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.

  • Album of the Week 15-2025: Omen – Kell az Ima

    Veteran heavy metal bands sometimes struggle to stay relevant. With their live audiences generally not wanting to hear any new material, there doesn’t seem to be much of an incentive to come up with a good album. That didn’t stop Omen, however. Every album they released in the last fifteen…

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  • Album of the Week 14-2025: Elvenking – Reader of the Runes – Luna

    ‘Reader of the Runes – Luna’ is the final part in a trilogy that, in my opinion, forms Elvenking’s best work to date. After experimenting with different styles, the Italian sextet found out that folky power metal is what they do best around the time ‘The Pagan Manifesto’ (2014) was…

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  • Album of the Week 11-2025: Turbo – Blizny

    By now, it’s over forty years ago that Turbo released one of the best debut heavy metal albums of the early eighties in the shape of ‘Dorosłe Dzieci‘. Their most recent albums ‘Strażnik Światła’ and ‘Piąty Żywioł’, both over a decade old at this point, were textbook examples of an…

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  • Album of the Week 09-2025: Sacrosanct – Kidron

    German guitarist Randy Meinhard already immortalized himself as a hero of the Dutch metal scene as a founding member of Pestilence, as well as for releasing the progressive thrash masterpiece that is ‘Recesses for the Depraved’ with his own Sacrosanct in 1991. When he revived Sacrosanct with ‘Necropolis’ in 2018,…

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  • Reissue of the Week 3.5-2025: Defender – City ad Mortis

    This review will be something a bit different than what you may have gotten used to from this site. A somewhat more personal story, perhaps. If that doesn’t sound like it would be up your alley, please feel free to skip this one and come back for the next proper…

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  • Album of the Week 02-2025: Labÿrinth – In the Vanishing Echoes of Goodbye

    These are excellent times for those who enjoy Italian-styled progressive power metal of the highest order. Labÿrinth’s new album ‘In the Vanishing Echoes of Goodbye’ comes hot on the heels of the new album by guitarist Olaf Thörsen‘s other band Vision Divine, which was released in September. And it is…

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  • Album of the Week 01-2025: Saqqara – Harmadik Csapás

    Saqqara was once brought to my attention when a promo of their second album ‘Második Csapás’ was included with an order from Hungary. It was promising enough, but since it is over five years old at this point, and there was only a year between their first two albums, I…

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  • Best of 2024: The Albums

    In all honesty, I was not prepared for 2024 to be a year with such a great number of amazing new releases. In a way, it was great timing professionalizing the website halfway through a year with this release schedule, though it would be a blatant lie to chalk that…

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  • Album of the Week 52-2024: ADX – L’Empire du Crépuscule

    Out of the first generation of French heavy metal bands, ADX is the only one that releases music that matches the quality of their eighties heyday, in my opinion. Even with that in mind, however, ‘L’Empire du Crépuscule’ is a pleasant surprise. Its predecessors ‘Bestial’ (2020) and ‘Non Serviam’ (2016)…

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