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 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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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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