After bringing their fiery fretwork to Donington Park last weekend for a capacity Download Festival performance, the band are set to play almost a month of shows in November & December, dubbed the Hearts & Minds Tour 2009, with the run being co-promoted by Metal Hammer magazine. Their current album, ‘Ultra Beatdown’ gatecrashed the Top 20 in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Far East and hit the Top 10 in Japan on its release, marking them out as a truly successful British band on the international stage. This Monday just gone also saw Dragonforce’s twin guitar wizards, Herman Li and Sam Totman pick up The Dimebag Darryl Shredder gong at Metal Hammer’s Golden Gods annual awards ceremony.

In more immediate news, the ‘Force also play a one-off London show on 29th July at the Kentish Town HMV Forum as part of the Kerrang! Awards week of shows. Support comes from Brit rockers Stone Gods and Glamour Of The Kill. Tickets go on sale from 9am tomorrow, Friday June 19th from Aloud.com / 0844 848 8888 or Buy Music CDs, DVDs, Games, Consoles, Blu Ray, MP3s & More - hmv.com - Free Delivery, and are priced at £20 adv.

"We really wanna give fans a special show, as it's been a while since we played in London," says DragonForce guitarist Herman Li. "I think we're going to mix our set up, maybe some bonus tracks that we wouldn't usually play live and do something interesting for our fans. We also really like playing diverse bills. We love variety.

Full ‘Force dates line up as follows;



Wed 29th Jul – London Kentish Town Forum



Thu 19th Nov – Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall

Fri 20th Nov – Reading Hexagon

Sat 21st Nov – Southend Cliffs Pavilion

Mon 23rd Nov – Southampton Guildhall

Tue 24th Nov – Truro Hall For Cornwall

Wed 25th Nov – Bristol University

Thu 26th Nov – Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall

Sat 28th Nov – Preston 53 Degrees

Sun 29th Nov – Bradford St Georges Hall

Mon 30th Nov – Sheffield Academy



Tue 1st Dec – Hanley Victoria Hall

Thu 3rd Dec – Glasgow Barrowlands

Fri 4th Dec – Dundee Fat Sam’s

Sat 5th Dec – Inverness Ironworks

Mon 7th Dec – Middlesbrough Empire

Tue 8th Dec – Cambridge Corn Exchange

Thu 10th Dec – Lincoln Engine Shed

Fri 11th Dec – Manchester Academy

Sat 12th Dec – Liverpool Academy



Tickets are on sale now, priced £16 and are available from box offices and all usual agents. You can buy online at Metal Hammer - Tickets.



Dragonforce are currently out on the European summer festival circuit. Come September they head back Stateside for more US dates, before moving on to Canada.