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 08-2024: Tang Dynasty – Mángcì
The black sheep of Tang Dynasty’s discography is actually my second favorite album of theirs. Second only after the near-flawless sophomore album ‘Yǎnyì’, better known in the western world as ‘Epic’. Sure, ‘Mángcì’ (‘Thorn’) sounds different from the band’s earliest works in the sense that its overall sound is significantly…
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Album of the Week 06-2024: Throne of Thorns – Converging Parallel Worlds
Spectacular melodic metal debut albums are hard to come by these days, but with ‘Converging Parallel Worlds‘, Belgian newcomer Throne of Thorns has delivered just that. While it might help that Throne of Thorns consists of experienced musicians, the band is not a supergroup in the traditional sense of the…
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Album of the Week 05-2024: Jenner – Prove Them Wrong
Jenner’s debut album ‘To Live is to Suffer’ impressed me with its surprisingly mature approach to thrash metal songwriting. Guitarist and main songwriter Aleksandra Stamenković is one of the few young thrashers that realizes a good thrash song needs more than just a bunch of fast riffs and a handful…
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Album of the Week 04-2024: NMK – Ravenous Spectre
Out of all the Peruvian bands I have dug into over the past few weeks, NMK is probably the one with potentially the biggest international appeal. And it’s not for the reason you might be thinking of. Sure, the lyrics on the band’s debut album ‘Ravenous Spectre‘ are in English,…
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Album of the Week 03-2024: Mauser – Más Fuerte que la Muerte
Mainstream metal doesn’t really seem to be a thing anymore. Even as late as the early 2000’s, there was always a band with somewhat heavy guitars on fairly frequent rotation even on the most metal-averse radio and music tv stations. A band like Mauser, however, proves that an accessible hard…
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Album of the Week 02-2024: Miserable – Gran Náusea
When ‘Gran Náusea’ was recorded, Miserable was still pretty much the solo project of Adrián Del Aguila, fresh off releasing his first album with M.A.S.A.C.R.E after a decade fronting that band. But two things are clear immediately: one is that this material couldn’t really have worked within what M.A.S.A.C.R.E was…
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Album of the Week 01-2024: Masacre – Sin Piedad
Recorded in 1987 and 1988, but not released in their native Peru until deep into the nineties – though it was released on cassette in Venezuela in 1991 – it is safe to say that Masacre’s debut album ‘Sin Piedad’ had a bit of a troubled birth. Given the economic…
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Best of 2023: The Albums
As announced, my list of the best albums released in 2023 is a day early in order to fully devote January to Peruvian Metal Month, but that should not have any effect on the actual list. Once again, it wasn’t too difficult to fill the list with twenty titles. After…
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Announcement: Peruvian Metal Month
Exciting news! January will be Peruvian Metal Month on Kevy Metal. What does that mean? For starters, every interview that will be published here throughout the month will be with a metal musician from Peru, and each of the four Album of the Week reviews will be about releases by…
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