Dragonhammer
Formed: 1999
From:
Rome,
Italy
Last Known Status: Active
Latest Dragonhammer News
Below is our complete Dragonhammer news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Dragonhammer Is "Fighting The Beast"
Italy's Dragonhammer released a lyric video for "Fighting The Beast." The new song appears on the band's upcoming new long player "Obscurity," which drops October 27th via My Kingdom Music.
The band will present the new album at a release party supporting Firewind in Rome at Jailbreak Live Club......and so you'll ride the Dragon flying on the music!
"Obscurity" was recorded at Domination Studios by Simone Mularoni (DGM). The track listing is:
1. Darkness Is Coming
2. The Eye Of The Storm
3. Brother vs Brother
4. Under The Vatican's Ground
5. The Game Of Blood
6. The Town Of Evil
7. Children Of The Sun
8. Fighting The Beast
9. Remember My Name
10. Obscurity
Check out "Fighting The Beast" here: More...
Dragonhammer Posts Album Teaser
Today we're another step towards October 27th, when the new Dragonahmmer album titled "Obscurity" will be available worldwide in physical and digital distribution via My Kingdom Music. Check out a teaser trailer below and stay tuned for a new lyric video to come online next week.
"Obscurity" is Dragonhammer's 4th full-length album and the most direct and explosive of the career of one of the prime movers of the Italian power metal scene, thanks to a powerful and heavy production at Domination Studio, with mastering by Simone Mularoni. Pre-orders are online now at this location. More...
Dragonhammer Details New Album "Obscurity"
In just 40 days, the new album "Obscurity" from Italy's Dragonhammer will be in your cold metallic hands. October 27th (via My Kingdom Music) will be the day, but today the band revealed the cover artwork (created by Rob Marconi) and the 10 tracks titles composing the album, without a doubt, one of the most awaited Italian releases of this year!
In a few days, the band will present the first song via a lyric video created by Goffredo Passi at EstremArte Videoproduzioni.
On release day, the band will present it at a release party supporting Firewind in Rome at Jailbreak Live Club......and so you'll ride the Dragon flying on the music!
"Obscurity" was recorded at Domination Studios by Simone Mularoni (DGM). The track listing is:
1. Darkness Is Coming
2. The Eye Of The Storm
3. Brother vs Brother
4. Under The Vatican's Ground
5. The Game Of Blood
6. The Town Of Evil
7. Children Of The Sun
8. Fighting The Beast
9. Remember My Name
10. Obscurity More...
Dragonhammer Announces New Album
"The same instant I received and listened to the final master of our new album 'Obscurity,' sent by Simone Mularoni at Domination Studio, I had clear the idea that we did a great job indeed, without any doubt the best, the most complete and the heaviest album of our almost twenty-year career."
With these words Gaetano Amodio, bass player and Dragonhammers co-founder, presents the band's new album to follow previous release "The X Experiment."
The group today also presents a new line-up with Flavio Cicconi on guitars and Andrea Gianangeli on drums.
"Obscurity" with its ten songs will be released on October 27th once again on My Kingdom Music. Pre-orders are online here and full details, including the cover artwork and track listing, will be made available soon.
Dragonhammer Reveals New Album
Following previous album "The X Experiment," Dragonhammer is gearing up to release a new album. My Kingdom Music comments:
"Now it's time to come back more powerful than ever and they'll do it with a new album titled 'Obscurity' that is going to be ultimated in these days and that will be released at the end of September via My Kingdom Music, with which the band has signed a new deal confirming the great brotherhood with the label."
Gae Amodio and Max Aguzzi add: "We have spent the last couple of years refining our sound, and playing as many shows as we can, and without any doubt we can say that Dragohammer is now a band poised to blow some minds and help re-shape a genre!
"Power and epicity describe well the sound of the new album and soon we'll reveal more about recordings, mastering (a great name will be behind it) and the cover artwork! In 'Obscurity' there is all our experience and the energy gathered during the last two years! Dear friends the Dragon is coming back and wait for something really shattering!" More...
Dragonhammer Posts Live Footage
Dragonhammer has new live video online available for streaming in the YouTube clip below, and the band also comments:
"Here's DragonhammeR performing 'Last Solution' live in Graz! Thank you to all the people that came to the concert, you all people down the stage made our show amazing!"
"Last Solution" comes off the band's 2013 release "The X Experiment." A full video for the track "Follow Your Star" from the same album can also be seen here. More...
Dragonhammer Albums To Be Re-Issued
My Kingdom Music has issued the following announcement about re-releasing two albums from Dragonhammer:
"We are really glad to reissue on January 19th, 2015 the first two Dragonhammer albums released 14 and 10 years ago.
"They are the legendary 'The Blood Of The Dragon' (originally issued on 2001) and 'Time For Expiation' (which saw the light on 2004) presented here in a new 2015 editions featuring a new digital treatment for the artwork thanks to the artist Antonio Pannullo, a completely new layout and for both releases bonus live tracks recorded during the 2014 European tour together with Freedom Call.
"A new European tour will start early next year and some live shows in South America are in program too." More...
Dragonhammer Posts New Video
Dragonhammer has released a new music video for "Follow Your Star," which can be seen below, and the band also comments:
"We are pleased to present our first official video. In the past years our fans have always wondered this but we were waiting for a special occasion! We thought this is the right time!
"This video is composed from voluntary contributions donated by our fans mixed with our recording shooted during our tour supporting Freedom Call... this is a tribute to all friends.
"No bullshit but reality! You will make a trip with us in what has been a great musical and human experience! Ride the Dragon and take your flight on our music and images! Because after all this time we found our star and we followed the light..."
Dragonhammer Posts Live Footage
Footage has been posted online of Dragonhammer performing at the Hard Club in Portugal earlier this year. Check out video below of the band performing "Believe," taken off the "Time for Expiation" album.
Dragonhammer's latest full-length album is titled "The X Experiment" and came out in December of 2013.
Dragonhammer Recruits New Drummer
Dragonhammer has issued the following announcement about bringing on a new band member:
"DragonhammeR are pleased to announce their new drummer Andrea Gianangeli. He will be officially presented to the public during the release party of the new album 'THE X EXPERIMENT' in Rome on February 16th, 2014 at Jailbreak Live Club."
The band's new album "The X Experiment" was released last month, and you can check out the song "Last Solution" at this location. More...
Dragonhammer Streaming New Track "Last Solution"
Italian power metal act Dragonhammer, featuring Kaledon drummer Massimiliano Santori, is streaming the new track "Last Solution." The song appears on the new album "The X Experiment," which drops today via My Kingdom Music.
Guest appearances on the album include: guitarist Francesco Fareri (Jeff Loomis/Vitalij Kuprij/Virtual Mind), vocalist Roberto Tiranti (Labyrinth/A Perfect Day), vocalist Titta Tani (Ashent/Phoenix Rising/Takayoshi Ohmura/ex-DGM) and drummer David Folchitto (Stormlord/Screaming Banshee/Prophilax).
Check out "Last Solution" here: More...
Dragonhammer Reveals Full Album Details
The new Dragonhammer album "The X Experiment" is almost ready to be released via My Kingdom Music this coming December 3rd, 2013.
According to the band, the album is "an explosive mix of power, epic, and progressive metal in the real Dragonhammer tradition and style, and is based on a great futuristic concept, a modern fantastic story set in a post-nuclear world where chaos reigns and humanity does not believe in anything…"
The album will feature special guests Francesco Fareri (Jeff Loomis, Vitalij Kuprij, Virtual Mind), Roberto Tiranti (Labyrinth, A.P.D., Mangala Vallis, Ken Hensley’s Live Fire), Titta Tani (Ashent, Phoenix Rising), and David Folchitto (Stormlord, Screaming Banshee).
Pre-orders are available at this location, and the track listing is as follows:
1. It’s Beginning
2. The End Of The World
3. Seek In The Ice
4. The X Experiment
5. Escape
6. My Destiny
7. The Others
8. Follow Your Star
9. Last Solution More...
Dragonhammer Posts New Song Sample
Italian metal act Dragonhammer posted a sample from the new song "The End of the World." The song appears on the band's comeback release "The X Experiment," the first in nearly 10 years ("Time For Expiation" 2004). The album was originally set for release at the end of October, but was pushed back to December 3, 2013 via My Kingdom Music.
"The X Experiment" features guest performances from guitarist Francesco Fareri (Jeff Loomis/Vitalij Kuprij/Virtual Mind), vocalist Roberto Tiranti (Labyrinth/A Perfect Day), vocalist Titta Tani (Ashent/Phoenix Rising/Takayoshi Ohmura/ex-DGM) and drummer David Folchitto (Stormlord/Screaming Banshee/Prophilax).
Check out the sample here: More...
Dragonhammer Announces Guest Musicians
After previously announcing guest collaborations with Francesco Fareri Roberto Tiranti, My Kingdom Music has now checked in with the following statement about more guest spots on the coming Dragonhammer album:
"Other prestigious collaborations have been confirmed for Dragonhammer's new and awaited album 'The X Experiment,' which will come out in December.
"The great singer Titta Tani (Ashent, Phoenix Rising, Takayoshi Ohmura, ex-Dgm, drummer for Goblin and ex-Necrophagia) will perform in a vocal duet in the song 'My Destiny' while the talented drummer David Folchitto (Stormlord, Screaming Banshee, Prophilax) will record drums for the whole album. Wait for something really shattering!
"We also remind you the already anticipated presence of Roberto Tiranti (Labyrinth, A.P.D. Mangala Vallis, Ken Hensley’s Live Fire) and Francesco Fareri (Jeff Loomis, Vitalij Kuprij, Virtual Mind) for what seems to be one of the most awaited Italian releases by the end of this year!" More...
Dragonhammer Announces Guests For New LP
Italian power metal band Dragonhammer announced the guest musicians to appear on the upcoming comeback LP "The X Experiment," which is due out this fall via My Kingdom Music (October 21st). The first is Francesco Fareri (Jeff Loomis/Vitalij Kuprij/Virtual Mind), who plays the solo in the new track "My Destiny." Secondly, Labyrinth/A Perfect Day vocalist Roberto Tiranti provided vocals in the duet with Max Aguzzi in the new song "The End of the World."
More details, including the album's track list and artwork are expected shortly. "The X Experiment" is the first release since the "Time For Expiation" album was issued via Scarlet Records in 2004. The album will see the first studio work for: Massimiliano Santori (drums; Kaledon), guitarist Marco Capuccini and Giulio Cattivera (keyboards, Joking With Fire). More...
Dragonhammer Signs With My Kingdom Music
My Kingdom Music has checked in with the following announcement about inking a deal with Dragonhammer:
"My Kingdom Music is absolutely delighted to announce that they have signed one of the best Italian bands ever: Dragonhammer. The new album titled 'The X Experiment' will be released on October 21st, 9 years after the last band's release.
"The album could be defined an explosive mix of power, epic, and progressive metal in the real Dragonhammer tradition and style, and is based on a great futuristic concept, a modern fantastic story set in a post-nuclear world where the chaos reigns.
"'The X Experiment,' recorded by a completely renewed line-up leaded by the talent of Gae Amodio and Max Aguzzi, will have great special guests of international level and we are sure will sign the return to the glorious past of a historical reality of the Italian Metal scene.
"The release will be followed and promoted by a series of live shows in Europe. More details and news soon." More...