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 24-2025: Animalize – Verminateur
Younger old school heavy metal bands with gimmicky live shows and a somewhat tongue-in-cheeky image often have their shows mask the fact that their music really isn’t all that special. To be fair, so do many of the older bands they model themselves after. Lyon-based Animalize actually has the songs…
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Album of the Week 23-2025: Professor Emeritus – A Land Long Gone
If there is one worldwide metal scene that has consistently been delivering the most interesting and well-rounded new releases lately, it would be the epic heavy and doom metal scene. Maybe it’s because this type of music just requires a certain deal of attention given to the compositions and arrangements,…
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Album of the Week 18-2025: Deathless Legacy – Damnatio Aeterna
Honesty forces me to say that I didn’t quite know what to expect from Deathless Legacy’s sixth album ‘Damnatio Aeterna’. 2022’s ‘Mater Larvarum’ didn’t quite resonate with me as well as their other releases, but it is possible that its larger emphasis on vaguely Powerwolfy pop metal than usual was…
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Album of the Week 15-2025: Omen – Kell az Ima
Veteran heavy metal bands sometimes struggle to stay relevant. With their live audiences generally not wanting to hear any new material, there doesn’t seem to be much of an incentive to come up with a good album. That didn’t stop Omen, however. Every album they released in the last fifteen…
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Album of the Week 11-2025: Turbo – Blizny
By now, it’s over forty years ago that Turbo released one of the best debut heavy metal albums of the early eighties in the shape of ‘Dorosłe Dzieci‘. Their most recent albums ‘Strażnik Światła’ and ‘Piąty Żywioł’, both over a decade old at this point, were textbook examples of an…
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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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