Now we are defenseless in a land where dragons rule...

I couldn't let a whole day go by with no kind of update, so I thought I'd share with you all a recent obsession of mine.


Flash of steel in the mid-day sun
The battle has begun
Blood spills all around us but still we carry on

No mercy we will show to them
The white flag shall be raised
We'll fight for our freedom
Ride towards this evil place

We all stand until the end allegiance to this game...

No, that's not an excerpt from the latest Dungeons And Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide...it's lyrics from Dragonforce, a heavy metal band that I heard for the first time last week, and can't get out of my head.

Normally, I'm not one for really heavy metal. There's either too much screaming, or it just plain scares me. But this band is different. Sure, they have the double-bass drum action going, and solos played so fast and so long they make your pants fly off. But the thing that kicks ass the most about Dragonforce is that they don't take themselves seriously. You know how Tenacious D goes around proclaiming that they're the "greatest band in the world" while the whole time they're letting us in on the joke? But at the same time, while they're spoofing all things hard rock...it turns out that they actually can rock better than most bands out there? It's the same thing with Dragonforce.

Unless of course, they do take 5 minute guitar solos and lyrics about dragons, ancient kingdoms and magical quests seriously. And that's just as entertaining to me.

If you want to hear them, go give them a listen. It's pure geeky pleasure, but it's a pleasure nonetheless. They sound like what Iron Maiden would have turned out like if Steve Perry from Journey was on lead vocals and John Tesh was there to arrange the keyboard parts.