![]() I find that a bit…I mean, when it started off, Facebook and all of that, I'm sick of people posting about their dinner and really boring stuff. Herman: "I was never into the whole social media thing. On embracing Twitch, the popular live streaming video game platform: ![]() Not every single song on there has a crazy title, but some songs have to have kind of a title that we used to do, 'Revolution Deathsquad', 'Heartbreak Armageddon', or 'Operation Ground And Pound', some kind of silly, over-the-top titles. The reason that title came, not because of only the song, because we didn't want some boring song title that's been used a million times. Herman: "It's a joke, a fun thing to say. On whether the new song "Cosmic Power Of The Infinite Shred Machine" is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the band's reputation as guitar shredders: Really, this is a 'fun' DRAGONFORCE album, unlike the last album which was kind of a darker, more serious album." Even movies, like 'Starship Troopers', one of the songs is written about 'Starship Troopers' the movie. There's no one there to stop us and say, 'You can't do it.' We have songs, obviously, with video game sounds and weird guitar playing that sounds like a video game like 'Mario ', we also wrote a song called 'The Last Dragonborn' that's about 'Skyrim', 'The Elder Scrolls' series. What do we like? We like this kind of stuff. It was just a natural thing we just wanted to do what we liked, that's it. Herman: "We've always had video game references in our songs and music since the first album from stuff like the 'The Last Ninja', all the way to newer stuff. On the 1980s video game theme that is featured on the new album's cover: It's kind of a fun title, a bit over the top, but it goes with the theme of the new album, the artwork and everything like that." Herman: "We actually called our music 'extreme power metal' back in 2004 when we had the sticker that said 'extreme power metal' on it. On the decision to name DRAGONFORCE's new studio album "Extreme Power Metal": A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life recently conducted an interview with guitarist Herman Li of power metallers DRAGONFORCE. ![]()
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