DragonForce is a band that describes its music as “extreme power metal”.
This is also how the predominantly British group – it also includes an American and an Italian – named its album released in 2019. To caricature, and paraphrase a label long attached to the Ramones, DragonForce plays two types of songs: fast, and extremely fast... Necessarily reductive, of course, we sometimes find ballads or mid-tempos in the repertoire, even if the musicians claim superhuman instrumental velocity.
The problem is that on disc, the recipe begins to turn stale and the latest one, “Warp Speed Warriors”, available for a few days, is in line with its predecessors, neither worse nor better.
On the other hand, on stage, it is proven that the Dragon breathes fire, and not just a little, as we saw Wednesday evening at the Bataclan in Paris.
The combo concluded an evening that began with Infected Rain, then Amaranthe, which we did not see, arriving just in time to note that the second group received a triumphant welcome at the end of their performance.
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