Album Review: DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage (2006) A-

Sounds like: Yngwie Malmsteen, Hammerfall, Journey

How can I describe DragonForce? Well, take a normal 'power' metal band (you know the kind that solo like crazy and sing Dungeons & Dragons-esque lyrics), add 80s guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen's mind (and finger) bending solos, and top it off with a Steve Perry soundalike on vocals. Then accelerate the tempo to ridiculous speed, no ludicrous speed. That's DragonForce...and it's a lot of fun.

If you can handle some cheesiness. If you don't need everything to angry and pissed off all the time. If you can both laugh at and be awed by awesomely wank shredder guitar solos. Then this album is for you.

Most of the songs are long, six, seven minute epics of speed riffs, double bass, impossbily fast solos, and 80s style vocals. The musicianship is top notch, the music itself is ridiculous. But that's really it's charm. DragonForce doesn't take itself seriously and neither should you.