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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Check Out Joad Manuel Jiménez’ ‘Retrospective’
One of the best things to come out of Venezuelan Metal Season for me was befriending Joad Manuel Jiménez. For those of you who don’t know: Joad was the singer of Venezuelan heavy metal pioneers Arkangel from 1994 to 2002, and then again from 2015 to 2016. After leaving Arkangel…
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Album of the Week 18-2026: Sins of Shadows – The Last Frontier
Although their band name brings one of my favorite Symphony X songs to mind, Sins of Shadows isn’t as proggy as that connection may suggest. There is some pre-Dream Theater prog on ‘The Last Frontier’, but it is clear that strong melodic themes, well-crafted songs and an overall narrative quality…
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Album of the Week 17-2026: Saratoga – En Estado Puro
When guitarist Jero Ramiro announced his second departure from Spanish heavy metal pioneers Saratoga earlier this year, that was cause for concern for me, as I’m not the biggest fan of the direction the band took during his absence. Unlike last time, however, his replacement isn’t trying to turn Saratoga…
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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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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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