Dragonforce Reveal New Album

UK Metal titans DRAGONFORCE are nearing completion of their sixth studio album entitled "Maximum Overload". 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.

Check out the bands new demo song for "Defenders" below.



“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.

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!”comments bassist Frederic Leclercq.

The album also features another all-time first for DragonForce: a cover song. Guitarist Sam Totman explains, “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 three 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!”

Maximum Overload will be released on Standard CD, standard digital version, special edition CD with 5 bonus tracks and a bonus DVD, special edition digital version, and on vinyl.

Pre-orders, videos, and new music will be available at metalblade.com this summer. A full World Tour in support of the new album will commence in the UK in September 2014.

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Jason Fisher    March 31, 2014