I just had my first gander at Powerglove‘s recently released album Saturday Morning Apocalypse, and I gotta say that I’m suitably impressed. SMA holds power metally covers of themes from X-Men, Batman, The Simpsons, The Flintstones and Transformers, among others, and they’re all well-executed; most notably, the higher budget afforded by being on a real record label (E1) has allowed the band to execute the spiffed-up production this kind of music needs to come across well. Of course, as I’ve stated before, I believe that a band that exclusively covers videogame and TV music can only be interesting for so long, but it sure is fun for a little while.

My favorite track on the record is easily a cover of the Inspector Gadget theme song. The TV show itself was always entertaining — did any kid growing up in the ’80s watching this show not wish he had bionic appendages? — and of all of those shows, this theme song was always one of the most memorable. Hey, guy in the above video singing “improvised” vocals over it; can we be friends?

Reminder: Powerglove are headlining one of two MetalSucks CMJ Music Marathon showcases on the afternoon of Saturday, October 23rd at Fontana’s in NYC, along with Wetnurse, The Binary Code, Pack of Wolves, Meek is Murder and Batillus. Sailor Jerry Rum will be providing rum mixed drinks for only $3. Come and get drunk and headbang with us!

-VN