History Music / Dragonforce

* DrinkingGame: Pick one of the following and take a drink every time ZP mentions it in a song: glory, fire, starlight, dawn, tears, fury, or pain. Pick more than one if you're feeling brave.

* RousingSpeech: "Heroes of Our Time": "Power in all of us! Forever more, with us! We are victorious! [[DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight And so aliiiiiiiive!]]"

-->--''Heart of a Dragon''

* AudienceParticipationSong: The chorus of ''Heart of a Dragon'', as quoted above, is a sing-along. Also, ZP usually [[strike:has]] had the crowd sing along to part of ''Through the Fire and Flames''.
* AutoTune: One line in ''Revolution Deathsquad'' uses it as an effect. (At 2:41-2:45 in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEF-qFYDt6M&t=2m41s this video]])
* BreatherEpisode: Each of the group's albums features one PowerBallad as a counterpart to the rest of their music; ''Starfire'', ''Dawn Over a New World'', ''Trail of Broken Hearts'' and ''A Flame For Freedom''.
* CaptainObvious: "Our swords are made of steel" from ''Cry Of The Brave''. Yeah, that's usually what swords are made of...

* CoveredUp: ''Strike of the Ninja'', on the ''Ultra Beatdown'' album, is a cover of a song originally recorded in 2000 by Shadow Warriors, a Theart/Totman gag band (heavy metal ninjas).

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Through the Fire and Flames, anyone?
** "In flames we'll now forever burn eternally" from ''The Flame of Youth''.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: One of their songs is very reminiscent of that level in the very first DawnOfWar where you storm a corrupted temple.

* EpicRocking: Most of their songs clock in at around seven minutes long and are [[OverlyLongGag 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.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNcX4dFvcHs&feature=related Once In A Lifetime]] sounds pretty uplifting, and the chorus is pretty encouraging. The verses, however...

** ''Once In A Lifetime'' also includes the line "Violent fury of firestorming death".
** Also extremely obvious in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA7uEh2jYe4 Black Winter Night]]. While it is slightly less uplifting than many other Dragonforce songs, it is still a fairly happy-sounding song, which heavily conflicts with its lyrics:

* ManlyTears: [=DragonForce=]'s songs use the words 'tears' and 'cry' within their lyrics frequently, but this has more to do with the fantastical, over-the-top and epic settings and situations they sing about than trying to pull {{TearJerker}}s from their audience.
* MemeticMutation: The solo from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i7qZxICwgQ Fury of the Storm]] is part of [[http://takeshikaga.ytmnd.com/ this]] ancient YTMND meme about [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome The Iron Chef eating the]] ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome fuck]]'' [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome out of a bell pepper]].
** DragonForce drinking games, which involve choosing a handful of words (''fire'' and ''sword'' are usually among them) and taking a shot every time you hear them over the course of an album.

* [=~Pachelbel's Canon Progression~=]: The chorus and instrumental parts of ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlkVK0ZVkkw Valley of the Damned]]''.
* PowerBallad: [[OnceAnEpisode One per album]]: ''Trail of Broken Hearts'', ''Starfire'', ''Dawn over a New World'', and ''A Flame for Freedom''

* RousingSpeech: Heroes of our Time. "Power in all of us! Forever more, with us! We are victorious! [[DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight And so aliiiiiiiive!]]"

* ThatOneBoss: ''Through the Fire and Flames'', the BonusBoss of ''GuitarHero 3'', is widely considered to be the most difficult song in [[strike:the series]] ''any '' [[strike: guitar]] '''''rhythm game''''' ''ever''. [[IDontKnowMortalKombat No member of the band has beaten it on "Hard" difficulty.]]
** There's also a [=DLC=] pack consisting of three additional [=DragonForce=] songs (''Operation Ground and Pound'', ''Revolution Deathsquad'', and ''Heroes of Our Time''), which are sure to elicit all manner of [[ClusterFBomb delighted exclamations]] from determined ''GuitarHero'' fans everywhere.

**** Plus the bass track for "Through the Fire and Flames" in "Smash Hits" is actually really easy to get through. The guitarist and the drummer might be having a hard time, but the bassist is pretty set as long as he can double-strum the controller.

* TheXOfY: 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.

* GreenScreen: Lampshaded when ZP Theart drinks a cup of coffee in front of one during ''Operation ground and Pound''

* ThePowerOfRock: And how! The music video for ''Operation: Ground and Pound'' has them fight off an ''alien invasion'' with Power of Rock!

* ClusterFBomb: The new live album ''Twilight Dementia'' has a surprising amount of cursing in between the songs; it's especially surprising since this troper can't recall a single curse word used in any of their actual songs.

* OneOfUs: DragonForce is known for having put in video game sounds into their songs, notably PacMan into Through The Fire And Flames. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYJQ8TzI4t0 Their music video for The Last Journey Home]] is particularly blatant in clearly showing VideoGames tropes just for the hell of it.

* TheXOfY: 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.

* ThePowerOfRock: And how! The music video for ''Operation: Ground and Pound'' has them fight off an ''alien invasion'' with Power of Rock!

-->No more hope
-->As we raise our hands to the sky
-->No more dreams
-->As the rivers run dry...

-->No more tomorrow...
-->Dying of sorrow...

* AutoTune: One line in ''Revolution Deathsquad'' uses it as an effect. (At 2:41-2:45 in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEF-qFYDt6M this video]])

* [=~Truck Driver's Gear Change~=]: Done rather unashamedly in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-bu1cV95e0#t=4m37s Heart of a Dragon]]".

* TheNounOfAdjective: 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.

* MemeticMutation: The solo from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i7qZxICwgQ Fury of the Storm]] is part of [[http://takeshikaga.ytmnd.com/ this]] ancient YTMND meme about [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome The Iron Chef eating th]] ''[[[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome fuck]]'' [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome out of a bell pepper]].

* InternetBackdraft

* AutoTune: One line in ''Revolution Deathsquad'' uses it as an effect. (At 2:41-2:45 in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AxCRho2gc8 this video]])

** Works like a charm on This Troper.

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** Also of interest, parts (''all'' parts, to some) of some songs very similar to others - if you've heard the chorus of Storming the Burning Fields, then Heroes of Our Time's intro will sound very familiar indeed. Also, the intro to My Spirit Will Go On is the same as Once in a Lifetime, only sped up quite a bit.

** How could you forget "Through the fire, through the flames, like the sun will rise again" from the same song??

-->"PAIN! DRAGONS! RAMPAGING! FIRE! MORE DRAGONS! FLYING! SUFFERING! ONE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED DRAGON THAT WAS LEFT BEHIND!"

* {{Discontinuity}}: There is no video for ''The Last Journey Home''.