Theart. The songs you'll hear from these guys are all generally anywhere from 6 to 9 minute long ballads bring a strong new passion to the music industry. The music takes the elite talent and harmony of eighties era metal, speed it up to the pattern of thrash, and bring the futuristic sound of nineties power metal all together for one empowering sound. A few possible downsides to this:
1.) The music is relentlessly fast. In fact, there's been alot of speculation on the possibility of the band speeding up their tracks to make this speed real. Having seen the band play live up close and personal twice, I totally disagree: They honestly DO play that fast. Several people consider this one of the main reasons to adore Dragonforce, but if you don't enjoy the double-bass drum type of speed, you might not enjoy it.
2.) Being a power metal band, the lyrics and titles generally encompass fantasy setting lyrics. If you're bothered by melodramatic and slightly cliched lyrics, you'll probably scoff at this.
3.) Because the guitarists spend a huge amount time playing solos through the high notes in major scales, there are times when the song will sound soprano and beautiful: the epitome of what some people hate when they prefer branches of metal that are closer along the lines of Cannibal Corpse, Korn, Pantera, Amon Amarth and Slayer. Although there portions where they sound have somewhat of a heavy crunch going on, there are certainly heavier and nastier sounding animals out there.
Inhuman Rampage specifically is my favorite of out Dragonforce's repertoire of four albums mainly because this one seems like it's trying to top itself with each song on it. After putting up with several acts that were post grunge, dull, whiny, or just badly blended together, I listened to this and felt like I was being shown a completely new spectrum of the genre I thought I knew. I had been waiting specifically for something like this to come and push the bar of what I thought was extraordinary to an even higher level. It was uncanny that I had found this band, let alone this album, that was trying to perform and excel at everything I love in metal. Try it out and see what you think.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
A 56-minute guitar wankfest Dec 02, 2008 I bought this album two years ago and have tried again and again to keep an open mind while listening to it. It was incredibly difficult to do this when these guys are really just one-dimensional.
That dimension, of course, is their guitar playing. INHUMAN RAMPAGE is basically a really long guitar solo, played at blistering speed. Their MO is very simple: melt the listener's face off with guitar solos. And that's it. I originally believed that, after watching the hilarious video for "Operation Ground and Pound," one of only two good songs on this album, these guys might be interesting. Sadly, not to be. After putting this album on and listening for a few songs, I became quite disinterested, and I point to the guitar wankery as a root cause.
Just because the two guitarists can play 900 miles per hour doesn't mean that they're "guitar gods." I'd like to believe that a musician's skill can be measured by more than just how fast they can play; for instance, how adaptable they are, among others. These guys basically are just shredding relentlessly for seven minutes at a time and next to nothing else. By the end of the second song, I was bored out of my mind, hoping that they might do something different. Because they didn't, however, they are, in my opinion, little more than computers programmed to play notes in a set pattern.
Dragonforce have nothing else going for them but their guitarists; this becomes apparent by the third song. The drummer plays essentially the same pattern for every song, blast beats and everything. The session bassist they hired for recording is nearly inaudible, save for a few bars in the middle of "Body Breakdown." The lyrics are basically composed from a vocabulary of only 300 words in the English language and are overly repetitive throughout; the phrases "flying free" and "last horizon" are repeated again and again on this album.
It would be interesting if, heaven forbid, Dragonforce would actually record an album with more variation. While sometimes self-indulgent, modern day guitar greats such as Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Steve Morse, John Petrucci, and Alex Lifeson at least know how to change it up now and then. Nowhere is that sore of adaptability found on INHUMAN RAMPAGE.
dragonforce Oct 27, 2008 This review is written by Mr. Bradberry's students:
dragonforce in human rampage is a mix of bands. if you like fast bands than this is the band for you. dragonforce sounds like they are serious but they are not. I think dragonforce is cool because of their fast playing and guitar playing. Its amazing how fast they can play. also I love the helloleenish keyboard and vocals. their music feels and sounds like its from hell itself like the song revolution deathsquard. this song has a fast beats and a killer solos. we think in human rampage is possibly the greatest metal bands of all time.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
eh....no Sep 27, 2008 this is by far Dragonforce's worst album. It's just beating around the bush; it just showed that Dragonforce used their sound far too much at this point, and it got old and boring. It's definitely not as good as the 2 albums preceding, and NOWHERE near as amazing as Ultra Beatdown. The songs here are commercial, polished, and boring. Anyone who can listen to this album front to back and not get bored, must be on something.
There are two worthwhile tracks (Operation Ground and Pound, Trail of Broken Hearts), but even those two are letdowns compared to their other 3 albums (especially Ultra Beatdown).
so, this album is all too skipable. I recommend getting Ultra Beatdown (by far Dragonforce's finest hour), Valley of the Dead, and Sonic Firestorm, and downloading this if you really want it.
If Journey went power metal Sep 12, 2008 Dragonforce has shown us that they can play fast and consistenly, from fingernumbing soloing to persisting blastbeat drumming, yet an important factor is missing from the recipe: variety. Not to say that the songs all sound the same, just that the tempo never lets up throughout the enitre album. It pounds away at it's listeners relentlessly,never taking a breath. That being said, I feel that Dragonforce are talented musicians, doing well to keep everything together and syncronized throughout its pace. I would like to hear some epic, maybe a few slower, pieces from them in the future. I enjoyed most of this album, even if a few songs sound a little "happier" than I'm particular to.
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based on 124 reviews
My favorite album. Period. Jan 03, 2009
A 56-minute guitar wankfest Dec 02, 2008
