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Originally Posted by Charlemagne
Personally I can't stand technical guitar playing, sure I can respect their talent but I just have no desire to listen to intricate guitar solos or any band like Dragonforce of Malmsteen...ugh.
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There seems to be a misconception here. I own Dragonforce's entire discography and have attended several of their concerts, and have never encountered anything much more than random running of the fingers up and down the frets. You are perfectly entitled to say that you don't like them (and props for doing so!), but please don't grant them the status of technical talent. The appalling nature of this comes through in one of their slower songs "Trail of Broken Hearts". It's not as unbearable as most of their stuff (although still very, very cheesy), but the guitar solo shows a total absence of any real ideas. They just seem to know how to vary pitch, but I've never found any evidence that they can make that into a tune.