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 35-2026: Jupiter – The Pantheon -Age of Heroes-
Resilience is Jupiter’s biggest virtue. Ever since their 2013 debut album ‘Classical Element‘ completely reignited my love for symphonic power metal, they have dealt with multiple setbacks that would have killed many other bands, and still come out on top. They did test their fanbase’s patience sometimes. Although a handful…
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Album of the Week 34-2026: Triosphere – Oceans Above, Stars Below
Whatever happened to Triosphere? It’s a question I genuinely asked myself many times over the twelve years since their last album ‘The Heart of the Matter’ was released. Occasional activity checks proved that they had not broken up, but when ‘Monster’s Ball’, the first single of ‘Oceans Above, Stars Below’,…
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Album of the Week 33-2026: Flotsam and Jetsam – Rats in the Temple
Even though Flotsam and Jetsam is a classic thrash metal band, they are actually experiencing their heyday right now. Since their current line-up materialized about a decade ago, they have released highlight after highlight, and ‘Rats in the Temple’ is no different. Admittedly, the first two singles off the album…
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Album of the Week 32-2026: Lex Legion – Lex Legion
My dislike of King Diamond’s voice and – to a lesser extent – poor album-spanning storytelling is fairly well-documented on these pages, but despite that, the music on his albums is right up my alley. So theoretically, an album by a band of four musicians that played with him during…
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Album of the Week 29-2026: Galneryus – A Cry from the Sky Above
Galneryus is a band that constantly straddles the line between knowing what they are good at and delivering just that on one side, and getting too comfortable with their own style and sounding like they are on auto-pilot on the other. When they are on the former side of the…
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Album of the Week 27-2026: Deep Purple – Splat!
Superlatives are typically thrown around when veteran bands release new albums. In fact, Deep Purple did it themselves, calling ‘Splat!’ their heaviest album in a long time. Whether that is actually true is in the ear of the beholder, but since ‘Splat!’ is one of their harder-rocking and most focused…
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Album of the Week 22-2026: Eternal Evil – Forever Feared
One of the most irritatingly untrue opinions frequently encountered in my work as a music journalist is that there are hardly any good young bands anymore. This was never true, but one thing that especially stands out lately is just how much young talent there is in the old school…
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Album of the Week 21-2026: Leatherwitch – First Spell
Given the fact that Marta Gabriel is able to play just about every instrument on any given album, it was only a matter of time she would do just that after Crystal Viper called it quits last year. Though I have to say that it was quite a surprise that…
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Album of the Week 20-2026: Icarus – Rising from the Ashes
Icarus reportedly was the first ever power metal band in Peru, but through a combination of factors – the most problematic of which being that there isn’t a proper music business to support a niche style like power metal there – they never really got around to releasing a proper…