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 09-2025: Sacrosanct – Kidron
German guitarist Randy Meinhard already immortalized himself as a hero of the Dutch metal scene as a founding member of Pestilence, as well as for releasing the progressive thrash masterpiece that is ‘Recesses for the Depraved’ with his own Sacrosanct in 1991. When he revived Sacrosanct with ‘Necropolis’ in 2018,…
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Reissue of the Week 3.5-2025: Defender – City ad Mortis
This review will be something a bit different than what you may have gotten used to from this site. A somewhat more personal story, perhaps. If that doesn’t sound like it would be up your alley, please feel free to skip this one and come back for the next proper…
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Album of the Week 02-2025: Labÿrinth – In the Vanishing Echoes of Goodbye
These are excellent times for those who enjoy Italian-styled progressive power metal of the highest order. Labÿrinth’s new album ‘In the Vanishing Echoes of Goodbye’ comes hot on the heels of the new album by guitarist Olaf Thörsen‘s other band Vision Divine, which was released in September. And it is…
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Album of the Week 01-2025: Saqqara – Harmadik Csapás
Saqqara was once brought to my attention when a promo of their second album ‘Második Csapás’ was included with an order from Hungary. It was promising enough, but since it is over five years old at this point, and there was only a year between their first two albums, I…
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Best of 2024: The Albums
In all honesty, I was not prepared for 2024 to be a year with such a great number of amazing new releases. In a way, it was great timing professionalizing the website halfway through a year with this release schedule, though it would be a blatant lie to chalk that…
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Album of the Week 52-2024: ADX – L’Empire du Crépuscule
Out of the first generation of French heavy metal bands, ADX is the only one that releases music that matches the quality of their eighties heyday, in my opinion. Even with that in mind, however, ‘L’Empire du Crépuscule’ is a pleasant surprise. Its predecessors ‘Bestial’ (2020) and ‘Non Serviam’ (2016)…
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Album of the Week 50-2024: Pokolgép – Vissza Sose Nézz
After introducing their new singer Richárd Bánhegyesi with a single earlier this year, Pokolgép’s new album ‘Vissza Sose Nézz’ was announced less than a month before its release. Sure, the Hungarian heavy metal institution was due a new album – the excellent ‘Metálbomba’ being nearly nine years old at this…
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Album of the Week 49-2024: Triumpher – Spirit Invictus
Don’t let the band logo trick you into thinking Triumpher is an extreme metal band. While the influences are certainly there, the Greek quintet mainly wears its ‘The Triumph of Steel’-era Manowar inspiration in its sleeve, though with notably less repetitive songwriting, as well as more pronounced melodic sensibilities, and…
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Album of the Week 44-2024: Lucifer’s Hammer – Be and Exist
‘Be and Exist’ is the next step in the evolution of Lucifer’s Hammer. 2021’s ‘The Trip’ already saw the Chilean band enhancing their NWOBHM-based sound with more adventurous compositions, making their music more than just solid and fun, but their latest release really goes a long way in carving a…
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