Herman Li: So we got to meet him and talk and chat for a few hours and that was cool and then we put him in the rehearsal room with us to see how he would perform. (laughs) Every singer I've met so far say the one thing, "Stay off the drinking 'till afterwards!"
#Dragonforce members professional#
Even though most singers have to be very professional and they can't drink that much. Then we met to see how much he could drink and to see if he could be a partner in crime on tour as well. After he sang that one it was, "Oh, that's good, not bad," because that's a really difficult song, especially in its original key. Now, let's send him a harder one." So the first song we sent was "Fury Of The Storm" before we even bothered meeting up with him. Herman Li: Well, from Marc's first video that he sent in, we liked it and we contacted him to sing another song. How much emphasis did you put on that when you were auditioning Marc? What was it besides his voice that made you feel that he was the one? It's not just you being a great singer, there's the personal side to it as well and working in a group with five other guys. Metalshrine: Auditioning singers, I guess there's a lot of stuff that has to work. It's like I had the ability, but I didn't fully show it until the album recording got into the swing of it. A high note here and an alternative here. I have a lot to offer, but they had to kind of explore my voice with me and through each song. I know that I can sing certain stuff, but I was no way cocky in any way, because these guys have been doing it for years and years and my experience is so small. I was more eager to please them and on a personal level as well, so like a quiet confidence, if you will. I didn't come in confident thinking I've got all of this stuff and show DRAGONFORCE I'm the shit, it wasn't like that. Marc Hudson: To be honest, I think I was neither of those two things. Did you come in thinking "Oh, I've got all these cool ideas," or did you have a lot more laid-back approach? Metalshrine: Marc, you've come in as the new singer. We've actually broken our own rules book as we said we would never do certain things in DRAGONFORCE, and we actually did. The speed is obviously still there, but we've expanded our boundaries on this album. I mean, we definitely touch on different kind of musical ways that we haven't done before. Herman Li: I think it's definitely a different type of dynamics than the last album. Metalshrine: Do you consider this album more different than the previous ones? How do you look at it? A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Niclas Müller-Hansen of Sweden's Metalshrine recently conducted an interview with with vocalist Marc Hudson and guitarist Herman Li of British epic power metallers DRAGONFORCE.
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