Dragons Power Up - Nomad World Pub in Minneapolis, MN - June 3, 2007
[photo by Toby Cryns]
The night before the members of Dragons Power Up met, they all had dreams about dragons. After learning of this coincidence, one of the members held up a clenched fist and yelled, “Dragons power up!” And so was born a band of mythical proportions.
[photo by Toby Cryns]
I went out to the Nomad World Pub in Minneapolis a couple of Sundays ago to see Hazel Strange play, but I was unexpectedly treated to the prog-rock stylings of the charismatic Dragons Power Up. These guys really bring the heavy rock, pushing the distortion to ear-pleasing levels that would make many death metal bands proud. But these guys aren’t death metal. They are rock. And their record, This Way to Gunshire…, is testament to their fun, distorted, rock-and-roll view of the world. Consisting of enough twists and turns to get even the most gallant knight lost on his way to save a princess, This Way to Gunshire… is a great listen and is worthy of any dragons that were slain in its production.
