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  • Awesome Music:
    • "The Edge of the World". Starts with melancholy tones and lyrics, then cranks it up with more of the slower kind of heroic vigor than how Dragon Force usually plays their big climactic songs, like a wounded hero refusing to be driven into the ground. Then it dives into the most nightmarish part of the song, with harsh voices and lyrics, damning humanity and speaking of doom. Then the solo shifts the song's gears once more, turning it back to the heroic tone from earlier in the song, the sound more determined than ever just before the chorus comes back. Then, rather somberly, victory is declared, exhausted, wounded, but achieved. The band ditched its usual over-the-top speed for a slower burn and still managed to be invigorating in a way no other of their songs have been.
    • For a song that doesn't ditch the over-the-top speed and is still also awesome, look no further than "EPM" from Ultra Beatdown. It's starts with an 8-bit rift of the song, and then explodes onto your ears. It doesn't do much innovative as far as style goes, but it is easily one of the exemplars, from its voicework, solo and overall sound. It is also a bonus track on the Japanese release, and, by extension, ZP's last listed song with the band. And it's is a fitting swansong not just for the singer, but for the style that the band would rein in more for every album since.
    • "Last Journey Home", "Cry Thunder", "Three Hammers" and "The Last Dragonborn" stand out, taking more of a slower, more march-like tempo (like Kamelot's March of Mephisto), while still keeping an upbeat tone. These are less Mid-Dyanasty-Warriors-Fight and more the preparation montage before the big fight.
  • Base-Breaking Character:
    • Marc replacing ZP, despite the fact that his voice isn't actually bad at all on its own merits.
    • Frederic Leclercq. The Ace who helped expand and mature their sound and broke them out of the meme band trap that they otherwise would have been stuck in, or a talented musician who was nonetheless a bad fit for the band and made them into something that they weren't suited to be?
  • Covered Up: "Strike of the Ninja", on Ultra Beatdown, is a cover of a song originally recorded in 2000 by Shadow Warriors, a Theart/Totman gag band (heavy metal ninjas).
  • Drinking Game: Pick one of the following and take a drink every time it appears in a song: glory, fire, starlight, dawn, tears, fury, evil, pain or forever (more). Pick more than one if you're feeling brave.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Like many Power Metal bands, DragonForce is big in Japan.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Sometime after Inhuman Rampage was released, somebody made a video for DragonForce's Greatest Hits album as a joke. Come 2016, a real Greatest Hits album was made, named Killer Elite.
  • It's Popular, Now It Sucks!:
    • The band's first three albums received generally positive reviews from the power metal community, and the band was believed to have a bright future. Then, Guitar Hero III was released and Dragonforce was given a huge spotlight that boosted both the band and the game's sales. The eventual overexposition burned out many people.
    • If you only know TTFAF, or found them through Guitar Hero, do not mention that to a long-time fan.
  • Narm Charm: Many of their songs are so over the top that they wrap around to being awesome.
    Far way in the wastelands of hell full of torment and pain
    Demon knights riding over the heights where fallen are slain
    Violent fury of firestorming death now no life will prevail
    Now you live all your days in the fires of hell
  • Nightmare Fuel: In the song "The Edge of The World", after several minutes of standard Dragonforce music, with absolutely no warning the singer starts using vocals so harsh their basically Melodic Death Metal. Even the music becomes darker and more brutal than anything else Dragonforce has done.
    Denied a chance for life
    I take back that what is mine
  • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Their post-Inhuman Rampage albums, Ultra Beatdown, The Power Within, Maximum Overload and Reaching into Infinity got them at least partially back in the good graces of the metal community, thanks to slight changes in their style; changing some of their lyrical themes, diversifying their songs, and even slowing down. They've also been proven to be a really good live band.
  • Self-Plagiarism: A lot of their early songs seem to sound alike, to the point that some people claim they only have one song.
  • Signature Song: "Through the Fire and Flames", thanks to its That One Boss status in Guitar Hero.
  • Song Association: Again, "Through the Fire and Flames" is heavily asssociated as a difficult song in Guitar Hero. Later on, it's also becoming associated with other rhythm games that can have custom tracks.
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  • That One Boss:
    • "Through the Fire and Flames", the Superboss of Guitar Hero III, is widely considered to be the most difficult song in the series. 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 delighted exclamations from determined Guitar Hero fans everywhere.
    • Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock has "Fury of the Storm", which surely induced many more smashed plastic guitars.
    • Beat Saber's 6th OST has the incredible "Power of the Saber Blade", a song made for the OST in question, and which has taken the crown of the most difficult level of the game.
  • Serial Escalation: If you think "Through the Fire and Flames" is bad, add drums, vocals, and bass (if it's even really bass!) in Guitar Hero: Smash Hits.
    • When "Operation Ground and Pound" got released on Rock Band 3, it was harder than its original Guitar Hero DLC counterpart.
    • Although "TTFAF" appears on GITADORA, it uses a 2-minute cut, and the series already has its share of Those Many Bosses so it doesn't particularly stand out as much, other than being "that song that is TOB in Guitar Hero."

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