Williams later went on form the power metal band Power Quest. Shortly after the demo was released, Steve Williams and Steve Scott left and they were replaced by Vadim Pruzhanov and Diccon Harper. The song was a huge success on MP3.com where it charted at #1 for two whole weeks as the most downloaded song. A promotional video featuring live footage from the band's tour around Europe was released along with the song. Their song " Valley of the Damned" was released as their first single shortly after they permanently changed their name to DragonForce in December 2001. A guest drummer Peter Hunt recorded after Satanc left. The original demo version is also extremely rare. Where Dragons Rule was included as a bonus track in the Japanese version of the demo album, but it was a remastered version of the original. Even though the demo didn't include the songs Black Fire and Heart of a Dragon, the original versions of the two songs exist but are extremely rare due to being unreleased, along with the original version of " Evening Star" (which the original version was called " Lands of Desire"). It was an autonomous release, however it was enough to make them one of the most popular independent power metal bands in the UK at the time. Valley of the Damned (2000-2003) Main article: Valley of the Damned (album)ĭragonHeart (what the band was known as at the time) recorded their very first album in 2000 (as a demo). Harper performed on the band's debut album, Valley of the Damned in its completion, but left in 2002 due to a tendon problem that required surgery. The ex-Demoniac bassist Diccon Harper joined DragonForce in November 2000 with keyboardist Vadim Pruzhanov joining in February 2001 to complete the lineup for recording their first album. Steve Scott would later join Shadowkeep, then Power Quest (along with Steve Williams. Steve later rejoined and left once again in December 2000, days head of DragonForce's tour with "Halford" and "Stratovarius". DragonForce then parted ways with Steve Scott in November 2000 and Steve Williams in early 2000. ĭrummer Matej Satanc (just like Li and Totman, was also a former member of Demoniac) left Dragonforce in December 1999 in order to continue his studies in Slovenia. The other band's was "Dragon heart) already existed and changed their named to DragonForce in 2002. However, the band later found that another power metal band with the same name (although both spellings were different, DragonForce's was "Dragon Heart". Apparently, for the demo, the band managed to put Peter Hunt as drums (guest) for the demo instead of Satanc. Initially the band intended to call themselves DragonHeart, released a demo, toured with Halford and Stratovarius and headline their own show under that name. Sam and Herman were originally in the Black and power metal band, Demoniac, along with Lindsay Dawson, respectively. Herman and Sam later found singer ZP Theart through an advert, and not long afterwards, gained Demoniac's drummer, Matej Satanc, as well as the bassist Steve Scott, and the keyboardist, Steve Williams. 1.8 Reaching into Infinity (2016–present)ĭragonForce was formed in 1999 by the Herman Li and Sam Totman after they had left Demoniac.1.7 The Power Within and Maximum Overload (2011–2015).1.6 Twilight Dementia and departure of Theart (2010).Leclercq performes the vocals alongside Sam Totman on The Power Within. On this album the vocals were originally performed by Lindsay Dawson of Demoniac and are performed live by Frédéric Leclercq. This is one of two DragonForce albums to feature harsh vocals, the other being The Power Within. The album has gone Silver in the UK, has sold over 350,000 units in the US and more than half a million worldwide.
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In America, the album reached number 1 in the Billboards Heatseekers chart it also reached #103 on the Billboard 200 chart and its first single "Through the Fire and Flames" has received rock radio and Fuse TV airplay, as well as a place as playable track on the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. Inhuman Rampage is the third studio album by English power metal band DragonForce, released on 9 January 2006 and 20 June 2006 in North America.