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 05-2022: Nevermore – The Obsidian Conspiracy
When Nevermore’s best albums are discussed, their swansong ‘The Obsidian Conspiracy’ almost never comes up. This may have something to do with their rather unceremonious split less than a year after its release, because of which the album was never properly promoted in some parts of the world. But while…
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Album of the Week 03-2022: Angels’ Temptation – Anthem Of The Angels
Once a sound is established within a certain scene, copycats are spawned. Despite my weak spot for the type of symphonic power metal played by many bands in the Japanese visual kei scene, most new bands that appeared in the last fifteen years or so end up sounding like fairly…
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Album of the Week 02-2022: Loudness – Sunburst ~ Gamushara
For a second, I thought that Loudness had gone the Iron Maiden route by releasing an unnecessary double album. And on the surface, it may seem that way. ‘Sunburst ~ Gamushara’ is barely eighty-five minutes long and could easily have been an even better hour-long album. However, Loudness did go…
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Album of the Week 51-2021: Jewel – Revolution In Heaven
Jewel’s ‘Revolution In Heaven’ is one of the most intriguing metal albums ever to come out of the Netherlands. It can be a bit messy at times and it is not the biggest exercise in consistency, but when Jewel is on the money, they make some of the best metal…
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Album of the Week 49-2021: Edu Falaschi – Vera Cruz
There is something ridiculously ambitious about ‘Vera Cruz’, the new solo album by former Angra singer Edu Falaschi. For starters, it is a concept album and despite the story being fictional, quite a bit of research has been done to make sure the circumstances are historically correct. Musically, ‘Vera Cruz’…
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Album of the Week 48-2021: Kalapács – Apokalipszis
József Kalapács is a key figure in Hungary’s heavy metal history, having fronted two highly influential bands before starting a band under his own last name. In all honesty though, I think both of those bands improved after his departure. Pokolgép recorded their best albums with Joe Rudán at the…
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Album of the Week 45-2021: Mary’s Blood – Mary’s Blood
‘Confessions’ was a pretty divisive album among Mary’s Blood’s fan base. It saw the band moving towards modern hardrock in a significant number of songs with a production style focusing on the band’s biggest asset: the voice of singer Eye. Its follow-up, a self-titled release no less, takes a U-turn…
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Album of the Week 43-2021: Primordial – To The Nameless Dead
When metal bands choose to season their music with Celtic folk elements, it often turns out obnoxiously upbeat and peppered with violins and whistles. Primordial has been taking elements from the traditional music of their native Ireland for well over three decades now, but the results are far more melancholic.…
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Album of the Week 42-2021: Tygers Of Pan Tang – Majors & Minors
While I don’t want to make a habit out of reviewing compilation albums, ‘Majors & Minors’ was exactly the album I was hoping Tygers Of Pan Tang would release for a couple of years now. Ever since their current singer Jacopo Meille joined the band, I feel like their sound…
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