Powerglove guitarist Chris Marichiel is featured in a new interview with The Devil Music. An excerpt is available below.

Q: For somebody who is unaware of your band how would you best describe the type of music Powerglove plays?

Marichiel: "We take music from video games, cartoons and movies and remix and rearrange them into instrumental power metal songs. Some of our songs are faithful to the original but in a different style and context, some are 50/50 original riffs and theme music, and some are radical departures from the source material. Since we are mostly instrumental we can combine other kinds of metal (namely black and death metal) into the original sound pretty easily. I think we have developed a pretty recognizable sound from the last two albums that involves us piling up layers of harmony and detail and wrapping up progginess and shredding with ear candy transitions and melodies."

Q: On the new album Saturday Morning Apocalypse due out any day now, you guys featured guest vocalist Tony Kakko from SONATA ARCTICA. How did that collaboration come about?

Marichiel: "He decided that singing the Pokemon theme song with us was the most elegant way to destroy his credibility and commit career suicide, so we were glad to help him out and wish him luck in all his future endeavors. But really: On the last day of touring with Sonata Arctica, we had a big farewell ceremony with lots of pictures and hugs and Tony mentioned to us that he had some free time after the tour and since we were recording at that time he wanted to try singing on a song for us. We of naturally said yes and after thinking about it Pokemon was the obvious choice for a full song, and we also asked him to do the 'The Simpsoooooons…' intro to our Simpsons Theme. He not only went to town on the Pokemon song and added in tons of his own harmonies and vocal ideas, but also composed a vocal section for the Simpsons on his own which we ended up increasing the length of the song to accommodate it. Basically he’s the man."

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Full length audio clips from Powerglove's new album, Saturday Morning Apocalypse, featuring Tony Kakko as a guest vocalist have surfaced on YouTube. Check them out below.

A full track listing of their power metal renditions of 80's cartoon themes can be found below:

'X-Men'

'Gotta Catch Em All'

'The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest'

'This Is Halloween'

'Batman'

'Transformers'

'Inspector Gadget'

'Heffalumps and Woozles (Winnie The Pooh)'

'The Simpsons' (featuring Tony Kakko)

'The Flinstones'

'Gotta Catch Em All' (featuring Tony Kakko)

“We are Powerglove and we are here to f*ck with your childhood!” proclaims the band at the beginning of their live shows. After finding success mining the brains of the A.D.D. driven video game generation with songs like 'Tetris', Powerglove have set their sights on the inner child in all of us. To this end, the band has set its blasters from stun to kill; it’s target: the world! The band has recently completed two separate, successful, tours with HAMMERFALL and SONATA ARCTICA. Watch for them this summer as they continue to add dates for video game festivals and live performances.

Powerglove is composed of four battle-hardened rockers out of Boston, MA: Alex Berkson, Bassil Silver-Hajo, Chris Marchiel, and Nick Avila. This band shreds metal renditions of everything from old school 8- bit video game classics to contemporary blockbusters, all with a heavy metal attitude - and there's nothing you can do to stop them!

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