DragonForce have released ‘Neverending Nightmare’, the second single from their 10th studio album, the self-titled ‘DragonForce’, due on 19 March 2027 via Napalm Records. The six-plus-minute track is currently available exclusively on YouTube with an official video and arrives on all streaming platforms on Thursday 12 November.
The album is the band’s first with Alissa White-Gluz, the former Arch Enemy vocalist whose arrival was announced on 6 May 2026. It is also the first with Alessio Garavello, who took over vocals for the album and tour after Marc Hudson announced on 19 September that he was stepping back indefinitely due to ongoing tinnitus, though he remains involved with the band. Guitarist Billy Wilkins, who had filled in for Hudson at earlier shows, was confirmed as a full-time member three days later. The line-up is completed by co-founder Herman Li and Sam Totman on guitars, bassist Alicia Vigil and drummer Gee Anzalone.
The album was produced by Jens Bogren and recorded across the US, UK, Canada and Sweden. Lead single ‘Hunger of the Beast’ arrived in September with a live performance video. Li has called the record “unlike any DRAGONFORCE album you’ve ever heard, and unlike any metal albums out there”, adding: “We’re not trying to be commercial. We’re not trying to be popular. We’re not trying to be famous.” White-Gluz said: “I think this new combo of speed and ferocity is refreshing and exciting.”
‘DragonForce’ will follow 2024’s ‘Warp Speed Warriors’, also released through Napalm. Founded in London in 1999, the band earned a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance for ‘Heroes of Our Time’, the lead single from 2008’s ‘Ultra Beatdown’.
The single arrives days before the band launch the ‘Inhuman Rampage 2026 – 20th Anniversary Tour’ in North America, celebrating two decades of ‘Inhuman Rampage’, the album featuring ‘Through the Fire and Flames’, the band’s best-known song thanks to ‘Guitar Hero III’. The 22-date run with Ensiferum and Rhapsody of Fire runs from 13 November to 13 December and is White-Gluz’s first tour with the band.
In spring 2027, DragonForce head out on a 22-date European tour with Visions of Atlantis and Wings of Steel, running from 9 April in Paris to 8 May in Manchester. The UK leg includes London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on 6 May, KK’s Steel Mill in Wolverhampton on 7 May and Manchester Academy on 8 May.