The Flame of Youth

Album: Inhuman Rampage (2006)
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Songfacts®:

  • Written by DragonForce members Herman Li, Sam Totman, Vadim Pruzhanov and ZP Theart, the song takes place in a dark fantasy world where evil reigns. The song is a call to fight these nefarious forces with the vigor of youth.
  • In our interview with Sam Totman and Herman Li, Totman said of this track, "A lot of our songs will be a kind of follow-the-dots type of thing. It'll be G, C, B, E - this kind of thing. And that's how it ended up." He added, "It was one of those ones where my fingers were just going wherever they wanted to go."
  • DragonForce played this song live for the first time on November 21, 2007 during a show at the Manchester Evening News Arena in England. It did not go well. "We had to start the song again, because we totally screwed it up," Herman Li told us. "We just said, 'Let's stop, let's do this again.'"

Comments: 1

  • Terminatorzxy from SerbiaWe did actually end up finding the recording of the sole live performance they did of this song.
    Exactly what Herman described happened here. The redo was fine though.
    https://youtu.be/QrQ6nLammao
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