After being greeted by some neon keyboards, “Highway to Oblivion” and “Cosmic Power of the Infinite Shred Machine” kickstart our hearts with high-octane, high-impact shredding that sounds like the album art looks. So, for Extreme Power Metal to be as good as it is, is quite impressive. From the high-flying over the top power metal to a more standardized and powerless sound that resulted in the crappy Reaching into Infinity, it just seemed like Dragonforce were done. Long story short, any good will built up by Guitar Hero having “Through the Fire and the Flames”, as well as the first three albums being genuinely great albums, had all but dissipated since then with increasingly less good albums and a further stripping down of their sound. Not because it’s bad – actually, because it’s a pretty good album from a band that had become practically irrelevant by the time the album came out.
Extreme Power Metal has to be one of the most unfortunate albums to have been released, certainly in recent times.
