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Herman Li
Position
Lead/Rhythm Guitars & Backing Vocals
Signature Stage Moves
Guitar lifting whammy bar slam
Playing with his tongue!
Current Main Live and Studio Equipment
Guitars:
Ibanez E-Gen - Herman Li Signature Model
DiMarzio® HLM Pickups - Herman Li Model
D'Addario Strings
Biography
Herman Li is the guitarist, songwriter and producer of the Grammy nominated metal act DragonForce.
Having recently released their fourth album, 'Ultra Beatdown', DragonForce is currently bouncing around the globe on a World Headline Tour.
'Inhuman Rampage', the band’s international breakthrough album, featured the U.S. & Canadian Gold Single ‘Through the Fire and Flames’, also a hit in the video game Guitar Hero III. However, ‘Ultra Beatdown’ is the album that has taken DragonForce to new heights, crashing into the Top 20 national album charts in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Singapore and the Top 10 in Japan.
In the last few years, Herman has established himself as one of the most recognized and influential guitarists of the new generation. Accolades starting pouring in, starting with the 2005 'Best Shredder' award at the annual Metal Hammer Golden Gods. Herman also won four categories in Guitar World's 2007 Readers Poll for 'Best New Talent' (winning by 70%), 'Best Metal', 'Best Riff' and 'Best Shredders'. He also won 'Best Guitar Solo' for ‘Through the Fire and Flames’ in Total Guitar's readers' poll in 2007, as well as numerous other polls in printed and online press around the world. Outside of DragonForce, Herman has been invited to perform with guitar legends such as Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Paul Gilbert, just to name a few.
Dave Mackintosh
Position
Drums & Backing Vocals
Main Equipment
Tama Starclassic birch/bubinga, ultraviolet sparkle
Kicks: 2 x 22" x 18"
Brass snare: 14" x 5.5" (main)
Starclassic maple 14” x 5.5 snare(secondary)
Toms: 8", 10", 12", 13", 14"
Floor Toms: 16" & 18"
4 x octaban,left side
4 x octaban, right side
1 x 20” gong drum
Double tier, Tama power tower rack, with Tama road pro hardware
2 x Tama Iron Cobra pedals (rolling glide)
Roland TD-20bk meshheads and triggers
Vic Firth 5a extreme hickory sticks and stick bags
Biography
Dave "Compact Dynamo" Mackintosh began playing at the tender age of eight, and discovered twin kick drums by twelve. Since then, he knew his musical direction, "Metal"! While performing and recording with plenty of unsigned acts throughout the years, he has gained valuable experience not only in his musicianship, but also in showmanship. his thirst for metal has grown ever more extreme. Only now, after two full length albums with black metal outfit Bal-Sagoth, is Dave able to cope with the extreme speed and intensity of DragonForce!
ZP THEART
Position
Lead Vocals & Backing Vocals
Signature Stage Moves
Fucking Swearing!
Main Live Equipment
A bottle of Jack
Electro-Voice Rev Wireless Microphones
Shure In-Ear Monitors
Biography
Without being able to say when exactly he started singing "Since I can remember I guess..." this curly haired frontman has been doing styles ranging from Blues, Thrash & Rock to Metal. Take this experience, plus an extremely high vocal range, combine it with an endless amount of energy, and you end up with: ZP Theart, the man upfront centre rocking the masses, flanked by a fierce instrummental attack and backed by a groinchurning rhythm section that is DRAGONFORCE! When there's time to spare, you'll occasionaly catch him messing around on the old 6-string accoustic, but he mostly devotes his time to writing lyrics and melodies. ZP has further built his experience being part of various projects on and off stage, as well as in the studio.
VADIM PRUZHANOV
Position
Keyboards & Backing Vocals
Signature Stage Moves
Getting derranged!
Main Live Equipment
Korg Triton Extreme
Korg N264
Korg X50
Korg Kaoss Pad KP3
MIDIjet Pro - Wireless Midi System
Customised Roland AX7
Sennheiser IEM G2
Biography
Born in Ukraine than later moved to London England, Vadim is the 23 years old keyboard wizard of DragonForce.
With an early start on the piano at the young age of 8, Vadim studied at a music school since the beginning. Bored, he quit three years later and carried on as a self-taught player instead. It is at that time Vadim discovered rock music and decided to pursue it as a career. He got a small keyboard (Yamaha PSS-51) and started to create his own music at the age of 12 and carried on since. Apart from playing the keyboard, Vadim is also a capable guitar player who likes to spend time burning some solos on his Ibanez guitar.
SAM TOTMAN
Position
Lead/Rhythm Guitars & Backing Vocals
Signature Stage Moves
360degree tornado jump
Hands free booze drinking
Main Live Equipment
Lots of Booze
Drink Holders
Biography
With three metal albums of different styles under his sleeves before DragonForce, Sam is an experienced professional...or is he? Yes, but more from the drinking, partying side of metal!
Born in England but moved to New Zealand at an early age, Sam started playing the classical guitar at the age of 9 with formal musical training. A great guitar player with plenty of feelings in both rhythm and leads, complement his remarkable ability in writing extremely catchy songs; a perfect combination! The combination of Sam & Herman, two very different guitar players joining forces in DragonForce, is causing quite a stir in the modern metal scene. Watch out for their hyperactive performances, taking the live stage to another level.
FRÉDÉRIC LECLERCQ
Position
Bass Guitar & Backing Vocals
Signature Stage Moves
Black metal whisky sculling
Main Live Equipment
ESP Forest-STD Bass
Peavey Tour 700 Bass Amp
Peavey 810 Bass Cabinets
Mister Fof FL-4 Bass Guitar
Samson Wireless Systems
Samson Studio Gear
ESP Doraemon Guitar
ESP Gundam Guitars
Biography
Frédéric Leclercq is best described as the 'multi' man; multi-instrumentalist (guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, vocalist), multi-styles (death metal, heavy metal, speed metal, thrash metal, rock, classical, glam, black metal), multi-languages (speaks French, English, German and some dirty words in almost every language), and of course multi-bands! Currently singer, guitarist and main man in his band Maladaptive, he also plays session for various bands and used to play keyboard then guitar in the French band Heavenly, not to mention his appearances here and there on various records in the music scene.
Now, Fred adds another great band on his list: DragonForce. This talented, passionate young French man has known Herman from the 'force for over 5 years and was asked to help out on bass for their North America and Japan shows.
Fred displayed so much skills and professionalism on the shows in North America and Japan that he was asked to become DragonForce's permanent bassist. Fred accepted without hesitation.
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