In the early 2000s you couldn’t get arrested playing power metal in the UK, apart from by the musical fashion police perhaps. DragonForce changed that with their breakthrough third album and its lead single Through The Fire And Flames. Epic, rampant and fiendishly technical - as legions of gamers could testify - it introduced the band to a vast audience through its inclusion on Guitar Hero 3 and subsequent games. Here, guitarist Herman Li explains how a ‘kitchen sink’ (and flushing toilet) approach led to the band’s most iconic and recognisable song… “This was back in early 2005 and we were making our third album. It’s an important album in developing your sound, and we were just throwing everything including the kitchen sink into every single song. We thought, ...
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