riff-laden collection of infectious guitar anthems that is ‘Ultra Beatdown’ 2006’s ‘Inhuman Rampage’ left them with a hard act to follow; the album has sold over 80,000 copies in the UK alone and went gold in the US (now with over 300,000 sales) as well as entering at #1on the US Billboard Heatseekers Chart as well as featuring the world wide hit ‘Through The Fire and Flames’ which exploded beyond the metal world thanks to its appearance as the ‘hardest setting’ on he hugely popular ‘Guitar Hero 3’ game. The band have been championed by the likes of the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show, BBC 6Music’s Bruce Dickinson, XFM, Kerrang TV & Radio, MTV2 Headbangers Ball, Scuzz TV…etc. and fans are eagerly awaiting not only a new album from DragonForce but are hungry to see them in the flesh again following the hugely successful ‘Black Crusade’ tour of last Winter.

The band have improved and honed every aspect of their playing and songwriting for this album, which is displayed perfectly on lead single ‘Heroes Of Our Time’. DragonForce will spend the summer in the US, sharing the main stage of the inaugural Rockstar Energy Mayhem tour with label mates/ headliners Slipknot, as well as Machine Head, Mastodon and Airbourne, to name just a few. The band will return to the home shores of the UK this autumn with a string of headline dates:

Fri 26th Sep – Manchester Academy
Sat 27th Sep – Birmingham Academy
Sun 28th Sep – Southampton Guildhall
Tue 30th Sep – Cardiff University
Wed 1st Oct – Nottingham Rock City
Fri 3rd Oct – London Astoria
Sun 5th Oct – Norwich UEA
Tue 7th Oct – Leeds University
Wed 8th Oct – Newcastle Academy
Fri 10th Oct – Glasgow Academy
Sat 11th Oct – Belfast Mandela Hall
Sun 12th Oct – Dublin Ambassador Theatre
Mon 13th Oct – Cork Savoy

You can hear Dragonforce on the Metalbox Webcast HERE