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 31-2025: Martyr – Dark Believer
Martyr will always be one of my favorite heavy metal bands from my own country. Back when nearly every Dutch metal band was taking their inspiration from various corners of the new wave of British heavy metal scene, Martyr adopted an approach that was notably more ambitious, melodically rich, and…
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Album of the Week 28-2025: Ashes of Ares – New Messiahs
For years, Ashes of Ares was a band that I should have liked, but could not really get into. Matthew Barlow is easily one of my favorite heavy metal singers of all time, and their original drummer Van Williams plays in Nevermore, one of my favorite bands. And yet, their…
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Album of the Week 26-2025: Fer de Lance – Fires on the Mountainside
Out of all the epic heavy metal bands that rose to prominence in the last few years, Chicago’s Fer de Lance might just be the one with the broadest stylistic palette. There is a cinematic quality to their music beyond the theatricality of their peers, while relatively pronounced folky leanings…
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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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