In the last segment of our three-part interview with DragonForce singer ZP Theart and bassist Frederic Leclercq, the musicians admit that the video game "Guitar Hero 3," which features their song "Through the Fire and Flames," has done more for their career than being shot nine times did for rapper 50 Cent.
The DragonForce dudes also discuss how they've avoided feeling the pressure of their success, what they hate about recording albums, fighting in the studio, their new single "Heroes of Our Time," and their inclusion in the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival. Click "more" to see it all: Read more...
The name of DragonForce's new album, Ultra Beatdown (out August 26), reminds us of the old "ultraviolence" from Stanley Kubrick's classic film "A Clockwork Orange." Actually, half the time we type the name of the record, we write it as Ultra Violence. And when we do that, something goes off in our head that triggers the Overkill song "Electro-Violence" from their 1987 album Taking Over, from back when they still had guitarist Bobby Gustafson and before they started to sound -- well, not quite as cool.
But we're here to talk about DragonForce -- or rather, DragonForce singer ZP Theart and bassist Frederic Leclercq are here to talk about themselves. Click "more" to see Pt. 2 of our exclusive interview with the band and hear the members discuss Leclercq's contributions to the record, their writing process, liberating lyrics and, well, more. Read more...
Currently, DragonForce are battling to win over Slipknot and Disturbed fans on this year's Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival, but pretty soon the band's mettle will really be put to the test. On August 26 DragonForce's fourth album, Ultra Beatdown, will be released and the speed metal race will be on to see if the band members can maintain the breakneck pace of success of Inhuman Rampage and its "Guitar Hero 3" hit "Through the Fire and the Flames." So far, the group seem to be on course. The first single on Ultra Beatdown, "Heroes of our Time" is amping up the band's fans and raising the blood pressure of their detractors and the song's video -- which receives its "Headbangers Ball" debut on Saturday night on MTV2 -- has received more accolades than Pamela Anderson's last boob job (well, maybe that's stretching things a bit, but it's pretty rad).
We recently sat singer ZP Theart and bassist Frederic Leclercq in front of the camera and listened to them rattle on about the new album, their worst beatdowns and the differences between Beatdown and Rampage. Click "more" to see part one of three: Read more...
