Released: 2006
DragonForce's previous album Sonic Firestorm was a breathtakingly over-the-top collection of hyperfast power metal laden with seemingly infinite wild instrumental breaks featuring blazing guitar and keyboard solos and the occasional bit of singing. Inhuman Rampage sees them continue in the same vein to the extent of not being that different, but when a band does this so well and is obviously having so much fun doing it, it probably doesn't really matter.
Like its predecessor, Inhuman Rampage is the ultimate triumph of style over substance. The songs are blindingly fast with soaring, chest-beating choruses and dazzling, endless, wrist-breaking dual guitar solos with equally histrionic keyboards thrown in for good measure. It doesn't really matter what the lyrics are about, because the solos go on for so long you can barely remember them. It's cheesy beyond belief, but it's also very clear that DragonForce at no time ever pretends to be anything more than they are, and that is an insanely fast band having a complete blast. The album is one infectiously catchy track after another, and while each one really doesn't sound that different from the next the whole thing is done so well and is so ridiculous at the same time that's it's hard not to like it.
I reviewed Sonic Firestorm in my zine when it first came out and said pretty much the same sort of thing, but in truth there isn't much else you could say. I'm not sure how much longer DragonForce could go on in this vein without becoming just a little bit tedious, but while they do the ride is going to be fun.
- Through the Fire and the Flames
- Revolution Deathsquad
- Storming the Burning Fields
- Operation Ground and Pound
- Body Breakdown
- Cry for Eternity
- The Flame for Youth
- Trail of Broken Hearts
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