How well did the new dragonforce album do

The atmosphere is exactly what I expect when I hear the words power metal. It's more like the type of music that I would listen to while standing on top of a mountain as my hair flows in the wind. It's not the type of music you headbang to. The fact that he can sing so high at what sounds to me like perfect pitch is something I admire. Either way, whatever he is doing sounds amazing. I'm more knowledgeable about harsh vocals than clean ones. I don't know anything about the techniques involved with clean vocals, so I won't pretend to know what he's doing with his voice other than sounding awesome. Of all the clean vocalists I have heard in metal, he is definitely the best, no doubt. However, I commend the bassist for also being able to keep up with the tempo. The bass doesn't really play anything different from the guitar. This includes things like tapping, sweep picking, tremolo picking, and a bunch more. The guitar solos use so many different techniques too. They use a lot of tremolo riffs and even more guitar solos that manage to keep you listening the entire time. The guitarists are absolutely incredible. They used a lot of medieval sounds with the keyboards and I love that. However, I feel like keyboards really fit in this album. I'm normally not a fan of keyboards being used in metal, unless it's black metal. The instruments they used are drums, guitars, bass, and keyboards. That reason being the fact that the music is extremely fast, but still has melody to it and still sounds like actual music. It's the same reason that I respect for Infant Annihilator, despite them being a completely different band. However, I think what this album did better than all the other power metal albums I heard was catchiness. Let's talk about Maximum Overload by Dragonforce. Just for that reason alone, I knew I had to review one of their albums. Dragonforce has become the only power metal band that I seem to enjoy. However, I have made an exception for Dragonforce. I have always wanted to enjoy power metal, but I could never get into it for some reason. This album fares about the same as its predecessor, their first album without Theart. The rest of what constitutes this album is pretty solid, songs like вЂњCity of GoldвЂќ and the Johnny Cash cover are fine, (the bonus tracks are decent too) but it is hard to overlook the vocals. So while Marc Hudson does his job, itвЂ™s hard to say he does it well given the shadow heвЂ™s standing in. His vocal abilities drove the majority of these songs, and even dressing up the guitar work in cleaner, slicker production isnвЂ™t enough to masquerade his absence. No matter how bad the band wants to try hiding it, ZP Theart leaving was the most detrimental thing that could have happened to them. Most of the time on this record, the instrumentation and writing are there, but the vocals do leave something to be desired on quite a few different tracks. It's nice to see the band slowing down for a second, for sure, but they should at least try to do it with more style. While the songwriting is usually up to par, the slow detour that 'Three Hammers' takes is kind of strange and is a clear example of the riffs being lazily-composed. Not every riff has to be super technical or be a demonstrating of incredible finger acrobatics, but some of the riffs on this album are just downright simple, which is absolutely unacceptable for DragonForce's standards. The main complaints of this album come from some of the guitar work feeling lazy occasionally, although this isn't a consistent problem. Even when there are some solos that follow a familiar template, it hardly draws away from the appeal. The riffs aren't usually anything mind-blowing and the drumming is the ballistic machine-gun-pounding that usually peppers DragonForce albums, but somehow the band's sound doesn't really get old. The former has a weird guitar solo that isn't quite experimental but it doesn't derail the song completely either. 'The Game' and 'Tomorrow's Kings' are generally pretty great opening tracks, with ultra-melodic guitar licks and supersonic rhythms as cheesy lyrics about overcoming adversity are crooned as best as they can be to keep pace. The songs on this album mostly live up to their potential, but the hooks aren't as strong as expected for a DragonForce album and there are some directionless moments that anchor the band. Maximum Overload is really no difference from the rest of their discography, although their sound seems to be a little bit tackier this time around. Their overly-fast playing and the blitz of notes that's strung together loosely in the form of song is often overwhelming or just annoying for most, but my opinion tends to agree with their sound. DragonForce is hit or miss for most people.

How well did the new dragonforce album do