People who say we play too fast are probably right, but guess what? There's a million other bands that play slow. "Bands always say, 'Our new album is faster and heavier,' and then it's never true, so we're not gonna say that. The last three albums have been very much guitar-orientated, and this one probably will be as well, but I want to try to do some extra colouring in with the vocals." - ZP Theart "There isn't much to change, but yet there is. You just try to improve in every area." - Sam Totman But hopefully the melodies will be nicer, the guitar solos will be better, the production will be better. The album is so far the only DragonForce album to be released in a vinyl LP format. In 2009, when DragonForce was live at Graspop, ZP Theart performed while wearing a cowboy hat. " Reasons to Live" was released as a single on July 2, 2009, almost a year following the release of " Heroes of Our Time". Frédéric Leclercq announded that they may release a live DVD in 2009-2010. The music video for " The Last Journey Home" premiered on the XBOX Live Network on January 21, 2009. This song also holds the honor being the very first and, currently, only unedited song recorded by the band with a length of less than five minutes, although due to it being a re-recorded version of "Feel the Fire" by Sam Totman's side project, Shadow Warriors. This honour now goes to the Special Edition track Strike of the Ninja, which is 3:18. Prior to Ultra Beatdown's release, the band's shortest recorded song, (excluding " Invocation of Apocalyptic Evil", the 14-second instrumental intro track of the band's Valley of the Damned album) was the song Dawn Over a New World, also being one of the band's least popular songs, ( Sonic Firestorm), which clocked in at 5:13. Ultra Beatdown features DragonForce's excessive use of electronic sounds in the album's songs, especially E.P.M., and Heroes of Our Time. Also, the album's songs, The Fire Still Burns, Reasons to Live, and Heartbreak Armageddon are featured in METAL INVASION 25 podcast, also Heroes of Our Time being featured in METAL INVASION 24. On August 18, 2008, the album also became available for streaming on the band's MySpace page. On August 14, 2008, Ultra Beatdown was made available for pre-order in the DragonForce official web store.
The album's songs " Heartbreak Armageddon", " The Fire Still Burns", and " A Flame For Freedom" were all played on 106.1 Rock Radio during an interview with the band's lead singer, ZP Theart on July 15, 2008. Four days later, on July 8, 2008, Heroes of Our Time's music video was released onto their MySpace profile. On July 4, 2008, Ultra Beatdown's first single, " Heroes of Our Time", was posted on their MySpace profile.
Mark Howe - business management (Entertainment Accounting International Ltd.Ultra Beatdown is Dragonforce's fourth album, released Augin Japan through JVC and on Augworldwide through Roadrunner Records and Universal Music.Penny Ganz - legal representation (P Ganz & Co.Peter Dempset - tour management (Podie Ponk Productions, London).Josh Kline - agency representation (North America, with the Agency Group USA Ltd.).Julie Brown, John Eriksson - live photography.Lindsay Dawson - backing vocals, harsh vocals.Dave Mackintosh - drums, backing vocals.Vadim Pruzhanov - keyboards, piano, backing vocals, mixing.Sam Totman - lead & rhythm guitars, backing vocals, mixing.Herman Li - lead & rhythm guitars, backing vocals, mixing, engineering, artwork.ZP Theart - lead vocals, backing vocals.Total Length: 62:27 Personnel Band members
Lost Souls in Endless Time ( Special Edition Bonus Track), Length: 6:22 Storming the Burning Fields, Length: 5:20 Through the Fire and Flames, Length: 7:24 Also, the album had Clive Nolan and Lindsay Dawson as guest backing vocals. The mastering was performed by Eberhard Köhler at Powerplay Mastering in Berlin, Germany. It was then mixed at Thin Ice Studios by Karl Groom, Sam Totman, Herman Li and Vadim Pruzhanov and engineered by Karl Groom and Herman Li. Despite this, Dragonforce decided to keep this recording and left it on the final album version. The recording of Inhuman Rampage took place at Thin Ice Studios in Surrey and LamerLuser Studios in London between March and September 2005 and during the recording of "Through the Fire and Flames", lead guitarist Herman Li snapped one of his guitar strings.
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