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 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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Album of the Week 09-2026: Triumpher – Piercing the Heart of the World
With a lot of the focus of the music industry shifting away from actually making albums, a band releasing high-quality albums at the pace Greece’s Triumpher does is quite the impressive feat. Their third album ‘Piercing the Heart of the World’ releases two days before Triumpher’s debut album ‘Storming the…
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Album of the Week 08-2026: Lovebites – Outstanding Power
And with the fifth full-length album in Lovebites’ alphabetical discography, we are already in the second half of the alphabet, in the year that the band celebrates its tenth anniversary, no less. In those years, the Japanese quintet released a lot of excellent European-styled power metal, though I don’t think…
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Album of the Week 06-2026: Leatherhead – Violent Horror Stories
With their 2024 self-titled debut album, Greek old school metalheads Leatherhead already made quite the impression on me, though my overall opinion of that album remains that it shows some potential that was yet to be realized. In all honesty, though, I did not expect them to live up to…
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Album of the Week 02-2026: Landsemk – Vence Tus Miedos
One of the handful of Venezuelan bands whose work I enjoyed before starting my research into Venezuelan Metal Season is Landsemk. Their blend of traditional heavy metal, pronounced melodic touches that owe as much to eighties hard rock as they do to power metal, and subtle progressive leanings is catchy,…
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Album of the Week 01-2026: Guerra Santa – Éxodo: Un Nuevo Comienzo
By the time ‘Éxodo: Un Nuevo Comienzo’ was recorded, Guerra Santa had already left their provincial Venezuelan hometown of San Cristóbal for the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires, and that relocation is the thread that runs through the album. To write the music for the album, singer and sole remaining…
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Best of 2025: The Albums
We interrupt your regularly scheduled Venezuelan Metal Season for what I think are the twenty best new studio albums of 2025. Like last year, it was quite difficult to limit the list to only twenty titles. Great albums were relesased consistently throughout the year. While I briefly considered expanding the…
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Album of the Week 52-2025: Gillman – Inevitable
Out of all Gillman albums, ‘Inevitable‘ is the one I think deserves to be talked about more. It does seem to be more difficult to obtain than some of Gillman’s classic albums, but apart from the excellent closing track ‘María Lionza’, it isn’t all that well-represented on Gillman’s live sets…
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