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“The record label called to tell me that we were selling albums like crazy. We were playing just before Slipknot and Disturbed at festivals”: As Guitar Hero turns 20, DragonForce’s Herman Li recalls how the game turned them into a household name

DragonForce’s Through the Fire and Flames was included in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and became a resounding success – so much so that it threatened to overshadow the rest of the band’s repertoire

Guitar World

Guitar Hero at 20 – how a plastic axe bridged the gap between rock generations

Guitar Hero’s controllers let anyone become a star in their own living room – and made the bands featured in the game household names again

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“It’s a guitar that brings high-end performance within reach for everyone”: PRS announces huge SE lineup update, teaming up with Herman Li to bring top-tier shred to the masses with the Chleo SE

PRS expands its Dave Grissom signature range, makes the PRS SE Hollowbody “fully PRS” and debuts the SE CE 24 Standard Satin with a stop-tail, which at $499 is as affordable as PRS gets

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“Proves that a world-class instrument doesn’t have to break the bank”: PRS finally rolls out an SE version of its boundary-pushing Herman Li Chleo signature guitar

The SE Chleo shares many similarities with the core model – including custom Fishman pickups, a radically modified neck profile, and Li-coded “Eclipse Dragon” inlays – at a lower price point

Guitar World

“He just started drinking. We left his drunkenness in there, and it became a thing for us: drink and shred”: How a cult power metal band and an insanely successful video game brought shred guitar heroics to a new generation

All it took was one of the 2000’s most successful video games

Metal Hammer

“People laughed at us, saying, ‘Why are you playing guitar solos? This is so lame.’ We thought, ‘Let's go even faster’”: Herman Li on how Guitar Hero helped make guitar solos cool again – and why grunge killing off the shred scene wasn’t a bad thing

Guitar cultures come and go, and though Li was instrumental in putting shred back on the menu, he says the grunge scene was “great” for this one reason

Guitar World

“PRS' most daring signature guitar to date? Without a shadow of a doubt”: Here is all the new gear that has caught my eye this week – including an affordable replica of a $1 million Les Paul

PRS ushers in a new era of shred with its Herman Li signature model and Epiphone honors a great

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“A new evolution for PRS”: Herman Li tears up the PRS template with the Chleo – a signature model 4 years in the making that’s unlike anything the firm has ever done before

A new body shape with radical contours, custom Fishman pickups, 13 tonal voices, and a floating trem stabilizer headline the Chleo, which ushers in a new era for PRS guitars

Guitar World

“Metal is the only genre that’s open to so many different types of music. That’s why Babymetal is here right now”: How Babymetal smashed the barriers and defied the haters to become Japan’s biggest metal band

The rise of the of the 21st century’s most unexpected metal sensations

Metal Hammer

“Prog is the thinking person’s music – maybe that’s why the musicians are so friendly”: Dragonforce’s Herman Li joined Dream Theater’s fan club and never looked back

Guitarist names his favourite track by the American prog metal titans, and some of the bands he discovered through them

Metal Hammer

Watch Dragonforce’s Through The Fire And Flames be played on the harp by someone with faster fingers than you

Harpist extraordinaire Kristan Toczko has also covered tracks by AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden and more

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“Paul Reed Smith wanted to do something, but I had to explain it was my dream as a kid to have an Ibanez signature. Paul said he’d do anything to make it happen”: Herman Li on his switch to PRS – and the perils of shredding on waterslides

Paul Reed Smith wanted to do something but I had to explain it was my dream as a kid to have an Ibanez signature. Paul said he’d do anything to make it happen

Guitar World

"We've got maybe another 10, 15 years? Playing a Dragonforce set is not easy": Guitar hero Herman Li talks technique, helping popularise power metal and the next generation of shredders

We put your questions to Herman Li on everything from teaming up with Polyphia and Animals As Leaders to video-games, power metal and how long the band can continue

Metal Hammer

“He came up and said, ‘Hey Herman, how’s it going?’ That was a shocker!”: the encounter with a guitar legend that left Dragonforce’s Herman Li speechless

It takes a lot for Herman Li to be starstruck, but one iconic guitar hero managed it

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“We’ve always played fast, and that hasn’t changed. But the big thing is finding new notes that instantly fit within that zone”: Herman Li on DragonForce’s new era of maximalist shred, AI in music and the fine art of string bending

These days, amid the fire and the flames of DragonForce’s extreme power metal, you’ll detect a little something extra in Herman Li’s playing: an emphasis on melody and dynamics

Metal Hammer

Dragonforce's Herman Li: "I'm not in the top thousand guitar players in this world."

Beloved Dragonforce guitarist Herman Li adopts a humble attitude when it comes to his place in the grand pantheon of shredders

Guitar World

“Hi Swifties! Let us know what you think”: DragonForce drop outrageously shreddy Taylor Swift cover

Taken from forthcoming album, Warp Speed Warriors, the extreme power metal band have put their spin on Wildest Dreams, and – shock horror – Herman Li isn’t holding anything back

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Hear Dragonforce’s Through The Fire And Flames in the new Despicable Me 4 trailer

Dragonforce – and their signature song being impossible on Guitar Hero – are referenced in the new teaser for Steve Carell’s animated blockbuster

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DragonForce’s Herman Li is one of power metal’s most outrageous shredders – put your playing through the fire and flames with this lesson in his videogame-inspired soloing style

Melodically OTT, technically on point even when on the trampoline or underwater, Li is one of shred guitar’s greatest showmen

Metal Hammer

Watch Dragonforce guitarist Herman Li nail the notoriously hard Through The Fire And Flames solo...while underwater

In 2015, DragonForce’s Herman Li made metal’s hardest solo even harder by playing it in a swimming pool. And he smashed it

Metal Hammer

Sabaton took over a Swedish island in the dead of winter and it was as crazy as it sounds

What happened when the world's biggest power metal band invaded a tiny Swedish island?

Guitar World

Watch DragonForce’s Herman Li shred underwater as he goes Through the Fire and the Flames – and a water slide – to end up in a hot-tub

The DragonForce shredder and bassist Alicia Vigil donned masks and snorkels and turned power metal into a water sport during their set at the 70000 Tons of Metal Cruise 2023

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