As long as they liked what we were doing, that’s good. “We weren’t going to get someone who didn’t like the music, but they didn’t have to be a fan fan. “Of course they had to like the music,” Herman stresses. The right candidate being a fervent admirer of DragonForce’s material wasn’t extremely important, however. That’s one thing that was really important.” The progress that he made while in the band before we finished the album was a huge leap though. Confidence needs some time to grow, so his first show and his tenth show are different things.
That was the way to bring out his confidence and things. We had to do all this jamming to make sure he knew what was going on, he knew us and all that.
#Dragonforce best songs plus#
That was so that it was a real band instead of Marc plus DragonForce. That’s why we did all this rehearsing and jamming that we didn’t do before, because we had to integrate Marc into the band. That was so he could express a song by himself, instead of him reading from a lyric sheet in front of a microphone and things like that for example. “We did a lot of jamming on new songs to get him confident before going into the studio. “Coming in as a non-professional who was playing pubs he was able to learn really quickly, and he got better and better while he was still recording the album and still while we were rehearsing the old songs as well as the new songs. “Apart from the musical side, one thing that Marc really has is that he is a really fast learner,” the axeman enthuses. Marc Hudson’s entrance into the DragonForce line-up was publicly announced in March 2011.
#Dragonforce best songs trial#
Marc had a long trial initially before he was even in the band.” Later on it was just a continuation of what we were doing, rehearsing songs and recording and all that. If you think about that, that took about eight months to do and that was before he was even in the band. After that I went to see him play with his band live in Reading somewhere, and then afterwards we got him into the studio to record demos of the new songs. After that we met up with him just to see his personality, and then we had to have a rehearsal with him singing a 35-minute set, getting him to learn a bunch of songs, and playing them together. He sent us a video, and we got him to sing more songs that he had to record live on a video. “Before Marc was even in the band, we actually worked him really hard in terms of the audition process. I think it’s easy to just find a guy who growls and goes ‘Raaarrrr!!’ but finding a melodic singer who’s good was really difficult actually, one to fit in the band (laughs). It was surprising to find someone from Oxford to sing the kind of stuff that we do, because it’s hard to find a singer who sings melodically. Of course while that was happening, we were also writing songs for the new album. “All that actually lasted quite a long time. It’s hard to be able to know exactly what you’re getting into until after knowing a guy for a few months at least. Of course hopefully they could play onstage well, sing live and everything, yeah (laughs). That was one of the important things, to be able to move on. We wanted a singer that we could really work with better, and have good communication with. The way we approached working things out was really different to the previous album. “You got the musical side there, but you also have to be able to work with the singer of course. The new songs have low range and high range, so they had to be able to pretty much cover everything. They had to be able to sing all the old songs well as well as the new stuff too, but I guess the old stuff is actually in a different style in some ways. Of course they had to sing well, and had to have a good sense of melody. There were so many things we were looking for. “We pretty much approached singers from other bands that we like, and also had a few sending us auditions. “Since DragonForce has been around for awhile, we thought the best way to look for a singer was to do a worldwide search,” explains Herman Li, lead guitarist and co-founder of DragonForce. Musical differences were cited behind the parting at the time, though DragonForce sadly doesn’t wish to discuss ZP’s departure due to legal concerns.
The departure of frontman ZP Theart from United Kingdom-based power metallers DragonForce was confirmed in early March 2010 following an 11-year stint, the man having lent his voice to the albums Valley Of The Damned (February 2003), Sonic Firestorm (May 2004), Inhuman Rampage (January 2006), and Ultra Beatdown (August 2008).
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