On August 19 will arrive the new album of the metalheads Dragonforce, which will be titled 'Maximum Overload'and was produced by Jens Bogren at Fascination Studios in Örebro and Varberg, Sweden. It will be the band's first album with the Ear Music label, and the first without it. drummer Dave Mackintosh, who was quickly replaced by Gee Anzalone, also drummer for Braindamage and Kill Ritual. Here we can listen to the single «Defenders»:
The current line-up of the group is: Marc Hudson - (Lead vocals), Herman Li (guitar), Sam Totman - (guitar), Frédéric Leclercq (bass), Vadim Pruzhanov (keyboard) and Gee Anzalone (drums).
Dragonforce is a power metal band formed in 1999 in London, England and made up of musicians from China, England, Scotland, France and Ukraine. They exploit the epic and fantastic side of power metal by adding a much faster beat, mixed with video game sounds and other elements unusual in western bands. The 2004 album 'Sonic Firestorm' turned out to be a success thanks to the first single 'Fury of the Storm' and 'My Spirit Will Go O'.
'Sonic Firestorm' was DragonForce's first album with Adrian Lambert on bass and Dave Mackintosh on drums. When Mackintosh joined the band in 2004, members of the group began to refer to their style of music as "extreme power metal" due to its lightning-fast blast beat and double bass drum (or "double bass drum" in Spanish). Around this time the band became popular internationally and has adopted nicknames such as "Bon Jovi at Full Speed" and "Where Journey Meets Slayer." The band toured with many well-known metal bands such as WASP, Disturbed, and Iron Maiden.