i hated them, but i saw them live and i'd be lying if i said they suck.
sure they ain't as good as Helloween (pre deris, I'm a kiske and Kai fanboy!) or Stratavarious or most other 'true' power metal bands, but they're fine live...
you need to remember, 90% of people bad mouthing them heard of them off guitar hero, and only know that one fucking song... and probably badmouth them because either the song was too hard or someone told them they speed up the music ( i lol hard at people who think the keyboard player is playing a guitar as well...)
9% of people who hate them are fans of emo, nu metal, metal core, shit core etc (i dunno what they're all called)
only 1% of people who hate them actually can point out the reason they dislike them is because they use repetitive power chords and simple blues scales, which they seem to play fast in the hopes that no one will notice that's what they're doing.
it's fine to dislike a band, but don't be such a tit to acually look up bands you don't like on youtube just to say 'LOL DIS BAND IS SHIT SLIPKNOT 4 LYF HURR DURR' and stuff to that effect.
oh yeah and guitar hero is shit, i bought GH3 then gave it to a friend shorty after... what garbage, why waste hundreds of hours playing it when you could learn to play actual guitar in less time than that? i mean really, i don't see how it's addictive or fun, but w/e floats your boat, i pretty much just play fps player so i wouldn't know much about games like GH or rock band...
1 more thing: lets not forget, Dragonforce are a speed/power metal band, they are meant to have lyrics about dragons and castles and shit... and the music IS meant to be very fast, although they do speed up their solos in the albums. And yes they can play their stuff live, very well infact, it sounds much better, my only complaint is the vocalist (ZP) uses many effects on his voice live, which seems kinda pointless tbh lol.
so ya no complaints from me as long as a load of Dragonforce clones do not appear... i think they're fine in their own way, far from my favourite band, but still alright... and since everyone around here loves power metal so much, thoughts on Polaris? I thought it was better than the recent Strat albums, but nothing compared to the 90's albums like Visions
EDIT: and no i am not a power metal fanboy! i obviously enjoy helloween and such (KOTSK) but i only dabble in that sort of thing, death metals where it's at, hence i have Chuck as my avatar...
