"Fury of the Storm" is the second track from the Sonic Firestorm

Sonic Firestorm

-Personnel:DragonForce*ZP Theart – lead and backing vocals*Herman Li – lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars*Sam Totman – rhythm and acoustic guitars*Vadim Pruzhanov – keyboards, piano, additional acoustic guitars*Adrian Lambert – bass guitar...

album by power metal

Power metal

Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. The term refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a...

 band DragonForce

DragonForce

DragonForce are an English power metal band from London. Formed in 1999, the group is known for its long and fast guitar solos, fantasy-based lyrics, and electronic sounds in their music to add to their retro video game-influenced sound. Guitarists Herman Li and Sam Totman are the only two...

. Released in 2005, it failed to appear on any of the major record chart

Record chart

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s. It was the band's first single. According to the Last.fm

Last.fm

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 rankings, "Fury of the Storm" is one of the band's most popular songs.

The song is known for its extremely fast guitar playing, with one reviewer calling it the "fastest guitar work I've ever heard."

Origin

The song's origin is unknown, however it is rumored that the song was inspired when, during a player versus player

Player versus player

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 match on the massive multi player online role playing PC game World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft

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, the participants used high-ranking characters. It was written by Sam Totman

Sam Totman

Ian Samuel "Sam" Totman is a guitarist and main songwriter for the power metal band DragonForce. Totman was born in England, but moved to New Zealand at an early age...

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Popular culture

The song is featured on the music video game

Music video game

A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs...

 Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock is a music video game and the sixth main entry in the Guitar Hero series for the PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 consoles. The game was released September 24, 2010 in Europe, September 28, 2010 in North America and September 29, 2010 in Australia...

. It is the band's fifth song to be featured on a Guitar Hero

Guitar Hero

Guitar Hero is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by RedOctane for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It is the first entry in the Guitar Hero series. Guitar Hero was released on November 8, 2005 in North America, April 7, 2006 in Europe and June 15, 2006 in...

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