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 41-2024: Capilla Ardiente – Where Gods Live and Men Die
One of my most anticipated releases of the year, ‘Where Gods Live and Men Die’ does not disappoint. Capilla Ardiente is easily the most interesting doom metal band in the world these days, as they incorporate all the traits of the genre, but manage to put their own spin on…
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Album of the Week 39-2024: Galneryus – The Stars Will Light the Way
After last year’s disappointing ‘Between Dread and Valor’, my expectations for its follow-up were mixed. On the one hand, the last album wasn’t exactly a reason to be hopeful for what would be next. However, Galneryus has a habit of following up their most disappointing releases with something good. That…
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Album of the Week 38-2024: Saber Tiger – Eliminated
Through the years, Saber Tiger has carved a great niche for itself by combining familiar elements to create something that sounds like them, and them alone. The surprisingly wide chords for what is essentially a traditional heavy metal band, the relatively low tunings for the style, the mildly proggy song…
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Album of the Week 37-2024: Vision Divine – Blood and Angels’ Tears
What is it about concept albums that makes Olaf Thörsen rise above his already lofty standards? ‘Stream of Consciousness‘ (2004) is arguably the best album he ever was a part of, its follow-up ‘The 25th Hour’ (2007) is one of the better Vision Divine albums, and ‘Blood and Angels’ Tears’…
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Album of the Week 36-2024: Flotsam and Jetsam – I Am the Weapon
When bands from the eighties release something worthwhile these days, it often gets designated as a “best since” release. The implication being that it’s good, but not as good as the classics. One band that is at least as good today as they were in the eighties, possibly even better,…
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Album of the Week 35-2024: Stryper – When We Were Kings
Stryper’s latter-day streak of great albums that started with ‘Murder by Pride’ (2009) came to a screeching halt with the bland ‘Even the Devil Believes’ (2020) and the severely underdeveloped ‘The Final Battle’ (2022). Although ‘When We Were Kings’ doesn’t quite reach the heights of 2015’s ‘Fallen‘ – which might…
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EP of the Week 34.5-2024: Lovebites – Lovebites EP II
Just over seven years ago, ‘The Lovebites EP’ was released. Despite the history that some of the band members had in a couple of underground bands that gigged fairly frequently – Destrose most notably – it was the first introduction for many people to the music of the band that…
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Album of the Week 34-2024: Vendel – Out in the Fields
Sometimes, applying a certain genre tag to a band doesn’t really do its sound any justice. Going by stylistic characteristics and influences alone, Vendel can be placed firmly within epic heavy/doom metal territory. And yet, they sound nothing like the Manilla Road, Manowar and Solitude Aeturnus wannabes that scene is…
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Album of the Week 33-2024: Horcas – El Diablo
For veteran heavy metal acts, there isn’t much incentive to release something that is better than good enough to keep them touring for a couple more years. Not sure if it works quite the same in Horcas’ native Argentina, but it seems like it does. That is exactly why any…
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