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 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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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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