Watch first, because this song comes with the full show: the official video for Neverending Nightmare, directed by Dan Masso, is on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNuzCI4RpAI and it is the new DragonForce era in one clip. The song is a YouTube exclusive right now and lands on streaming services everywhere on Thursday, November 12.
Neverending Nightmare is the second single from DragonForce, the band's self titled tenth album, due March 19, 2027 on Napalm Records, produced by Jens Bogren. It opens with Alissa White-Gluz singing clean and haunting, then the floor drops out: six minutes plus of full speed DragonForce, extended guitar solos trading back and forth between Herman Li and Sam Totman, and clean and harsh vocals colliding the whole way down. This band does one thing and does it at a hundred miles an hour. This is that thing, with a bigger engine.
“Six minutes plus, two lead singers, and guitar solos stacked like cordwood. DragonForce never learned moderation and I am grateful.”
Moe Train
The vocal setup is the real story of this era. White-Gluz is the band's first frontwoman and permanent vocalist, and she shares lead vocals with Alessio Garavello, a friend and collaborator of the band for 25 years who is covering the male vocal position while previous singer Marc Hudson temporarily steps back with an ongoing tinnitus issue. The first taste of the pairing, Hunger Of The Beast, landed back in September. Two lead singers built for opposite ends of the range, on a DragonForce record. It should not work on paper. It works loud.
Herman Li is not underselling any of it. His line on the album: "This is unlike any DragonForce album you've ever heard." We will judge that in March. First, the road test: the Inhuman Rampage 20th Anniversary Tour starts Friday, November 13 in San Diego, hitting 22 cities across November and December with Ensiferum and Rhapsody Of Fire, front to back performances of Inhuman Rampage, songs the band has never played live, and previews of the new record. Through The Fire And Flames turns 20 and the band that wrote it is somehow playing faster. See you out there.
Source: Blabbermouth
