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 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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Album of the Week 33-2020: Pentagram – Trail Blazer
Before they found their sound in largely mid-tempo heavy metal with strong influences from the Turkish music they grew up with, Pentagram was a thrash metal band. And while their self-titled debut album is quite primitive, ‘Trail Blazer’ shows immense progress. It is still a bit rough around the edges,…
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Album of the Week 32-2020: Persuader – The Fiction Maze
Having a great singer is beneficial to any band, unless that singer to no fault of his own sounds a lot like another popular singer. For years, Persuader has often been written off as a poor man’s Blind Guardian due to Jens Carlsson’s uncanny vocal resemblance to Hansi Kürsch. Personally,…
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Album of the Week 29-2020: Esqarial & Kupczyk – Klassika
Esqarial started out as a fairly progressive death metal band and like most of those bands do, they gradually evolved into something more complex. Contrary to many bands of the same ilk, however, Esqarial also gradually became more melodic. Apparently to the point where frontman and current Vader guitarist Marek…
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Album of the Week 27-2020: Arakain – Jekyll & Hyde
Now this is how you do a modern metal album! Ever since current singer Honza Toužimský joined Arakain, the band has slowly been moving into a slightly more melodic direction. And with an increasing degree of variation in the tempos, something already hinted at on ‘Adrenalinum’ (2014) and ‘Arakadabra’ (2016),…
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Album of the Week 26-2020: Turbo – Dorosłe Dzieci
While ‘Dorosłe Dzieci’ isn’t necessarily my favorite Turbo album – that would probably be the more thrashy ‘Kawaleria Szatana’ – it is one of the most accomplished debut albums of all time. It largely foregoes the flaws debut albums tend to suffer from, such as still being in search of…
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