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 28-2014: Jupiter – Classical Element
Versailles was one of the most Metal – and arguably one of the best – bands of the latter day Visual Kei movement, but they lost most of their edge after the ‘Jubilee’ album. When the band split last year, singer Kamijo moved on to a solo carreer, while the…
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Album of the Week 24-2014: Falconer – Black Moon Rising
After its direct predecessor ‘Armod’, the first album for Swedish Power Metal band Falconer that was fully in their native tongue, being a relatively Folky affair, ‘Black Moon Rising’ can almost be seen as a reaction to that record. This eighth full length is easily the most guitar riff driven…
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Album of the Week 19-2014: X – Blue Blood
Back before X Japan turned into a band that released a little too many ballads – despite the obvious quality of some of them – X was a fantastic Heavy Metal band with a tightness and a musicianship that many European or American genre colleagues should have been jealous of.…
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Album of the Week 14-2014: Gamma Ray – Empire Of The Undead
No, ‘Empire Of The Undead’ is not Gamma Ray’s grand return to the great heights they reached on ‘Land Of The Free’, but this is much closer to it than 2007’s ‘Land Of The Free II’, ironically. The album finds the German Power Metal legend somewhere near to the darker…
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Album of the Week 11-2014: WarCry – Inmortal
Although Spain is full of decent Power Metal bands, many of them fail to make any impact internationally because they’re singing in Spanish. Tierra Santa’s records are relatively easy to come by, but in order to obtain a record by the vastly superior WarCry, some effort is required. And that’s…
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Album of the Week 03-2014: Vision Divine – Stream Of Consciousness
Lineup changes are an indispensible part of the history of bands that last longer than a few years. These are generally frowned upon, but sometimes they can mean something of a new beginning as well. Case in point: my discovery of the incredible Michele Luppi on Vision Divine’s ‘Stream Of…
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