DragonForce: The Power Within – review

(WEA/Roadrunner)Although heavy metal has long embraced the bombastic and the overwrought, DragonForce's remorselessly cheery blend of sugary, Eurovision-style melodies and rampaging velocity has polarised opinion among the leather-clad hordes. Arriving four years after the disappointing Ultra Beatdown, showcasing the dog-startling pipes of new vocalist Marc Hudson, The Power Within amounts to both a strident comeback and an attempt to broaden the Londoners' sonic palate. A neat encapsulation of...

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