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- Summary: The metal band releases its first album with Frederic Leclercq on bass.
- Record Label: Roadrunner
- Genre(s): Rock, Metal
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 2 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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Power metal may not be the most inventive musical style on the planet, but Dragonforce are making it more exciting than most anyone else has for quite some time.
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Alternative PressUltra Beatdown is a relentless explosion of power metal serving as a superb master class for fledgling shredders on any instrument. [Sep 2008, p.152] [Sep 208, p.152]
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Those in the know can attest DF is merely coming into its own after years on the touring circuit.
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Ultra Beatdown ultimately delivers what the band promises, which is all the fans can ask for.
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True, the lyrics (nearly all of which offer some variation on a battle/victory cliché) are borderline brain-dead, the musicianship is all slippery soullessness, and the production is so oppressive that the instruments might as well be synthesized. But in a subgenre where understatement matters less than showing one's might, these could just as well be merits.
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UncutA grandiose power metal pomposity that marshals such gusts of keyboard and flowery, Yngwie Malmsteen guitar duelling it basically feels like a climax strung out over 60 minutes; epic in short bursts, slightly tiring in the long haul. [Nov 2008, p.92]
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Ultra Beatdown features the same guitar riffing, theatric singing and the rest of that stuff that doesn’t matter in regards to Dragonforce.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 21
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Mixed: 4 out of 21
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Negative: 3 out of 21
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HowlPenDragonAug 29, 2008
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HannahCDec 8, 2008
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Dec 10, 2013
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JustinS.Sep 16, 2008
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LordPNov 28, 2008Good stuff. truly a lot of dragonforce sounds the same but it keeps going good and the guitar is exiting.
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Jan 13, 2012
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[Anonymous]Aug 29, 2008
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