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 36-2022: Pentagram – Makina Elektrika
‘Makina Elektrika’ is the first album of new material by Turkish heavy metal giants Pentagram in a decade. But the band hasn’t been sitting still in the intervening years. Most notably, they have reunited with former singers Murat İlkan and Ogün Sanlısoy, as well as guitarist Demir Demirkan, to form…
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Album of the Week 34-2022: Megadeth – The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!
Dave Mustaine is the only musician from thrash metal’s heyday who can occasionally still write material that is just as good as his classic work. And given the strength of the first two singles of ‘The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!’, Megadeth’s new album instantly became my most anticipated…
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Album of the Week 33-2022: Living Colour – Stain
Back when Living Colour’s third studio album ‘Stain’ was released, critical reception was generally lukewarm. Stylistically, the band’s characteristic blend of hardrock, heavy metal, funk, alternative rock and hiphop-inspired rhythms is still going strong on the album. In hindsight, however, it seems like the album’s darker, more cynical tone failed…
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Album of the Week 31-2022: Pokolgép – Metálbomba
Pokolgép was one of Hungary’s first heavy metal bands, having started in 1980 and still roughly playing the same style of music these days. Sure, there is a contemporary power metal edge to Pokolgép these days, but that probably would have happened anyway, as the first seeds of it could…
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Album of the Week 30-2022: Arakain – Schizofrenie
Someone thankfully came to their senses and reissued Arakain’s sophomore album ‘Schizofrenie’ last month. The cd version of the album went for ridiculous prices at online marketplaces, but it is worth seeking out, as it is the best pure thrash metal album Arakain ever released – possibly their only, depending…
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Album of the Week 29-2022: Megadeth – Rust In Peace
With a very promising new Megadeth album on the horizon, I thought it would be interesting to have a look at the yardstick by which I tend to measure every other Megadeth album. At the time, ‘Rust In Peace’ was the album that finally delivered on the promise Dave Mustaine…
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Album of the Week 28-2022: Onmyo-za – Hoyoku Rindo
Occasionally it happens that a band with a somewhat lengthy career has one album in their discography of which it keeps surprising me how good it is. An album that is not necessarily one of their highlights, but every time I put it on, there is a realization that there…
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Album of the Week 27-2022: Chun Qiu – Spring And Autumn
Folk metal theoretically is an interesting genre. Being European, however, the folk metal I am exposed to often consists of the lowest common denominators of both styles. For truly interesting folk metal, I have to look a little further from home. Chun Qiu hails from China and sadly only released…
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Album of the Week 20-2022: Vision Divine – When All The Heroes Are Dead
‘When All The Heroes Are Dead’ and I kind of got off on the wrong foot. After the band’s amazing new singer Ivan Giannini was introduced through the excellent single ‘Angel Of Revenge’, the singles from the following album largely left me cold. Listening to the album now, I am…
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