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 31-2024: Volcano – Tenka-Musou
‘Tenka-Musou’ is Volcano focusing on its biggest strengths. Plain and simple. In that sense, the four year break between ‘Tenka-Musou’ and its direct predecessor ‘Godspeed’ seems to have done the band well. Where that album had moments of subtle experimentation to mix up the band’s tried-and-true formula a bit, largely…
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Album of the Week 29-2024: Dolmen Gate – Gateways of Eternity
Bands don’t often sound so sure of what they want their music to sound like on their debut album as Dolmen Gate does on ‘Gateways of Eternity’. The Portuguese quintet combines an epic heavy metal sound with surprisingly sharp, concise songwriting, exuding a confidence that isn’t commonly heard on a…
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Album of the Week 28-2024: SkyEye – New Horizons
While the power metal scene in Western Europe is growing staler by the minute, with so much pop music with distorted guitars dominating the festival bills, there are fortunately plenty of other places to look for good bands. Slovenia’s SkyEye, for instance, has found a nice niche for itself with…
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Album of the Week 25-2024: Crystal Viper – The Silver Key
For the longest time, Crystal Viper had been suffering from a debut album that was too good, in the sense that 2007’s ‘The Curse of Crystal Viper’ was so good that subsequent releases just could not live up to it. In recent years, however, the band has tweaked a few…
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Album of the Week 21-2024: Witherfall – Sounds of the Forgotten
If you like various types of metal and rock, and you don’t want your band to be constrained by genre limitations, there are two things you can do. You can either throw loads of stuff against the wall, hoping some of it will stick, or you can be Witherfall. The…
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Album of the Week 18-2024: Unleash the Archers – Phantoma
There was a time when I used to say that Brittney Hayes deserved a better band than Unleash the Archers. At the time, I just didn’t expect that she would not have to change bands for that. ‘Apex’ (2017) and ‘Abyss’ (2020) were not so much developments as complete evolutions…
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Album of the Week 16-2024: Miserable – Al Abismo de la Libertad
Miserable has got to be one of the most productive metal bands in Peru. ‘Al Abismo de la Libertad’ is their third album of original material in six years, and like its predecessors, it is a breath of fresh air within the thrash metal landscape. They can riff viciously whenever…
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Album of the Week 13-2024: Blaze Bayley – Circle of Stone
Blaze Bayley’s post-Iron Maiden career has been one of ups and downs, though artistically certainly more ups than downs. He has consistently been able to find musicians who provide him with music that appears to be tailor-made for his deep voice, the last decade or so finding those partners in…
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Album of the Week 09-2024: Bruce Dickinson – The Mandrake Project
It has gotten to the point where I am looking forward to a Bruce Dickinson solo album more than a new Iron Maiden album. ‘The Mandrake Project’ is his first in nearly twenty years, although he reportedly started working on it fourteen years ago. While Dickinson probably never will be…
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