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 35-2023: Edu Falaschi – Eldorado
Edu Falaschi’s 2021 album ‘Vera Cruz‘ was a comeback of sorts. It was a ridiculously ambitious undertaking, from its concept seeped in Brazilian history right down to its massive arrangements, but somehow it worked really well. ‘Vera Cruz’ contained everything a contemporary power metal album should need: memorable uptempo riffs…
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Album of the Week 34-2023: Hamadría – Sesión de Estudio
For those of us outside Peru, ‘Sesión de Estudio’ is the release that introduced us to the element that made Hamadría an amazing band rather than “just” a great one: the hyper-expressive voice of Ingrid Castro. Her predecessors were all fine singers, but Castro’s clearer timbre, power, subtle vibrato and…
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Album of the Week 33-2023: Vandenberg – Sin
Three years ago, Adrian Vandenberg surprised the rock world by reviving the band that carried his name and releasing ‘2020’, an album that was arguably his heaviest up until that point. Enough of a sleazy feel in the rhythms to call it hardrock, but the riffs are heavy enough to…
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Album of the Week 32-2023: Gillman – Escalofrío
Paul Gillman will forever be a pivotal figure in the Venezuelan hard rock and heavy metal scene, having been a founding member of Arkangel, one of the first Latin American bands in the style. Personally, however, I think he released his best work after his departure from that band under…
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Album of the Week 31-2023: Luzbel – Pasaporte al Infierno
Despite being titled ‘Metal Caido del Cielo’, Luzbel’s debut EP showed a band that wasn’t sure yet whether they were a hard rock or a heavy metal band. Their first full-length – though being just barely half an hour long – ‘Pasaporte al Infierno’ is unequivocally an early heavy metal…
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Album of the Week 30-2023: Medina Azahara – Sin Tiempo
Medina Azahara is one of the pioneers of the Andalusian rock scene, which combines elements of rock and Andalusian folk music. Initially, the type of rock in Medina Azahara’s cocktail was progressive rock heavily inspired by early Genesis. But with the arrival of guitarist Francisco ‘Paco’ Ventura in the late…
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Album of the Week 29-2023: Halford – Resurrection
At the time when Halford’s debut album ‘Resurrection’ was released, it was frequently compared to ‘Accident at Birth’ by Bruce Dickinson, who had recently re-joined Iron Maiden. Both albums featured a return to heavy metal – with a somewhat modern bite – by iconic singers after a couple of years…
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Album of the Week 28-2023: ArkRoyal – Clymenus
ArkRoyal is a band that does things a little differently. Even superficially; the fact that their singer Illumina also plays guitar is quite an anomaly by Japanese rock standards, to the point where I might have thought it actually was illegal to do so for all-female bands – or visual…
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Album of the Week 27-2023: Agora – Empire
When bands who don’t traditionally sing in English release English-language material, there is always a risk involved, especially vocally. Singers may sound wildly different in another language or simply not feel as comfortable not singing in their native tongue. Also, the interaction between the music and the vocals may not…
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