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 50-2023: Vocifer – Jurupary
If you like your metal melodic and well-written, you owe it to yourself to listen to ‘Jurupary’, the sophomore album of Brazilian quintet Vocifer. Not only is it a massive improvement over their 2020 debut ‘Boiuna’, it contains some of the best power metal songwriting I have heard in a…
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Album of the Week 44-2023: Wolf – Shadowland
‘Shadowland’ initially escaped my attention when it was released last year. Possibly because of the big wave of quality releases at the time, but the fact that Wolf’s recent albums did not manage to impress me quite as much as ‘Ravenous’ (2009) and especially ‘Legion of Bastards’ (2011) did was…
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Album of the Week 43-2023: Angra – Cycles of Pain
‘Cycles of Pain’ marks the first Angra album since 2006’s ‘Aurora Consurgens’ that was recorded with the exact same line-up as its predecessor. And while that doesn’t necessarily say anything about the quality of the material, it sort of shows. The album sounds like a logical progression of 2018’s ‘Ømni’…
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Album of the Week 41-2023: Morifade – Domination
Back when I was a teenager, the Swedish power metal scene interested me greatly. There were quite a few bands that were just as influenced by Helloween as their German counterparts, but put a different spin on it that, while not exactly progressive, was definitely inspired by the more crunchy…
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Album of the Week 35-2023: Edu Falaschi – Eldorado
Edu Falaschi’s 2021 album ‘Vera Cruz‘ was a comeback of sorts. It was a ridiculously ambitious undertaking, from its concept seeped in Brazilian history right down to its massive arrangements, but somehow it worked really well. ‘Vera Cruz’ contained everything a contemporary power metal album should need: memorable uptempo riffs…
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Album of the Week 34-2023: Hamadría – Sesión de Estudio
For those of us outside Peru, ‘Sesión de Estudio’ is the release that introduced us to the element that made Hamadría an amazing band rather than “just” a great one: the hyper-expressive voice of Ingrid Castro. Her predecessors were all fine singers, but Castro’s clearer timbre, power, subtle vibrato and…
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Album of the Week 32-2023: Gillman – Escalofrío
Paul Gillman will forever be a pivotal figure in the Venezuelan hard rock and heavy metal scene, having been a founding member of Arkangel, one of the first Latin American bands in the style. Personally, however, I think he released his best work after his departure from that band under…
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Album of the Week 29-2023: Halford – Resurrection
At the time when Halford’s debut album ‘Resurrection’ was released, it was frequently compared to ‘Accident at Birth’ by Bruce Dickinson, who had recently re-joined Iron Maiden. Both albums featured a return to heavy metal – with a somewhat modern bite – by iconic singers after a couple of years…
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Album of the Week 28-2023: ArkRoyal – Clymenus
ArkRoyal is a band that does things a little differently. Even superficially; the fact that their singer Illumina also plays guitar is quite an anomaly by Japanese rock standards, to the point where I might have thought it actually was illegal to do so for all-female bands – or visual…
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