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{{quote|"PAIN! DRAGONS! RAMPAGING! FIRE! MORE DRAGONS! FLYING! SUFFERING! [[The Runt At the End|ONE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED DRAGON THAT WAS LEFT BEHIND!]]"|Rexisfed, on a ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' forum}}
''DragonForce'' ([[We Will Use Wiki Words in The Future|sic]]) are a British band famed for their epic fantasy lyrics and energetic, over-the-top style of extreme power metal. On the other hand, they're also quite widely hated for having songs with similar structure and writing, [[No True Scotsman|and being perceived by some as stereotyping PowerMetal as nothing more than super fast guitars, double bass drums and high pitched vocals about dragons]], as well as various false accusations that they digitally speed up their playing and the occasional [[
In March 2010, the group [[Creative Differences|parted ways]] with singer ZP Theart. The group announced an open audition via [[YouTube]] for his replacement, and after screening thousands of applicants, selected in March 2011 native Englishman Marc Hudson as his replacement. The group's first album with Hudson was released in early 2012.
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* [[Captain Obvious]]: "Our swords are made of steel" from "Cry Of The Brave". Yeah, that's usually what swords are made of...
* [[Cluster Bleep Bomb]]: During one of the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xS-DfETmykA#t=347s Making of The Power Within]" videos, Frederic delivers a profanity-laden rant in French after repeatedly failing at one particular section of a song.
* [[Cluster F
* [[Creative Differences]]: The band stated that ZP leaving "is due to insurmountable differences of musical opinion".
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: "Through the Fire and Flames", anyone?
** "In flames we'll now forever burn eternally" from "The Flame of Youth".
* [[Determinator]]: Almost every one of their songs is such from the POV of such a character.
* [[
* [[Epic Rocking]]: Most of their songs clock in at around seven minutes long and are half guitar solo. The above-mentioned "Strike of the Ninja" is noteworthy for being the group's first recorded song to run ''less'' than five minutes.
** And "Strike of the Ninja" isn't even a DragonForce song. It's originally from Sam's joke band side project, Shadow Warriors.
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* [[Rule of Cool]]: Quite possibly the driving force behind the entire band. Why the extravagantly long guitar solos? Why is every song about warriors charging into glorious battles at the end of the world? [[Refuge in Audacity|Why]] [[Serial Escalation|not?]]
* [[Sampling]]: The theme to ''[[Double Dragon]]'' is played during the guitar solo in "Black Fire".
* [[Self
** Also, the intro to "Fields of Despair" is actually the Winning Run theme from Super Hang-On.
* [[Short Run in Peru]]: The group's albums are typically released in Japan a full week before the rest of the world gets them.
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* [[Three Chords and The Truth]] - completely averted.
* [[Troperiffic]]
* [[Truck
* [[Wham Episode]]: It might fly over the heads of anyone not looking for deep messages in a [[Power Metal]] song (i.e. most normal people) , but when you look at the lyrics of ''Scars of Yesterday'', it's pretty clearly about rape.
** That's not all. ''Heartbreak Armageddon'' is about a man spiraling into depression after being divorced, and ''Reasons to Live'' is about a counselor failing to prevent suicide. Wow.
*** All of these songs are from ''Ultra Beatdown'', making it something of a [[Wham Episode|Wham Album]]
** And from ''The Power Within'', "Give Me the Night" is about drug addiction and "Seasons" is a fairly dark [[Break Up Song]] ([[Earn Your Happy Ending|it has a hopeful ending, though]]).
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[The X of Y]]: Used in some of their song titles: "Fury of the Storm", "Soldiers of the Wasteland", "Valley of the Damned", "The Flame of Youth", "Trail of Broken Hearts", "Scars of Yesterday", etc.
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== Tropes used in their music videos: ==
* [[BFG]]: The [[Artificial Human|lady cyborg]] with [[Absolute Cleavage]] on the cover of ''Ultra Beatdown'' is holding one.
* [[Deep
* [[Desolation Shot]]
* [[Dramatic Wind]]
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