Well that took some time to come out. It’s been teased, and got release dates and delays, but we can finally listen to it.

If you don’t know about Powerglove, here’s a lowdown: They’re an awesome band that covers oldschool video game music, but with a great power metal style. They’re probably the best band in the video game music cover sub-genre. Not only do the cover the songs, but they take the tunes and they add in their own style and compositions, making the songs not only recognizable, but also making them their own thing at the same time.

This time, rather than doing video game music, they went through their childhood memories of watching cartoons and are doing covers of their theme songs, which is a fun idea. And for the first time they have a record label for their album, so you’ll be able to find it at local music stores, which is pretty awesome.

So read on and see if they’re as good with cartoon songs as they are with video game tunes!

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jobocan metal, Music, Review, TV shows

I just came back from the live Iron Maiden show at the Ottawa Bluefest. I’m generally not much of a showgoer, but when I learned Iron Maiden were coming to Ottawa, I just had to go. And they have Dream Theater playnig just before them for this tour, which is pretty cool.

It was my first time seeing them live, so here’s a brief recounting of my experience seeing the awesomest band in the world live!

Read on! (Note: there will be spoilers, so if you’d rather have the setlist be a surprise for when you see the show yourself, don’t read the first 3 paragraphs of the Iron Maiden segment)
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jobocan impressions, metal, Music

Helloween is an AWESOME band… or at least were. In recent years their songs haven’t been nearly as good as their first few albums. And their 2000 album The Dark Ride had a few really good songs too. They did some great stuff, providing some great songs in the Power Metal genre. I mean, I Want Out is amongst the best metal songs ever.

When I saw this album at the store, I thought it would be a great idea. Orchestrated music, guest artists, and “re-imagined” versions of some of their best songs for the band’s 25th year anniversary. How could it go wrong?

Well… read on and see how bad it gets!
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jobocan metal, Music, Review

I love Power Metal. And one of the better bands representing the genre is Gamma Ray. They always have great guitar, great bass, great drumming, and some of the best singing voices in the genre. They’re one of those bands that didn’t lower in overall quality as the years went by, so all of their albums are really good.

Their previous album, Land of the Free II, was incredible, with none of the songs being bad, and most of them being excellent. It was truly something to behold. So obviously I was quite hyped up for this release.

Now, does To The Metal live up to their previous effort, or does it fall short?
Read on and see!
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jobocan metal, Music, Review