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 07-2023: Gargoyle – Kuromitten
Looking back now, ‘Kuromitten’ turned out to be a bit of a turning point in Gargoyle’s career. It came off the back of a string of albums that – with the notable exception of ‘Kemonomichi’ – sounded as close to Gargoyle going through the motions as the band would ever…
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Album of the Week 06-2023: Cradle of Filth – Cruelty and the Beast
Full disclosure: when I first heard ‘Cruelty and the Beast’ as an early teenager, I absolutely hated it. Partly because I did not understand it, but its messy production annoyed the hell out of me and may have planted the seed for generally disliking blastbeats to this day. It took…
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Album of the Week 05-2023: Rotting Christ – Aealo
Rotting Christ is a band whose music has transcended multiple things throughout the years. Most notably their dumb band name and breaking out of the Greek metal scene when it was in its embryonic stages, but in a way, they also transcended their black metal roots to create something fairly…
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Album of the Week 03-2023: Onmyo-za – Ryūō Dōji
Onmyo-za usually releases a new album every year or so. ‘Ryūō Dōji’ is their first album in nearly five years, presumably largely due to health issues that affected the hearing and vocal cords of singer Kuroneko. Fortunately, she sounds incredible here, though that could also be the result of ‘Ryūō…
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Best of 2022: The Albums
Let’s start the introduction to the list of my favorite albums of the year by stating the obvious: 2022 was the greatest year for new music in a long time. It took a while before the music industry got there. For a while during the first half of the year,…
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Album of the Week 51-2022: Agent Steel – Omega Conspiracy
When ‘Omega Conspiracy’ was released, it was not just a comeback after well over a decade of inactivity, it was a reinvention of what Agent Steel could sound like. Not that the album was a complete departure from what the band did before, but Agent Steel presents itself as a…
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Album of the Week 50-2022: Ashes Of Ares – Emperors And Fools
‘Emperors And Fools’ is the sound of Ashes Of Ares finally living up to its potential. It is not a masterpiece, but it is the first release of theirs that makes me somewhat confident they may have one in them. My teenage obsession with Iced Earth was at least as…
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Album of the Week 49-2022: Anthrax – For All Kings
In my earlier review of ‘Spreading The Disease’, I argued that I am not sure whether Anthrax deserves to be considered part of the so-called “Big Four” of thrash metal. That has nothing to do with Testament selling more albums outside North America, Exodus being more influential or OverKill’s seniority.…
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Album of the Week 48-2022: İdil Çağatay – Ateşler İçinde
The powerful, emotional voice of İdil Çağatay was introduced to me through Istanbul-based all-female heavy metal band Kırmızı, of which she was the frontwoman and main songwriter. Unfortunately, Kırmızı slowly faded away after the release of their excellent album ‘İsyan’, but Çağatay fortunately is still active as a musician. Moreover,…
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