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 51-2023: Malón – Oscuro Plan del Poder
Although I have always preferred Malón to Hermética – the wildly popular Argentine metal band it spun off from – due to their lack of upbeat, punky tracks and overly long ballads, it has been a while since they actually released an album I enjoyed. That sounds worse than it…
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Album of the Week 50-2023: Vocifer – Jurupary
If you like your metal melodic and well-written, you owe it to yourself to listen to ‘Jurupary’, the sophomore album of Brazilian quintet Vocifer. Not only is it a massive improvement over their 2020 debut ‘Boiuna’, it contains some of the best power metal songwriting I have heard in a…
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Album of the Week 49-2023: Black Sabbath – Seventh Star
‘Seventh Star’ is an album with a bit of a strange reputation, not in the least part because it was originally conceived as a solo album for guitarist Tony Iommi rather than a Black Sabbath album. However, I do think the album laid the groundwork for the way Black Sabbath…
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Album of the Week 44-2023: Wolf – Shadowland
‘Shadowland’ initially escaped my attention when it was released last year. Possibly because of the big wave of quality releases at the time, but the fact that Wolf’s recent albums did not manage to impress me quite as much as ‘Ravenous’ (2009) and especially ‘Legion of Bastards’ (2011) did was…
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Album of the Week 43-2023: Angra – Cycles of Pain
‘Cycles of Pain’ marks the first Angra album since 2006’s ‘Aurora Consurgens’ that was recorded with the exact same line-up as its predecessor. And while that doesn’t necessarily say anything about the quality of the material, it sort of shows. The album sounds like a logical progression of 2018’s ‘Ømni’…
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Album of the Week 41-2023: Morifade – Domination
Back when I was a teenager, the Swedish power metal scene interested me greatly. There were quite a few bands that were just as influenced by Helloween as their German counterparts, but put a different spin on it that, while not exactly progressive, was definitely inspired by the more crunchy…
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Album of the Week 39-2023: Miserable – Esclavo Miserable
Even the best newer thrash metal bands tend to sound so much like the classic bands from the eighties that they ultimately end up feeling like watered-down versions of those bands. Part of the problem might be that the parameters of what constitutes thrash metal are quite narrow. However, Peru’s…
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Album of the Week 37-2023: Contracara – 1307
Whenever I need the rebellious spirit that seems to have been middle-classed out of contemporary European and American heavy metal, my attention tends to quickly turn to Central and South America. Contracara is one of those bands that made me realize what it was that I needed to hear in…
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Album of the Week 36-2023: Ningen Isu – Shikisokuzekū
2021’s ‘Kuraku’ was as close to a median Ningen Isu album as we ever got. Solid, but unspectacular. Fortunately, the power trio from Aomori has a way of following lesser albums up with something amazing. The lackluster ‘Burai Hōjō’ was followed by the crusing masterpiece ‘Kaidan Soshite Shi to Eros‘,…
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