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 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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Album of the Week 39-2021: KK’s Priest – Sermons Of The Sinner
When KK Downing left Judas Priest, something about the wording of his statements made me think he was retiring for good. Ten years later, we are treated to ‘Sermons Of The Sinner’, the debut album of his own band KK’s Priest, which also features singer Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens, who fronted…
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Album of the Week 38-2021: Bonded By Blood – Exiled To Earth
Despite my love for thrash metal, the retro thrash hype of about a decade and a half ago left me cold. Most bands leaned towards the crossover side of thrash, while the pizza, beer and zombies lyrics were too juvenile to me. One band really appealed to me though and…
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Album of the Week 37-2021: Rage – Resurrection Day
In all honesty, I did not think Peavy still had a full good album left in him. Recent years have shown that he still knows how to write a good song with an excellent chorus, but ‘Resurrection Day’ is easily the best Rage album since 2003’s ‘Soundchaser’, possibly since the…
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Album of the Week 34-2021: Flotsam And Jetsam – Blood In The Water
Flotsam And Jetsam is generally considered to be experiencing a comeback in recent years, but I’m not sure if I agree with that assessment, as the band never went through prolonged periods of releasing poor albums. Even when their music was closer to hardrock than heavy metal in the mid-nineties,…
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