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• #Dragonforce wings of liberty full#

He’s got a really amazing range, so as far as writing, it’s been like a breath of fresh air. We used to tune down to E flat with ZP (Theart) in the band, just to make it a bit easier for him, and now with Marc we’ve gone back to the proper tuning in E, so it’s actually improved the live show, if anything. We knew he could do them anyway, before we picked him, otherwise he wouldn’t have been much use to us (laughs). Sam Totman: “Well, obviously, when we chose him, we had to get someone that could do the older songs, and he’s doing really amazing. Roadrunner Records: How has Marc changed the way the older songs are performed? Do you drop those down, or go up with them, anything like that? It wasn’t done to be more commercial, it was just to condense it down, basically.” We haven’t sold out or anything, if people are worried about that. Saying that, there is at least one on there that’s six or seven minutes long. So that’s why I decided the time has come to do shorter songs, basically. I didn’t think I’d ever end up like that, but I’m finding that I’ll put a record on and listen to a few songs, then change to something else. I’ve gotten the impression that hardly anyone listens to an album straight through anymore, so it needs to be condensed down a bit, I think, and I’m the same way. I see it with my friends in the old days, you’d put a CD on and you couldn’t be bothered changing it, but now, everyone I see, all they do is flick through their songs on their MP3 player. We put it throughout the song instead – there’ll be a lot of guitar underneath the vocals, and like that. So what we tried to do was, if we’ve got a shorter song, there’s still just as much guitar in there, but the instrumental sections won’t be quite as long. But at the same time, I didn’t want to lose anything that we’ve got.

#Dragonforce wings of liberty full#

So I didn’t want to listen myself to another DragonForce album full of seven-minute-long songs. And me too – I like long songs occasionally, but I can’t listen to a whole album of them. Mainly because the world we live in now, it’s quite sad, but everybody’s got such a short attention span, nobody’ll listen to a seven-minute song anymore. Sam Totman: “No, definitely, I actually thought of that before we started, it was definitely something I wanted to do. Was that your intention all along, or did it just happen that way? Roadrunner Records: The songs are a lot shorter and more concise this time. In the interview Totman talks about the band’s new album The Power Within, new vocalist Marc Hudson and more. Roadrunner Records recently conducted an interview with DRAGONFORCE guitarist Sam Totman.