I . . . I . . . I have to share.
Really, I'm not sure how even to contextualize this video except to say that Dragonforce (the band) is a half-mocking, three-quarters serious* throwback to Epic Speed Metal of the late 80's, and that the fan-created video below proves that they should make all of their videos out of Final Fantasy game cutscenes.
It's like . . . everything epic and strange about American Suburbia making out in a Comic Book convention bathroom with everything epic and stragne about Japanese videogame fandom. The only missing ingredient here is a 50-year old company man masturbating to it in Kyoto.
. . . not that we know that *isn't* happening.
*DC2020 insists that there is no irony whatsoever with Dragonforce. On one hand, I can admire their sincerity (i.e. at the level of being a acutal iconoclasts among a fantastically conformist subculture that thinks of itself as iconoclastic), but on the other I just can't help but feel kind of embarassed for how un-ironically *corny* they are.
That said, Dragonforce are so fucking adept and technical, though, that their skill and effort renders critics venomless. We can laugh at them all we want, but we could never do what they do.
Really, I'm not sure how even to contextualize this video except to say that Dragonforce (the band) is a half-mocking, three-quarters serious* throwback to Epic Speed Metal of the late 80's, and that the fan-created video below proves that they should make all of their videos out of Final Fantasy game cutscenes.
It's like . . . everything epic and strange about American Suburbia making out in a Comic Book convention bathroom with everything epic and stragne about Japanese videogame fandom. The only missing ingredient here is a 50-year old company man masturbating to it in Kyoto.
. . . not that we know that *isn't* happening.
*DC2020 insists that there is no irony whatsoever with Dragonforce. On one hand, I can admire their sincerity (i.e. at the level of being a acutal iconoclasts among a fantastically conformist subculture that thinks of itself as iconoclastic), but on the other I just can't help but feel kind of embarassed for how un-ironically *corny* they are.
That said, Dragonforce are so fucking adept and technical, though, that their skill and effort renders critics venomless. We can laugh at them all we want, but we could never do what they do.
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