At first glimpse, Extreme Power Metal looked less like an album and more like a cry for help, and I was so ill-disposed toward the band at this point, I was ready to "help them" in the Doctor Kevorkian sense. DragonForce in particular had repeatedly exhausted my patience with this shtick, and boy did last album's Death cover not help matters. That album's sweat has since been lapped up by modern imitators like Gloryhammer and Victorious, much to my chagrin, for I find this genre unsatisfying and inorganic, as if bred in laboratories for maximum memetic growth. I'm aware DragonForce didn't exactly invent absurdist electro-power metal, but as far as "putting it on the map" is concerned, I still put the smoking gun in the hands of Ultra Beatdown.
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