70000tons of Metal 2025 Artist Spotlight: Powerglove

Countdown to 2026: 24 Days

SOOOOOOON, a word 70000tons of Metal cruisers know all too well, love it or hate it. 70000tons of Metal, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, returns for its 2026 edition from January 29 – February 2, 2026, setting sail from Miami, Florida to Nassau, The Bahamas aboard Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas. For booking and full details are available on the official website. Read our essential packing guide here. Check out the testimonials from several 2025 artists at this location.

70000tons 2025 Round 13: ARTIST 34 of 61 Powerglove

Stats

2025 Voyage:

Dates: January 30 – February 3, 2025
Destination: Miami to Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Ship: Independence of the Seas

Artist Spotlight

Band: Powerglove
Number of 70000tons Appearances: 2 (2017, 2025)
Set 1: January 31, 2025 – Star Lounge – 5:00 pm
Set 2: February 1, 2025 – Studio B – Ice Rink – 10:10 pm
Attended: Set 1 – No, Set 2 – Yes
Country: Boston, MA
Genre: Video Game Metal
Latest Album: The Super Smash Bros. EP (2024)
Standout Moment(s):
Powerglove, one of metal’s most unique video game–nostalgia instrumental acts, made their grand return to the metal seas in 2025. Leveling up, we caught the band’s Studio B performance, complete with a full backdrop and sound cues pulled straight from retro video games, largely centered around the iconic Nintendo era. The room quickly filled with metalheads dressed as Pokémon characters, and what have you, waving inflatables and moshing to glorified sounds of the past, reimagined with modern, heavy energy. It was fun, chaotic, and easily one of the boat’s standout “fun bands,” offering a much-needed break from the surrounding black, death, and doom debauchery.

Powerglove – Set 2

Latest Powerglove News

Powerglove wrapped up 2025 with two, more-or-less back-to-back tours, one supporting Sonata Arctica, and the other joining Nekrogoblikon. As of 2026, there aren’t any shows scheduled, nor are there any signs of new music just yet. With a strong end to 2025, we’re sure they will return to the road soon enough.

What is the Artist Spotlight?

Well, it’s more than a review of their performance; as 70000tons goes, each band is a headliner, and we treat each one as such, giving them their own spread, discussing who they are and what they’ve been up to since the cruise. Each spotlight coincides with any updates from 70000tons organizers (if any), leading to days before setting sail. An extensive coverage like no other.

70000tons 2026 Lineup 52 out of 60:

Ad Infinitum
Amorphis
Anthrax
Arkona
Beast in Black
Bloodred Hourglass
Cemetery Skyline
Darkane
Dark Tranquillity
Dødheimsgard
Dragonland
Dust Bolt
Eluveitie
Ereb Altor
Firewind
Gama Bomb
Groza
Haggard
Harakiri For The Sky
Heathen
Hiraes
Hirax
Hour of Penance
Ignea
Illdisposed
Illumishade
In Mourning
Insomnium
Izegrim
Kamelot
Kanonenfieber
Orden Ogan
Paradise Lost
Persefone
Rhapsody of Fire
Royal Hunt
Satan
Saturnus
Seven Spires
Skeletal Remains
Skyclad
Soen
Soilwork
Suidakra
Tribulation
Tyr
Vader
VBO
Vio-lence
Wind Rose
Wolf
Xandria