Heavy Metal Reviews
Heavy metal in all its varieties, and from all eras, is the bread and butter of Kevy Metal, if the name of the site had not given this away yet. All Album of the Week reviews about heavy metal albums published on Kevy Metal can be found right here.
Since I didn’t start properly tagging my reviews until a couple of years in, these aren’t all the heavy metal reviews I have done over the years. If you are looking for something specific, you can always search by band name or release title using the search bar at the bottom of the page.
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Album of the Week 12-2026: Tomorrow’s Outlook – Black Waves
The previous Tomorrow’s Outlook album ‘A Voice Unheard‘ is nearly eight years old at this point, so for a while, the question was whether the Norwegian band was ever going to deliver on the substantial promise shown on that album. Fortunately, ‘Black Waves’ takes everything that was good about ‘A…
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Tools for Discovery: Kat Albums Ranked
One of the most idiosyncratic metal bands of their era, Kat has a fairly unique sound that despite their wide-reaching influence – especially in their native country of Poland – has never quite been imitated. Conventional wisdom will state that Kat plays a blend of heavy metal and thrash metal,…
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Album of the Week 10-2026: Assignment – With the End Comes Silence
Metal is at its best when it doesn’t quite neatly fit a certain subgenre. It makes it more difficult to market, sure, but it also accounts for the most satisfying listening experiences, because bands that don’t care about genre limitations tend to make more interesting songwriting choices. This is certainly…
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Album of the Week 09-2026: Triumpher – Piercing the Heart of the World
With a lot of the focus of the music industry shifting away from actually making albums, a band releasing high-quality albums at the pace Greece’s Triumpher does is quite the impressive feat. Their third album ‘Piercing the Heart of the World’ releases two days before Triumpher’s debut album ‘Storming the…
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Album of the Week 08-2026: Lovebites – Outstanding Power
And with the fifth full-length album in Lovebites’ alphabetical discography, we are already in the second half of the alphabet, in the year that the band celebrates its tenth anniversary, no less. In those years, the Japanese quintet released a lot of excellent European-styled power metal, though I don’t think…
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EP of the Week 06.5-2026: Superblood – Enter a New Phase
Just when I thought Eizo Sakamoto had disappeared completely from the rock and metal scene after most of his post-Anthem projects failed to make much of a lasting impression, he was suddenly announced as Superblood’s new frontman with the fantastic new single ‘Enter a New Phase’ a few months ago.…
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Album of the Week 06-2026: Leatherhead – Violent Horror Stories
With their 2024 self-titled debut album, Greek old school metalheads Leatherhead already made quite the impression on me, though my overall opinion of that album remains that it shows some potential that was yet to be realized. In all honesty, though, I did not expect them to live up to…
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Album of the Week 05-2026: Megadeth – Megadeth
Farewell albums tend to aim for going out with a bang, but just as frequently see a band fizzling out. To Dave Mustaine’s credit: apart from the lyrics of closing track ‘The Last Note’, he doesn’t seem to weigh down Megadeth’s self-titled album with any grandiose farewell statements. Instead, he…
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Album of the Week 02-2026: Landsemk – Vence Tus Miedos
One of the handful of Venezuelan bands whose work I enjoyed before starting my research into Venezuelan Metal Season is Landsemk. Their blend of traditional heavy metal, pronounced melodic touches that owe as much to eighties hard rock as they do to power metal, and subtle progressive leanings is catchy,…
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