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 45-2020: Aria – Kresheniye Ognëm (2020)
Licensing issues prevented Aria from releasing their two albums with Artur Berkut internationally or even including tracks from them on compilations for years. As a result, the band simply decided to re-record the albums with their current – and best – singer Mikhail Zhitnyakov this year. Not a bad idea,…
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Album of the Week 44-2020: Seikima-II – News
In the nineties, Seikima-II basically released two types of albums: distinctly old school heavy metal albums and poppy hardrock albums with a glossy production. The former tend to be more to my liking, but both sides of the aisle have one notable exception. ‘Kyofu No Restaurant’ is easily the most…
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Album of the Week 43-2020: Sanctuary – Into The Mirror Black
When Warrel Dane announced during his lifetime that he had the master tapes to the entire show of which five songs appeared on the extensively bootlegged ‘Into The Mirror Live’ EP, I was excited to see its full release. Dane wouldn’t live to see the release of the full show,…
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Album of the Week 41-2020: Heathen – Empire Of The Blind
Heathen has always been one of my top three thrash metal bands. Their compositions are generally more clever than those of their peers without veering too far into prog territory, they aren’t afraid to use classic heavy metal melodies and as far as thrash metal singers go, David White is…
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Album of the Week 39-2020: Fleetburner – Fleetburner
It isn’t often that debut albums manage to blow me away these days, but Fleetburner’s self-titled first album managed to do just that. Certainly, it helps that the musicians involved are no unexperienced amateurs, but ‘Fleetburner’ is simply an adventurous album that surprises its listeners more than once. The album…
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Album of the Week 38-2020: Iron Maiden – Piece Of Mind
Not many hard rock and heavy metal bands in the eighties enjoyed the commercial success while not deviating an inch from what they wanted to do the way that Iron Maiden did. All of the albums they made in that decade are considered heavy metal classics, but the complexity was…
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Album of the Week 37-2020: Alice Cooper – Brutal Planet
It’s not often that Alice Cooper gets the credit he deserves for how varied his discography is. From the typical Detroit rock ‘n’ roll of the original Alice Cooper band to the more theatrical rock he made with producer Bob Ezrin later in the seventies and the surprisingly entertaining glam…
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Album of the Week 36-2020: Nevermore – This Godless Endeavor
‘Enemies Of Reality’ drew quite a lot of flak among Nevermore’s fan base. Most blamed Kelly Gray’s production, which did drain the music of quite a bit of its power, but when Andy Sneap remixed the album two years later, much of the song material was still lacking. Its follow-up…
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Album of the Week 34-2020: Mekong Delta – Tales Of A Future Past
While I liked ‘In A Mirror Darkly’ and Martin LeMar is my favorite Mekong Delta singer thus far, something had to change compositionally, simply because of the risk that bassist and composer Ralf Hubert could end up repeating himself. That change certainly happened on ‘Tales Of A Future Past’. The…
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