History Music / Dragonforce

* ClusterFBomb: The new live album ''Twilight Dementia'' has a surprising amount of cursing in between the songs; it's especially surprising since their actual songs never use any language harsher than "damn", "hell", and "whore".

** ...and finally [=DragonForce's=] Version of "Wildest Dreams" by Musis/TaylorSwift. Well, they are also indeed Swifties, too.

* CoverVersion: Of, wait for it... "Ring Of Fire" by Music/JohnnyCash. Sounds exactly how you'd expect it to. Also... "My Heart Will Go On" by Music/CelineDion. Talk about a ''[[{{Film/Titanic1997}} Titanic]]'' tribute.

[[caption-width-right:300: [[NintendoHard The hardest]] [[MemeticMutation metal known to man.]]]]
->''Proud and so glorious''
->''Standing before of us''
->''Our swords will shine bright in the sky''
->''When united we come''
->''To the land of the sun''
->''With the heart of a dragon we ride''
-->--"Heart of a Dragon"

** ''Extreme Power Metal'' includes songs inspired by ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsV Skyrim]]'' ("The Last Dragonborn") and ''[[Literature/StarshipTroopers Starship]]'' ''[[Film/StarshipTroopers Troopers]]'' ("Troopers of the Stars").

** ''Valley of the Damned'' (demo, as Dragonheart) (2000)
** ''Valley of the Damned'' (studio version, as Dragonforce) (2003)

** "Valley of the Damned" (demo, as Dragonheart) (2000)
** "Valley of the Damned" (studio version, as Dragonforce) (2003)

* ''Valley of the Damned'' (2000/2003)

In March 2010, the group [[CreativeDifferences parted ways]] with singer [=ZP=] Theart. The group announced an open audition via Website/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. In 2023, Marc Hudson released ''Starbound Stories', his first solo album that also features Frederic Leclecrq on bass.

In March 2010, the group [[CreativeDifferences parted ways]] with singer [=ZP=] Theart. The group announced an open audition via Website/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.

** Also beginning with ''Maxium Overload'', there's a song that's directly about a video game. "Symphony of the Night" and "Curse of Darkness" are about ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'', two songs about ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft}}'' "Wings of Liberty" and "Heart of the Storm", "The Last Dragonborn" is about ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', and "Power of the Triforce" is about ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''.

* MarathonLevel: While most of their songs sit comfortably past five minutes, ''The Edge of the World'' off ''Reaching Into Infinity'' sets a record by clocking in at just over ''eleven minutes''.

* PowerBallad: [[OnceAnEpisode One per album]] - "Trail of Broken Hearts", "Starfire", "Dawn over a New World", "A Flame for Freedom", "Silence", and "Remembrance Day". Subverted on ''The Power Within'', wherein it doesn't have a full power ballad, but instead the first portions of "Wings of Liberty" and "Last Man Stands" are power ballads. Maximum Overload has the Power Ballad "You're Not Alone" as a bonus track.

** Also beginning with ''Maxium Overload'', there's a song that's directly about a video game. "Symphony of the Night" and "Curse of Darkness" are about ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'', "The Last Dragonborn" is about ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', and "Power of the Triforce" is about ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''.

* SelfPlagiarism: A ''lot'' of their songs sound alike, to the point that some people claim they only have ''one'' song.