Well looking at the amazing album art and diving into the first song “Highway to Oblivion,” we are sent back to the 1980s. How does their eighth album, appropriately named Extreme Power Metal, hold up to the rest of their discography? For a band that many metalheads complain about for having written the same song for their entire career, Dragonforce has become one of the more diverse power metal bands that emerged in the 2000s. Mostly known for their 2006 breakthrough “Through the Fire and the Flames,” Dragonforce has had an interesting career that saw them find their niche of power metal (Valley of the Damned and Sonic Firestorm) turn into a Mach 5 power metal band (Inhumane Rampage and Ultra Beatdown), reinvigorate themselves with a new singer and returning to their roots of the first two albums, (The Power Within), and finally experimenting with thrash metal and writing nothing but mostly mid-tempo metal songs (Maximum Overload and Reaching Into Infinity). Somehow it has been twenty years since Herman Li and Sam Totman formed the band that became Dragonforce. Review Summary: Plodding along one 80's influenced song at a time
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