HERMAN LI

Q: YOU HAVE A VERY DEFINITE MUSICAL AND TECHNICAL STYLE. I’D LIKE TO KNOW IF, WHEN NO ONE’S WATCHING, YOU PLAY OTHER STYLES. MAYBE SOME BLUES, JAZZ OR REGGAE?

—DAVID ALVAREZ

I will play blues or maybe jam along to a fusion album when I’m at home, but I don’t see myself as a guitarist that is most effective in these genres. I don’t think I can do a million different styles effectively. I am a specialist in my own weird guitar sound.

Q: After five or so years of following DragonForce, I’ve looked up live performances for pretty much all your songs, but I haven’t found any trace of one of the fan favorites (and one of my favorites), “Cry for Eternity.” Why is this — and will we see you play it soon?

—Michael Thewlis

We’ve never played it live, but we actually just started rehearsing that song for the next tour as a lot of fans have been asking for it. That song came out in 2006. It’s an eight-minute song with a million guitar parts. The joke when we were learning