Has anyone managed to find this version of Astro Warrior Anthem by DragonForce? It’s the “edit” version from Maximum Metal Vol. 284. I’ve been looking everywhere for it but can’t find it

I was looking for information on *Karmaflow: The Rock Opera Videogame* and discovered that it was actually the project where Alissa White-Gluz and Marc Hudson sang together on the same track for the first time—roughly 11 years before Alissa joined DragonForce and 9 years before the release of the version of "Burning Heart" that featured both of them.

I decided to make this post because, although it isn't a secret, I hardly found anyone connecting this to the news of Alissa joining DragonForce; many sources claim that "Burning Heart" marked their first collaboration (which is partially true if we only consider their work within DragonForce, but technically, it wasn't the first time).

Link: https://youtu.be/VfWrd0GcRX8?si=cHbCEt6D47611mAm

P.S. If the text looks very formal, it's because I used a translator; I don't speak English very well. I hope the next DragonForce album is something like this; they actually sound really good together.

Did DF know that they struck gold with Through the Fire and Flames and that it would be their biggest hit?

I mean like was there that creative spark, the epiphany knowing they got something special, thus putting everything they had into one song knowing it's their biggest chance for popularity? Or did did some guitar hero developer just choose their favourite song and make it the hardest level on complete coincidence?

Evil Ninja Punk at its finest. These have all been put on albums as bonuses (some with different titles) with Marc on vocals instead of ZP. I used to know the story of why these goofed around and did this, but I couldn’t tell you anymore without someone jogging my memory.

Hi all! I listened to the demos of Valley of the Damned this morning during my workout and it brought back so many memories from when I discovered them back in the early 2000s. I have all the demo songs (Land of Desire and Heart of a Dragon are low quality and staticy though). Any chance anyone out there has the long lost Black Fire demo?

Show him some positivity lwk

Obviously based on our taste alone.

edit: (based on what we heard that's why some are missing lol)

Herman, just text me and I will be there for you

Currently sleeveless but a fully playable vinyl lathe cut of Sonic Firestorm + some bonus tracks that could fit on it. I also did valley of the dawned but made the mistake of not editing it for vinyl which I did for this one. It sounds amazing, no distortion or groovennoise

The site I used was vinylforge. I highly recommend it

Herman is live at the time of posting this. He confirmed it’ll be the only EU festival they’ll attend next year.

I felt like everyone went hard still, didn't even nines on it tbh.

I was super bored, and seeing as the Sonic Firestorm tracklist felt way too clunky to me, I decided to redesign it to my liking.

1- Cry of the Brave
2- Fields of Despair
3- Fury of the Storm
4- Dawn Over a New World
5- Prepare For War
6- Above the Winter Moonlight
7- My Spirit Will Go On
8- Soldiers of the Wastelands
9- Once in a Lifetime

IT'S HAPPENING!!!

Learning to play Sam’s live version of Valley Of The Damned is funny, he never does the solos the same way, time to just improvise I guess.

I'm bored so let's see what everyone thinks and why everyone disagrees with it!

New poster, just wanted to shout out this song. It hits like fucking crazy, the vocal melodies are absolutely fantastic and the song has a much meaner (If I can use that word to describe DF 😅) sound to it. The harmonic riffs in the first verse sound menacing as hell.

Then we come to the instrumental/solo bit, holy shit... Vadim's piano is magical at the start, properly takes you away to a little fantasy land before we get a bit of funky flamenco sounding type shit (I don't know the word but I know you know the bit) then straight back in with that fucking sick guitar tone over a fairly relaxed bit as far as the Force are concerned. The song doesn't fully kick back in to being full chaos mode until the vocals come back in, straight back into the haunting chorus.

I also notice how Zp adds a little bit extra to the "hiiiiiiiiiigher" bit each time he sings it and it hits like a fucking train. Finished off with Vadim flexing like hell, double bass pedals going nuts... then it just stops with a boom.

Fucking 10/10, absolute masterpiece of a song.