Gothic Metal Reviews
The thick, distorted guitar tones of heavy metal combined with the dark, romantic overtones of gothic rock – with the occasional poppy bombast of stadium rock – what’s not to like? There are plenty of gothic rock reviews on Kevy Metal, but the Album of the Week reviews about the releases of gothic metal bands outnumber them, because they tend to stick around for longer and release more than two or three worthwhile albums. All gothic metal reviews published on Kevy Metal can be found right here.
Not having properly tagged my reviews until a couple of years in, I may have written some gothic metal reviews that don’t show up here. Using the search bar at the bottom of the page is highly recommended if you are looking for something specific.
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Album of the Week 51-2025: Stratuz – Osculum Pacis
Being one of the first extreme metal bands in Venezuela would have been enough to cement Stratuz’ legacy. A testament to their artistry is the fact that they kept evolving. Granted, there were nearly twenty-two years between ‘Osculum Pacis‘ and its direct predecessor ‘Spirit Seduction‘, and such a long time…
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Album of the Week 18-2025: Deathless Legacy – Damnatio Aeterna
Honesty forces me to say that I didn’t quite know what to expect from Deathless Legacy’s sixth album ‘Damnatio Aeterna’. 2022’s ‘Mater Larvarum’ didn’t quite resonate with me as well as their other releases, but it is possible that its larger emphasis on vaguely Powerwolfy pop metal than usual was…
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Album of the Week 16-2025: Epica – Aspiral
Like ‘Omega‘ before it, ‘Aspiral’ proves that changing a band’s approach can have a significant impact, even if there aren’t any big stylistic changes. Epica is still a symphonic metal band with fairly big arrangements on ‘Aspiral’, but it feels less like every element of the production is fighting for…
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Best of 2024: The Albums
In all honesty, I was not prepared for 2024 to be a year with such a great number of amazing new releases. In a way, it was great timing professionalizing the website halfway through a year with this release schedule, though it would be a blatant lie to chalk that…
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Album of the Week 40-2024: Cemetery Skyline – Nordic Gothic
With their debut album ‘Nordic Gothic’, Cemetery Skyline has proven that they understand the first rule of starting a new band while the bands the members are known for are still active: make it sound different. The members of Cemetery Skyline are all primarily known for their work in extreme…
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Album of the Week 19-2024: My Dying Bride – A Mortal Binding
After two decades of injecting various degrees of death metal and gothic metal into their sound, My Dying Bride has pretty much been a doom metal band on their last couple of albums. Sure, the atmosphere on ‘A Mortal Binding’ can still be somewhat gothic in nature – though nowhere…
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Album of the Week 15-2024: Dool – The Shape of Fluidity
On the surface, Dool seems to operate in similar territory as most of the dark rock bands that have been popping up slowly but steadily in recent years. Not unlike the gothic rock acts that inspired those bands, however, most of them manage to release one captivating album, after which…
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Album of the Week 26-2023: Stravaganzza – Sentimientos
The symphonic metal landscape has the potential to be so much more than it actually is. Somehow, the bigger bands end up doing similar things: sacrificing complexity in the songwriting for more bombastic arrangements, the female vocals are clean and operatic, the male vocals are growled or screamed. Spain’s Stravaganzza…
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Album of the Week 09-2023: Crescent Lament – Land of Lost Voices
Even now that increasingly fewer people let language barriers stand in the way of exploring music with non-English lyrics, it seems extreme metal bands from East Asia have a somewhat easier time finding their foreign audiences than metal bands with cleaner vocals. The somewhat proggy and very folky heavy metal…
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