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 11-2020: Onmyo-za – Hyakki-Ryoran
Only a year had passed between the releases of Onmyo-za’s debut album ‘Kikoku Tensho’ and sophomore record ‘Hyakki-Ryoran’, but you wouldn’t be able to tell from the massive improvement the latter is over the former. Where the debut had promising, but largely underdeveloped material, ‘Hyakki-Ryoran’ features some of the best…
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Album of the Week 10-2020: Burning Witches – Dance With The Devil
Burning Witches is a Swiss band that has been making a mix of traditional heavy metal and contemporary power metal for the last five years. I always found their music mildly entertaining, but something has changed with their new album ‘Dance With The Devil’. First off, there is a larger…
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Album of the Week 08-2020: Demons & Wizards – III
When things went quiet for a decade and a half after the release of their second album ‘Touched By The Crimson King’, I just assumed Demons & Wizards was finished. That would have been understandable, given that Jon Schaffer and Hansi Kürsch are incredibly busy with Iced Earth and Blind…
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Album of the Week 05-2020: Lovebites – Electric Pentagram
While Lovebites’ sophomore album ‘Clockwork Immortality’ was good, it was also a little too close to melodic hardrock to not be worried about the band’s future at times. Fortunately, ‘Electric Pentagram’ is a lot more metallic. In fact, the song titles may even suggest that the band is overcompensating for…
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Album of the Week 49-2019: Catharsis – Svetliy Albom
Sometimes it baffles me why some bands are bigger than others based on something as trivial as language. Several lower mid-tier power metal bands are drawing decent crowds throughout Europe, while a fantastic band like Catharsis is approached with caution simply because they sing in Russian. Because make no mistake,…
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Album of the Week 47-2019: Crystal Viper – Tales Of Fire And Ice
While I will forever love the NWOBHM vibe of Crystal Viper’s debut album ‘The Curse Of Crystal Viper’, I also think the band sorely needed a change of pace, as they got stuck in a rut somewhat lately. ‘Tales Of Fire And Ice’ is the change the Polish band needed.…
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Album of the Week 46-2019: Kinniku Shojo Tai – Love
Very few bands can claim a second peak so long after their heyday the way Kinniku Shojo Tai does. Ever since reuniting, Kinniku Shojo Tai has been pumping out quality album after quality album, the best of them worthy of being mentioned among their classic work. ‘Love’ is another one…
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Album of the Week 45-2019: Tomorrow’s Outlook – A Voice Unheard
Metal-wise, I feel like Norway has always been known for the wrong bands. Mention the country to any metalhead and the extreme metal scene is usually the first thing that comes to mind, while there is a fairly healthy progressive metal scene in Norway as well. Tomorrow’s Outlook also has…
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Album of the Week 44-2019: Teatr Teney – Zver’
Dark power metal is not easy to pull off. Many European bands attempting the style have choruses that are a tad too sing-along-oriented to really nail the atmosphere. Russia’s Teatr Teney does a better job and their second official album ‘Zver” goes a long way of showing the power metal…
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