Ted Bundy wrote:[third of all you obviously haven't seen any of the bands I have listed because they certainly aren't repetitive, and fourth of all if you ask anyone who knows anything about music in general to compare dragonforce vs. any of the bands I have ever listed on any forum they would probably laugh and spit in your face
Going back to your post in the 'Metal!' thread, I can honestly say that despite the technical problems they had when I saw them at Wacken, I would rather see DragonForce for 45 minutes than Mortician over the same amount of time. The writing on DragonForce's second disc is fairly uninspired, but Mortician is repetitive to the point of becoming a running gag; they are alone with HammerFall (almost typed HammerFail there

) on my list of "bands you need one record from, but only one and it doesn't matter which". (HammerFall, on the other hand, I would rather repeatedly hit myself in the face with a brick rather than watch for another 60 minutes.)
Furthermore: the retarded attitude that only some kinds of metal are worthy and not others, no matter who holds it, is one of the dead-worst parts of the US scene, and one which I was glad to leave behind when I came to Europe. Nobody bitched about Accept and Machine Head headlining Wacken; only a few of us had problems with Stratovarius appearing on the Black Stage. Around here, it is acceptable and even normal to listen to a wide variety of metal subgenres; everyone has their preferences, but there is not the widespread attitude that people on the other end of the spectum are wusses or uncivilized (depending on perspective). It was precisely to blow up this kind of scene-fracturing, sectarian, idiotic thinking that Chuck took HammerFall on the last US tour that Death did; too little, too late, and the wrong band, but power metal as such hadn't taken off yet and DragonForce, Edguy and Sonata Arctica weren't really available.
--K