DRAGONFORCE kicked off their "Inhuman Rampage" 20th-anniversary North American tour on Friday, November 13, at The Observatory North Park in San Diego, California. The 22-date run is the band's largest across the continent in more than twenty years.
Every night the band plays the 2006 album Inhuman Rampage from front to back in a full stage production. That means songs that had never been performed live before — the opening night gave "Cry For Eternity" its live debut, captured by fans in the clip below. The set also previews the upcoming self-titled album with "Hunger Of The Beast" and the freshly released "Neverending Nightmare", which we covered earlier this week (read it here).
Inhuman Rampage is the record that gave the world "Through The Fire And Flames" — the platinum-selling anthem and notorious final boss of "Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock". The album spent 23 consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 and turned the London power metal speedsters into a global name.
This is also the first North American tour with Alissa White-Gluz, the ex-ARCH ENEMY singer who became DRAGONFORCE's first frontwoman in May, sharing lead vocals with Alessio Garavello. Garavello, a friend of the band for 25 years who filled in for Marc Hudson in 2016 and 2023, is covering the male vocals while Hudson steps back to deal with tinnitus.
The new album, Dragonforce, arrives on March 19, 2027 via Napalm Records. Produced by Jens Bogren and recorded across the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Sweden, it is the band's tenth studio record.
DRAGONFORCE is: Alissa White-Gluz (lead vocals), Alessio Garavello (lead vocals), Herman Li (guitar), Sam Totman (guitar), Billy Wilkins (rhythm guitar), Alicia Vigil (bass), Gee Anzalone (drums).