It was shortly after this time that DragonForce played at Ozzfest. DragonForce began touring for their third album (though technically their fourth, due to the release of their 2000 demo album), "Inhuman Rampage" shortly after the Sonic Firestorm tour and several months before Inhuman Rampage was even released. DragonForce toured with several well-known metal bands such as "W.A.S.P" and "Iron Maiden". The tour was much longer than DragonForce's recent tour for "Valley of the Damned" and featured many more headline shows than the previous. It was around this time that the band began becoming popular internationally and adopted nicknames such as "Bon Jovi on speed" and "Journey meets Slayer." When Mackintosh entered the band in 2004, they began referring to their style of music as "extreme power metal" due to his fast blastbeats and double bass rhythms. The album was the band's first album featuring Adrian Lambert on bass and Dave Mackintosh on drums. Sonic Firestorm (2004-2005) Main article: Sonic FirestormĭragonForce's follow-up album, Sonic Firestorm, proved to be even more successful with the lead single " Fury of the Storm". Since this concert, the band has returned to the same venue every tour. The entire show was pro-shot to be released on a DVD, however it has not yet been released. The Japan performance was the largest amount of people that the band had played for yet.
The band's tour for Valley of the Damned lasted until 2004, with a performance in Japan. The title track, re-released in promotion of the album, it is one of the most known DragonForce songs to date and it is a staple of their live performance to this day. In 2003, DragonForce signed to Noise Records and begun recording their second released album and first full-length album, Valley of the Damned (album).
Williams later went on form the power metal band Power Quest. Shortly after the demo was released, Steve Williams and Steve Scott left and replaced by Vadim Pruzhanov and Diccon Harper. The song ws a huge success on MP3.com where it charted at #1 for 2 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. 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. 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. Initially the band intended to call themselves DragonHeart, but later found that another power metal band with the same exact name already existed, although the band band released their first album under the name DragonHeart in their Valley of the Damed demo album but in the final verson the cover read Dragon Force rather than Dragon Heart.
Li and Totman were origianlly in the Black and power metal band, Demoniac, along with Lindsay Dawson, who later appears as a guest hasrsh backing vocalist in the band's album, Inhuman Rampage. The band was formed in 1999, by ZP Theart, Steve Scott, Sam Totman, Herman Li, Didier Almouzni, and Steve Williams. 2 Reaching into Infinity (2017–present).1.7 The Power Within, Maximum Overload and Killer Elite (2011–2016).
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