Power Metal Reviews
High tempos, soaring vocals, memorable choruses, and majestic melodies – often harmonies – all made me an avid power metal fan as an early teenager. And despite getting into other genres through the years, my love for power metal never really faded away. As a result, quite a large part of my Album of the Week reviews have been about power metal albums. You can find all the power metal reviews published on Kevy Metal right here. Overlaps with my heavy metal reviews inevitably exist.
If you are looking something that isn’t listed here, I might still have reviewed it. I didn’t start properly tagging my reviews until a few years in. You can use the search bar to search for any artist or release you want to know more about using the search bar at the bottom of the page.
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Album of the Week 25-2026: Matenrou Opera – Cinematographe
With ‘Mutsu no Hana‘ pleasantly surprising me with its almost non-stop power metal majesty a year and a half ago, expectations were fairly high for its follow-up ‘Cinematographe’. But while Matenrou Opera is equally guitar-heavy as on its two predecessors here, ‘Cinematographe’ is neither as power metal-focused nor as good.…
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Album of the Week 24-2026: Edu Falaschi – Mi’raj
Edu Falaschi has been on a roll since he assembled an all-star Brazilian power/prog band around him and started working on a suite of albums that are so ridiculously ambitious that I can’t help but respect it. Like ‘Vera Cruz‘ and ‘Eldorado‘ before it, ‘Mi’raj’ is a concept album presenting…
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Album of the Week 21-2026: Leatherwitch – First Spell
Given the fact that Marta Gabriel is able to play just about every instrument on any given album, it was only a matter of time she would do just that after Crystal Viper called it quits last year. Though I have to say that it was quite a surprise that…
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Album of the Week 20-2026: Icarus – Rising from the Ashes
Icarus reportedly was the first ever power metal band in Peru, but through a combination of factors – the most problematic of which being that there isn’t a proper music business to support a niche style like power metal there – they never really got around to releasing a proper…
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Check Out Joad Manuel Jiménez’ ‘Retrospective’
One of the best things to come out of Venezuelan Metal Season for me was befriending Joad Manuel Jiménez. For those of you who don’t know: Joad was the singer of Venezuelan heavy metal pioneers Arkangel from 1994 to 2002, and then again from 2015 to 2016. After leaving Arkangel…
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Album of the Week 18-2026: Sins of Shadows – The Last Frontier
Although their band name brings one of my favorite Symphony X songs to mind, Sins of Shadows isn’t as proggy as that connection may suggest. There is some pre-Dream Theater prog on ‘The Last Frontier’, but it is clear that strong melodic themes, well-crafted songs and an overall narrative quality…
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Album of the Week 17-2026: Saratoga – En Estado Puro
When guitarist Jero Ramiro announced his second departure from Spanish heavy metal pioneers Saratoga earlier this year, that was cause for concern for me, as I’m not the biggest fan of the direction the band took during his absence. Unlike last time, however, his replacement isn’t trying to turn Saratoga…
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Album of the Week 12-2026: Tomorrow’s Outlook – Black Waves
The previous Tomorrow’s Outlook album ‘A Voice Unheard‘ is nearly eight years old at this point, so for a while, the question was whether the Norwegian band was ever going to deliver on the substantial promise shown on that album. Fortunately, ‘Black Waves’ takes everything that was good about ‘A…
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Album of the Week 10-2026: Assignment – With the End Comes Silence
Metal is at its best when it doesn’t quite neatly fit a certain subgenre. It makes it more difficult to market, sure, but it also accounts for the most satisfying listening experiences, because bands that don’t care about genre limitations tend to make more interesting songwriting choices. This is certainly…
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