Is DF’s Through The Fire And Flames The New Eruption?
March 19, 2008 by Scott
Hell no!There is no doubt that DragonForce’s Through The Fire And Flames is a song of insanely complicated guitar work and in the early 80’s every new kid playing guitar was out to learn Eddie Van Halen’s Eruption note for note. However Through The Fire And Flames to me may be a bit too long and overly noodled. I can’t play Eruption or TTFAF and I wouldn’t give either a try. If anything I consider myself a rhythm guitarist and the most complex licks I have probably ever made an effort to learn are the intro to Crazy Train, the beginning of Sweet Child Of Mine and the lead in the beginning of For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Most people knew at least one guy that always showed up when you were trying to jam in a public place and wanted to show off how cool he was by playing Eruption. More power to them for taking the time to learn that song but I just don’t have that kind of patience to bother with that kind of guitar work. Save it for the talent show, buddy. I find it much more fun to just jam out on a bunch of power chords and make some bad ass rhythm lines. I’ve never taken any kind of lessons, learned any type of method and I have a ball doing what I do.
So back to the origin of the article. Like I said, while DragonForces Through The Fire And Flames is a wildly complicated tune and remarkably long enough to make an insomniac grow sleepy with it, it just will never have that same pizzazz that Eruption had and still has. The new 300th edition of Guitar World Magazine has 18…yeah, 18 pages of Through The Fire And Flames transcribed. To me that’s 18 pages that could have been used to transcribe 3 other songs…but I still bought the magazine. However there is a cd with a lot of classic Guitar World videos featuring guitar hero’s like Dave Mustaine, Dimebag Darrell, EVH, Zakk Wylde, Slash and Kerry King. Metallica’s Call Of Kthulu is transcribed as well. The Magazine goes through all 300 issues and summarizes each one. Other than 18 pages of Dragonforce, this is a pretty good issue.
Great song to listen to. I object to it being included on Guitar Hero 3. Through the Fire and Flames makes my fingers cramp up!
Yeah, I don’t like that song on “easy”. I didn’t think about it until last night but I don’t know how Eruption hasn’t made it on any Guitar hero’s yet.
Hell no pretty much sums it all up. I can’t stand Dragonforce anymore. I used to think they were cool and all, and no doubt they can shred, but Through the Fire and Flames is just seems way too long and for me it sort of drags on. Fun to play on GHIII though.
Looks like a good issue of Guitar World. I’ll be looking forward to getting this.
LTC
This transcription on TtF&tF is incorrect, it’s missing a whole part of the song and is a different solo than what is on GH3. If you want that version look elsewhere
Well the question is, is the solo on guitar hero 3 correct and same as the song or did they shorten or rearrange it?
Nope. Isn’t now, never will be. Dragonforce is crap. Everything sounds the same. I don’t like them at all. Regret paying one dollar for the song. Retarded…It is retarded.
Agreed, Jake.