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 44-2026: Rattlesnakes – Shadows in the Night
While their band name initially fooled me into thinking Rattlesnakes is a raunchy rock ‘n’ roll band, it took less than a minute for me to figure out that ‘Shadows in the Night’ is a very special debut album. This British quintet is very clearly influenced by hard rock, heavy…
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Album of the Week 42-2026: Kat – Death Is Not Enough
It’s very unlikely that the Polish heavy metal scene would be what it is today without the pioneering work of Kat. Their influence reaches far beyond the style of metal they play, and their run of albums from the mid-eighties to the mid-nineties is still rightfully considered legendary. Since the…
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Album of the Week 39-2026: ADX – 13ème Choc
How many bands that have been around for over forty years can say that they are releasing their best material these days? The last three original ADX studio albums have been every bit as good as their classic material, and they somehow manage to maintain their classic heavy/speed metal sound…
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Album of the Week 38-2026: Jero Ramiro – La Cuna del Mal
After Jero Ramiro announced his departure from Saratoga, two things happened that surprised me. First off, Saratoga released one of their finest albums thus far in ‘En Estado Puro‘. This was surprising because Ramiro generally wrote what are my favorite Saratoga songs. Secondly, I did not expect Ramiro to release…
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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…