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 44-2025: Aria – Kogda Nastanyet Zavtra
Aria celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year. Many veteran bands would be on auto-pilot after such a long period of uninterrupted activity, releasing a compilation album or a live release to mark the occasion. Ever since their best singer Mikhail Zhitnyakov joined the band in 2011, however, Aria has been…
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Album of the Week 34-2025: Helloween – Giants & Monsters
Helloween’s second album with their supersized all-star line-up is a fairly logical follow-up to what they were doing on ‘Helloween‘ (2021). ‘Giants & Monsters’ features a similar mix of a contemporary, bombastic take on the power metal sound the band pioneered in the eighties, and occasional AOR leanings, but it…
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Album of the Week 33-2025: Burning Witches – Inquisition
Burning Witches is at its best when they go one of two specific directions: either leaning fully into the more theatrical aspects of their sound, which is what made ‘The Witch of the North‘ their best album so far, or focusing on all-out aggression. The latter is exactly what makes…
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Album of the Week 32-2025: Onmyo-za – Ginrei Gozen
Onmyo-za has a clearly defined style, to the point where even bands that try to imitate them end up not sounding all that much like them. The exact balance between their traditional heavy metal and seventies hard rock riffs, their very accessible melodic sensibilities, their subtle folky touches, and the…
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Album of the Week 31-2025: Martyr – Dark Believer
Martyr will always be one of my favorite heavy metal bands from my own country. Back when nearly every Dutch metal band was taking their inspiration from various corners of the new wave of British heavy metal scene, Martyr adopted an approach that was notably more ambitious, melodically rich, and…
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Album of the Week 28-2025: Ashes of Ares – New Messiahs
For years, Ashes of Ares was a band that I should have liked, but could not really get into. Matthew Barlow is easily one of my favorite heavy metal singers of all time, and their original drummer Van Williams plays in Nevermore, one of my favorite bands. And yet, their…
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Album of the Week 16-2025: Epica – Aspiral
Like ‘Omega‘ before it, ‘Aspiral’ proves that changing a band’s approach can have a significant impact, even if there aren’t any big stylistic changes. Epica is still a symphonic metal band with fairly big arrangements on ‘Aspiral’, but it feels less like every element of the production is fighting for…
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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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