DragonForce have released Neverending Nightmare, the second song from DragonForce, which Napalm Records put out on 19 March 2027.
It runs past six minutes and starts in the least expected place, on Alissa White-Gluz singing clean, before the tempo arrives and stays. She trades the rest with Alessio Garavello, and the harsh and clean parts are split between them rather than stacked, which is the new thing on this record.
Herman Li and Sam Totman take several solos each. Jens Bogren produced, recorded, mixed and mastered it, and Mark Riddick did the artwork, which is a stranger pairing than it sounds: Riddick usually draws for death metal bands who would not be seen near a keyboard.
Li says they tried to put everything they have learned into the tenth one and that it sounds like nothing else, which is what he says about every album and has mostly been right about.
The song is on YouTube only until Thursday. The American tour for the twentieth anniversary of Inhuman Rampage starts in San Diego on 13 November with Ensiferum and Rhapsody of Fire.