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DRAGONFORCE Launch "The Game" Video; Announce Release Date For Maximum Overload By Larry Petro, News Monkey Wednesday, June 18, 2014 @ 11:39 AM
Produced by Jens Bogren at Fascination Studios in Örebro and Varberg, Sweden, the new
opus will be the band's first ever album involving an outside producer, having historically
opted to record themselves in association with Karl Groom. Maximum
Overload will be the band's debut album for new label Ear Music, part of the German
Edel music group, who will release the album in the UK on August 18th, and in North America
on Metal Blade Records on August 19th.
"Working with Jens gave us a different perspective on the songs and a different sound
dynamic. We always previously recorded in our own studios but recording in Sweden made us
focus and maybe drove us harder, Jens certainly did, he doesn't believe in days off!" said
guitar maestro Herman Li.
"The album title and album cover artwork is inspired by the constant bombardment of
information we are subjected to during our daily lives" Li added. "We were in an airport
departure lounge surrounded by TV screens, flight information screens and advertising
screens. We then looked around and no one was saying a word, they were all looking at more
screens on tablets, laptops and mobile phones, there's no escaping it, it's complete
information overload"!
The album also features an all time first for DRAGONFORCE...a cover song! Guitarist
Sam Totman explained: "Just before the last Australian tour, our manager suggested it
might be interesting to do a cover for the next album, something we've always refused even to
consider. Because we had all had a couple beers every band member wrote down 3 songs each and
we compared them all, just for a laugh. I wrote down "Ring Of Fire" by
Johnny Cash, an idea which the rest of the band loved, so we've DRAGONFORCE-
ized it"!
DRAGONFORCE is:
http://www.dragonforce.com
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Maximum Overload features a couple of surprises, notably a guest appearance on
some of the songs from TRIVIUM's Matt Heafy. "We've always gotten on really
well with the TRIVIUM guys and it was great when Matt had a couple of days to spare
and agreed to weigh in on some of the songs!" added bassist Frederic Leclercq.