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 19-2015: Michael Schenker Group – The Michael Schenker Group
Say what you want about his alcohol problems, crippling stage fright or tendency to walk out on bands unexpectedly, but Michael Schenker is an extraordinary talent when it comes to playing the guitar. And while he is most certainly a virtuoso on his instrument, he never forgets that playing well…
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Album of the Week 16-2015: W.A.S.P. – Dominator
Blackie Lawless’ attitude has gotten W.A.S.P. a lot of hatred through the years – often understandably – and their live performances have been hit-and-miss for quite a long time, but his songwriting has been consistently good ever since he took a more serious route with ‘The Headless Children’. While nothing…
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Album of the Week 14-2015: Anthem – Immortal
Album covers are supposed to seduce people into buying the sound carrier they contain. Though not quite as hideous as…let’s say ‘In The Court Of The Crimson King’, the cover of ‘Immortal’ doesn’t suggest that we’re dealing with one of the best Heavy Metal records of the 21st century here.…
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Album of the Week 11-2015: Gunbridge – Privilege Of Ten Thousands
Galneryus fans are split quite evenly into two camps. One prefers original singer Yama-B, while the other goes for current singer Masatoshi Ono. While I am firmly within the Ono camp, Yama-B’s more dramatic delivery isn’t without its merits. During his Galneryus days, his voice already proved better on the…
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Album of the Week 09-2015: Soto – Inside The Vertigo
Some singers could sing the phone book over a busy tone and still move me. Jeff Scott Soto is one of those singers. His powerful voice possesses a rich dose of melody, but also an almost soulful raw edge that makes him a perfect fit for the AOR records he…
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Album of the Week 46-2014: Warlord – Deliver Us
Some legends of Heavy Metal have their praise based on an incredibly small amount of output. For many of the unsung heroes of the NWOBHM movement, only a handful of singles remains as a monument to their supposed brilliance. California’s Warlord has recently expanded their catalog a little, but for…
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Album of the Week 45-2014: Anthem – Absolute World
While many old school Heavy Metal bands had an enormous identity crisis in the nineties due to the rise of Alt-Rock and – in this case – Visual Kei, Naoto Shibata did the right thing; he put his band Anthem to rest until new artistic and business opportunities presented themselves.…
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Album of the Week 43-2014: While Heaven Wept – Suspended At Aphelion
Ambition isn’t a thing that eludes Tom Phillips. From their humble beginnings as an old school Doom Metal trio, While Heaven Wept evolved into a seven-piece that – while still relatively subdued in terms of tempo – combines influences from many subgenres into a unique, majestic form of Heavy Metal.…
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Album of the Week 41-2014: Sanctuary – The Year The Sun Died
Nevermore’s breakup – or hiatus, whatever you choose to believe – was terrible news for yours truly. Nevermore’s unique blend of crushingly heavy riffs, compositional complexity, Warrel Dane’s incredible clean vocals and a sense of melody that seems to be forbidden in contemporary Metal made them one of the best…
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