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The Adventures Of Powerglove @ New York Comic Con 2010

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Warning: This blog posting is rated “I.I.” for “Incredibly Immature”.  Now with you all warned and advised we can get down to the business at hand and that is to explore a little deeper into the past weekends adventuring which was the one and only NY Comic Con & Anime Festival.  This massive event which was held at the Javits center over the course of three days will be discussed in full in some future blog narratives so please stay tuned for them.  This particular article is to discuss the appearance of those Video Game Metal maniacs – The Mighty Powerglove who were in attendance at the Con and wreaking havoc at both their own booth and around the exhibition hall of the convention itself.  PiercingMetal.com was covering the convention and spent some time with The Glove and proudly present to you some of the more memorable moments in words and images.

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Since there is a good chance that you are not yet aware of just who Powerglove is, let me explain that they are considered “Video Game Metal” and came into many peoples attention by playing the themes of popular video games such as “Tetris”, “Sonic The Hedge Hog” and “Mario Brothers”.  These songs and many others were amped up to the Nth degree and given interesting titles such as “So Sexy Robotnic”, “Mario Minor”, “Vanquish The Horrible Night” and well, you get the point. You can find all of these songs on the bands independent release Metal Kombat for the Mortal Man but I recommend that you get one quick before fame goes to their heads and a copy costs you hundreds upon hundreds of dollars on E-bay.

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Behold – Powerglove

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E1 Music Signs North American Deal with Video Game Metal Masters Powerglove

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The Press Release:
Boston video game metal masters POWERGLOVE have signed a North American deal with E1 Music. The band will release a new full-length album this fall.

“We are all extremely proud to announce E1 as our new label,” the group says in a statement. “And really, what better label for us than one who is home to both IN FLAMES and the ‘Sesame Street’ catalogue?”

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POWERGLOVE continues, “We spoke with many great labels about releasing this album, yet E1 has always felt like the best place for our brand of ridiculous nerd metal. We hereby do solemnly swear that with E1, POWERGLOVE will bring you even more explosions, candy, and nostalgia-gasms. No POWERGLOVE, no powerlove!”

Adds E1 Music Vice President of Metal Scott Givens, “POWERGLOVE is the perfect weapon to help in our quest for world domination here at E1!”
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“Total Pwnage” (re-release) by Powerglove

Artist: Powerglove
Title: “Total Pwnage” (re-release)
Label: Independent Artist
Release Date: 9/2/2008
Genre: Video Game Metal
Rating: 4/5

It seems as though your Folk, Math, Oriental, and Neo-Classical Power Metal have a new ally joining their ranks with the arrival of Video Game Metal and this amusing new genre is served up by a band that calls themselves Powerglove. The bands demo is entitled “Total Pwnage” and its essentially a number of popular video game themes reworked into a Power Metal framework. The CD begins with the themes from Tetris which is oddly enough the only game that I have ever played that the band tinkers with and it’s very interesting to hear as it’s rather well-executed in terms of the musical compositions. The band is a four piece with twin lead guitarists Chris Marchiel and Alex Berkson and finds drumming delivered by Bassil Silver-Hajo. The bass on this demo is done with a session player listed only as Spalding. The production is rather sound for a demo recording which was a nice surprise since its shows that the band is interested in their music making a difference. The guys certainly can play which was a positive and one that might actually make this kind of thing an unexpected hit on a much larger scale. Outside of the themes from Tetris I enjoyed both the Power Rangers and Final Fantasy VII numbers and it’s the kind of recording that you will play a couple of times in sequence since it’s a lot of fun. I wish the band well with this newfangled sound and who knows – they might be on to something here.
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