I was searching around the web to find a deal on a Power Glove for the NES. Unsurprisingly, I didn’t find anything good in that regard, with the piece of shit being either incredibly hard to find, or way over-priced when I DID find it.

But the search wasn’t ENTIRELY fruitless, as I did manage to find something of interest that combines 2 things I love: old-school video game music and Power Metal. What I found was Power Metal band Powerglove.

Read on for a bit more info and a few songs to preview them!

First off, here’s their myspace. You can already hear a few songs on there:
http://www.myspace.com/vgmetal
And on their site you have links to their store to buy CDs(which are not too expensive actually) and other stuff, and a link to iTunes if you want to buy their songs on there.

I’m probably late on learning about them, since they’ve had their myspace account for 4 years already. But better late than never!

So, what they basically do is take old video game tunes, replace the main instruments with badass guitar, and add some double-pedal to the mix. And I’m quite happy that they DIDN’T add lyrics, that would’ve ruined it all.  But they take a lot of liberties with most of the songs and add their own riffs. Some parts don’t really sound exactly like the “source material”, but you still get a similar feel to the old songs anyways, and you can still see similarities. So it’s not exactly covers but re-imaginings.

I do have a minor complaint. Despite most of their songs sounding really great, their costumes look like crap… It’s probably intentional, but damn they look stupid when they’re performing live with those exaggerated armors and all…

So, here are a few of my favorites!

Vanquish the horrible night (various Castlevania songs)

So Sexy Robotnik (obviously classic Sonic music)

Red wings over Baron (just because I really like FF4)

Metal Kombat for the Mortal Man (even though I don’t like mortal kombat, some of the music is pretty good)

And to add to all that, they’re currently recording a new album… Nice. It’s gonna have Johnny Quest, Under The Sea from The Little Mermaid (I can’t WAIT to hear that !!!!!!), Inspector Gadget, some Winnie the Pooh song, This Is Halloween (from Nightmare Before Christmas), the Flintstones, X-men and Pokemon (the theme song from the anime). Not really video game oriented this time, but still a fun little list of songs there. Actually, they also have another new album in the works, other than this one, which will be fully video game based (the only track they mentionned for this one is Snake Man from Megaman 3, which may or may not make it on there depending on how they like the sound when it’s done). So 2 new albums soon? Hell yeah!

So yeah… this was a pretty short post, but I wanted to talk about them since I really like their music. If you know any other bands of the sort don’t hesitate to tell me, I love discovering new music(as long as it doesn’t suck, of course).

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