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Why is that people don't like Dragonforce?



I'm a big DragonForce fan. Huge in fact. I've seen them live twice and met them personally on both occasions so my opinion will be a little biased but none-the-less I will try to explain why I think they're awesome live and in the studio with as much fact and little opinion as possible.



Point 1 DragonForce sucks live?



I'm arguing for their current playing so I can't argue with you on how they played several years ago. But when I saw them I really focused on herman and sam's playing to see if they could do live what they could on the album. The songs definitely sounded different than they did on the album. Most of them are played a half a step down or two from what they're played on the album. Also live shows have a hell of a lot more bass making the guitar sounds a lot more mellow. This has absolutely nothing to do with skill. This is not a failure to recreate what's on the album. It's a fact of life. It sounds different live. Playing with tuned down guitars is not a %26quot;mistake.%26quot; It's a choice. So I started focusing on the actual notes Herman and Sam were playing and they never really missed any... at all. At either performance. The only slipup i noticed was when Sam was being a douche and tried to reach over and hit herman in the back of the head causing him to miss about 5 or 6 seconds of the through the fire and flames solo but other than that they pretty much nailed every note (and I have a damn good ear take my word for it). The solos are mellower and less defined but this is not because of mistakes. This is because you're getting sound directly from a bunch of huge *** amplifiers and speakers all at once as opposed to hearing studio recordings that have been perfected over a long period of time. This dampening effect is less distinguishable with other bands simply because most of them play simpler music. Green Day's power chords will still sound pretty much like power chords when played live. Also many people claim the singer is out of key when... he's simply not. Yes you can find videos of ZP Theart (the singer) struggling at the end of a long concert when he's been singing for hours and he's losing his voice but... to say he sings out of key is simply wrong. Many people also claim that the drummer just bangs on the snare the whole time. However the drum beats that Dave achieves are actually pretty damn complicated and if you slow down the audio you can see this. For example the drum beat of through the fire and flames is very similar to that heard at the beginning of Kryptonite by three doors down (only twice as fast). Also the accusation that they speed up their solos in the studio is also simply wrong. There are videos of them recording up to speed in the studio and they are doing just fine. Trust me guys it's not that hard. They can play 15 seconds of a solo over and over and over again until they get it right. Even a sucky guitarist wouldn't have to speed them up. So after seeing them live twice I fail to see any point on which they suck live at all. They were incredible in fact. Stage effects, stage presence, all of it.



Point 2 Do all their songs sound the same?



Not really. You're probably thinking this is an opinion but again... not really. It depends on what aspects of music please you. For example. A friend of mine dislikes DragonForce very much. All the songs sound the same to him but he listens to music mostly for lyrics. Lyrics change little from song to song. they're all about flying free and fire and flames pretty much. Fair enough. The songs will sound the same to a person who listens to music for lyrics. The songs will also sound the same to someone who listens to music for variety in song structure and tempo (until Ultra Beatdown, they toned a lot of it down on that album). This person will think that all DragonForce songs sound the same. However then there is a person like me whose musical taste is about 75 percent influenced by melody. This is where fact comes in and opinion is thrown out. Take the two songs Through the Fire and Flames and Operation Ground and Pound for example. These two songs are often criticized for having nearly the exact same chorus. Lyrically there's some similarities (%26quot;so far away, and far away%26quot;) but the melodies are different. The chorus of Through the Fire and Flames is a minor key and Operation Ground and Pound's chorus is in a major key. To someone who listens to music for the melody this is a night and day difference. A major key produces a feeling of happiness and a minor key produces a feeling of fear, regret, sadness etc... My point is that DragonForce songs gain their unity by the different combination of key changes, minor, major and blues combinations that someone who listens to music for lyrics or rithym simply will not pick up on. When I watch DragonForce videos on youtube where people have combined various DragonForce songs in such a way that they think they have exploited DragonForce'sEPIC FAIL?
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No offense, but in my opinion Dragonforce is just pointless shredding that makes no sense. I have tried to piece it together, but they just really suck. They are purely a studio band, and they're no better than Brittany spears' music. Sure they can pick fast, that doesn't make them good. They don't really wow me is all I'm saying. If you want some good shredding listen to somebody like Buckethead. Not to say that he's best but, I can appreciate his stuff a hell of a lot more than Dragonforce. But like I said... That's my opinion