Band History:
Speed Metal Band DragonForce is a British origin. Their real name is Dragonheart, and they soon turned to DragonForce. They have two highly regarded guitarists in Sam Totman and Herman Li. Their debut
Members DragonForce:
Theart - Vocals (Shadow Warriors)
Herman Li - Guitar (Igor Belsky)
Sam Totman - Guitar (Power Quest, Shadow Warriors)
Vadim Pruzhanov - Keyboards
Frédéric Leclercq - Bass (Heavenly, maladaptive, ex-Memoria, Denied)
Dave mackintosh - Drums (Bal-Sagoth)
The band started up in 1999 with the formation of Herman Li (guitar), Sam Totman (guitar), ZP Theart (vocals), Didier Almouzni (drums), at the moment there is no bass player.
In 2000, they started to give out their demo album titled "
June, 2000, they started the demo release at a site on mp3.com, and they memuncaki tangga2 power metal song, at that time, Harper Diccon Bassist who are alumni of the
In 2001, they wrote many songs for their debut album, and did many performances. in 2001, the keyboardist, Vadim pruzhanov joined DragonHeart, and began to participate in their performances.
Once under contract with Noise records in 2002, they began to busy to do the recording the final version of their debut album "
In 2002, bassist Diccon Harper began to feel that DragoHeart not like-minded with the flow of his music, he came out of the band, later replaced by Adrian Lambert.
after passing through several tours, 2003, Didier Almouzni, drummer for this group, joined them back in for the same reasons mentioned by Diccon Harper.
Didier fill the void, dave Mackintosh, drummer flow Symphonic Black Metal "Bal-Sagoth".
Then, in the year 2003 their debut album came out with the same name with their previous album "
Their second album (Dragon Force), Sonic Firestorms start recorded in October until December in the year 2006 2003.dan year they released their third album, In human Rampage.
DragonForce Formation date:
ZP "Zippy" Theart (1999-present)
DragonForce singer, born in 1975 in clainwilliam, south africa
theart joined DragonForce, after a friend of one group, namely Herman Li and Sam Totman saw theart on Theart ads in the magazine "Metal Hammer", said li, theart is the person who so far they are looking for a vocalist in this band. theart, can also play acoustic guitar. besides, he also sang for the group of metal and punk rock comedy "shadow warriors", which is a side project of the sam thotman.
Herman Li (1999-present)
Lead and rhytm guitar, backing vocals and was born in Hong Kong in 1976. beginning he plays guitar in 1992 at the age of 16 years. after a long play in a few underground metal groups in London, he decided to form his own group with the flow of power metal that was named "DragonHeart" which changed its name to "DragonForce". Herman bergitar who has a style very quickly, he claimed music was inspired by video games and some games from the computer game music, this is reflected in his guitar playing on the song "through the fire and Flames" on the album "in Human Rampage", he said he could enter pacman game sound effects on guitar on that song.
Li at Upstairs at the event as the best shredder Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards in 2005, through the albums sonic firestorms. Li and his group, Sam Totman has won four categories in Guitar World's Readers Poll in 2007, as Best New Talent, best metal riff best, and best shredder. They also won best solo guitar, through the song Through the Fire and Flames in Total Guitar's readers poll in 2007.
Sam Totman (1999-present)
DragonForce lead and rhytm guitarist, born in England, and spent his time in New Zealand kanak2, he began playing guitar at age 9 yr, with a classical guitar. before he joined with DragonForce, he played with three band together different streams. one demoniac. at the time of the demoniac stage name is "Heimdall". demoniac released three albums, before the break, they moved from New Zealand to london and disbanded in late 1999. Totman wrote several songs for DragonForce, he is also still active as a member of the band (additional player) "Power Quest" is in English power metal band who was founded in 2001. nota bene the founders were steve williams (former keyboard player dragonHeart). Totman is alcoholic, sometimes in his live performances that often he played guitar in a drunken state, he is often in the criticism of fans due to this bad habit, it's nothing, just a result of his guitar playing into a strange and ugly. Totman often use Ibanez guitars in every stage of action, such as the V series guitars Blade, VBT700, and IC400.
Vadim Pruzhanov (2001-present)
keyboard and keytar player dragon force, aged 23 years, born in ukraine, then moved to London, England. He started playing piano at age 8 years, and deepen their knowledge in the school piano. Three years in school studying piano, Vadim seemed bored and eventually he decided to learn the piano itself. in the learning process, he became familiar with rock, and are interested in a career in this genre.
Vadim also can play the guitar, he inspired some famous guitar players like Yngwie Malmsteen, strapping Young Lad, Steve Vai, Pantera, Judas Priest, Symphony X and Dream Theater.
Dave Mackintosh (2003-present)
Dave "Compact Dynamo" Mackintosh, so the name and nickname of the drummer and backing vocals Dragon Force, which is famous for pedalnya game very quickly, before, Dave is a member of the band "Bal-Sagoth" Symphonic black metal band from the UK was established in 1993 - present, Dave became a member of "Bal-Sagoth" on the album The power cosmic (1999) and Atlantic ascedant (2001).
Dave's game is influenced by the drummer2 like: Neil Peart, Mike Portnoy, Tommy Aldridge, Charlie Benante, Ingo Schwichtenberg, Nicko McBrain, Jonny Maudling, Vinnie Paul.
Frédéric Leclercq (2005-present)
Bass player Dragon Force, a multi talented alias has a diverse talent is not only able to play bass guitar, but can play keyboards and guitar, other than that he was also a session musician or singer called charter that can sing in other bands, as a duet partner in bernyanyi.Fred, is a former member of the groups power metal band from the french "Heavenly".
Fred grew up in a family of musicians, the first he knew music through the piano, which then led to the world of heavy metal at the age of 12 years, he moved from playing the piano and playing guitar. After a successful playing in several underground metal groups in their homes, french, he then joined the "Heavenly", with "Heavenly" he managed to produce the album Sign of the winner (2001) and Dust to dust (2004). And do european tour .
2004, fred, together with bass player and drummer "Heavenly", he formed a group homage to heavy thrash metal "maladaptive", who produced a demo (SUXEED), and have done tours in France, apart from that maladaptive be the opening band big konser2 such as anthrax.
fred, DragonForce joined in 2006. after the previous bass player, Adrian Lambert decided to get out of dragon force. fred fill the void dragon force Lambert on show in Japan and North America. Fred bass influenced by Uli Jon Roth, Adrian Smith, Trey AzagthothMarty.
