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 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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Album of the Week 51-2024: Matenrou Opera – Mutsu no Hana
Well, that was a surprise. With 2024 being a fairly terrible year when it comes to major Japanese metal releases, I wasn’t expecting Matenrou Opera to be the band to save J-metal’s honor. That isn’t meant as an attack on the band, it just feels like they had been going…
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Album of the Week 50-2024: Pokolgép – Vissza Sose Nézz
After introducing their new singer Richárd Bánhegyesi with a single earlier this year, Pokolgép’s new album ‘Vissza Sose Nézz’ was announced less than a month before its release. Sure, the Hungarian heavy metal institution was due a new album – the excellent ‘Metálbomba’ being nearly nine years old at this…
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Album of the Week 49-2024: Triumpher – Spirit Invictus
Don’t let the band logo trick you into thinking Triumpher is an extreme metal band. While the influences are certainly there, the Greek quintet mainly wears its ‘The Triumph of Steel’-era Manowar inspiration in its sleeve, though with notably less repetitive songwriting, as well as more pronounced melodic sensibilities, and…
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Album of the Week 39-2024: Galneryus – The Stars Will Light the Way
After last year’s disappointing ‘Between Dread and Valor’, my expectations for its follow-up were mixed. On the one hand, the last album wasn’t exactly a reason to be hopeful for what would be next. However, Galneryus has a habit of following up their most disappointing releases with something good. That…
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Album of the Week 38-2024: Saber Tiger – Eliminated
Through the years, Saber Tiger has carved a great niche for itself by combining familiar elements to create something that sounds like them, and them alone. The surprisingly wide chords for what is essentially a traditional heavy metal band, the relatively low tunings for the style, the mildly proggy song…
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