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 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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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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