Power Glove (band)
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| Origin | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Genres | Synthwave, electronic |
| Website | powergloveaudio |
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Power Glove are an Australian electronic music and synthwave duo from Melbourne, Victoria, named after the Nintendo Power Glove. They provided the soundtrack to the 1980s-influenced retro-futuristic video game, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (April 2013). The soundtrack met with critical acclaim.
Power Glove were formed in Melbourne as the electronic music, synthwave duo (under pseudonyms) of Michael Biehn and Michael Dudikoff. In reality, the duo consists of brothers Jarome and Joel Harmsworth.
The duo's music gained widespread attention with the track "Hunters" featured in the 2011 Canadian independent film, Hobo with a Shotgun and the track "Vengeance" was used in the 2012 film, The ABCs of Death. Their first extended play, the four-track EP 1 (a.k.a. So Bad), was released in January, 2012. Tracks by the group have appeared in various artists' compilation albums.
The duo provided the soundtrack to Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (April 2013), which is a 1980s-influenced retro-futuristic video game. Michael Langley of CraveOnline website described that Dean Evans of Ubisoft contacted the group and asked if they would create the soundtrack to the game.
Since releasing their second EP, EPII in 2015 the duo has scored the Blood Dragon themed iteration of the Trials video game series, Trials of the Blood Dragon which was released in June, 2016 by Ubisoft.
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