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Then you're in for another new experience with the 11-minute epic "The Edge of the World". Obviously more textured and driven by contemporary chord structures, DRAGONFORCE defies its own propensities with a buttery love ditty. More abruptly than you can say "Home Sweet Home", DRAGONFORCE drops an eighties-puckered ballad, "Silence". It's not just the sagacious rock jam dropped into the flurrying "Astral Empire" and the tranquilizing placidity forced into "Curse of Darkness" that gives this album an edge of delineation. Thus, you have a core summary of "Reaching Into Eternity", like all of DRAGONFORCE's albums, this one is concentrated on proving how fast metal can pushed. Guitarists Herman Li and Sam Totman remain Herculean with Marc Hudson leading the vocal charge like the four winds are at his command. Of course, "Judgment Day" whisks even faster with keyboard blizzards vying to outclass even Thanasis Lightbridge, one of the apparatus's lower-profile yet super-skilled masters. Trumpets and keyboards herald DRAGONFORCE's conquering speed, and though the whole scheme is nothing you haven't heard before, the refinement speaks louder than the technical proficiency-the band's prowess still being tremendous as ever. If there's any real difference to DRAGONFORCE's outrageous alacrity these days, it's more sanitization of their storming overcapacities. Instead of rushing out, all guns blazing, like the group is expected to, this careful plotting makes the listener wait for what they automatically know is coming: the rocketing fireworks on "Ashes of the Dawn". The instrumental title track sedately opens the album, giving DRAGONFORCE the opportunity to explore a more verdant realization to its epic-minded compositions. "Reaching into Eternity" is still the most insane thrash prog you'd ever want, but this time, there's more to chew on. For DRAGONFORCE fans, this isn't so much a warning as it is assurance. It's great to challenge ourselves instead of staying in a comfort zone". I think we have proven that playing fast was something we were good at, so this time I wanted to bring even more diversity into our music. lost my temper a few times – I think we all did at some point, because we wanted to deliver nothing but the best. Not that DRAGONFORCE isn't capable of slowing down it's just that when the musicians are all but held accountable to keep up appearances as maestros of velocity, dropping back to 30 mph is a risky venture.īassist Frédéric Leclercq, who wrote the majority of DRAGONFORCE's new album, "Reaching into Eternity", has publicly offered this bit of insight into the band's creative process: "It was very intense and very tiring. The decision-making process on whether to continue dropping albums slung at two hundred miles an hour each must be as nerve-racking as coming up with extravagant guitar solos not yet heard by the metal public. Now on its seventh album, DRAGONFORCE has a lot to live up to: namely its members' rep as meta-human musicians.