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 18-2024: Unleash the Archers – Phantoma
There was a time when I used to say that Brittney Hayes deserved a better band than Unleash the Archers. At the time, I just didn’t expect that she would not have to change bands for that. ‘Apex’ (2017) and ‘Abyss’ (2020) were not so much developments as complete evolutions…
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Album of the Week 13-2024: Blaze Bayley – Circle of Stone
Blaze Bayley’s post-Iron Maiden career has been one of ups and downs, though artistically certainly more ups than downs. He has consistently been able to find musicians who provide him with music that appears to be tailor-made for his deep voice, the last decade or so finding those partners in…
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Album of the Week 10-2024: Myrath – Karma
Myrath’s sixth album ‘Karma’ is a difficult album to review for me, because I like it, but at the same time, it shows some developments that will make me approach future releases of the band with a reasonable degree of caution. If well-written and expertly arranged melodic metal is what…
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Album of the Week 06-2024: Throne of Thorns – Converging Parallel Worlds
Spectacular melodic metal debut albums are hard to come by these days, but with ‘Converging Parallel Worlds‘, Belgian newcomer Throne of Thorns has delivered just that. While it might help that Throne of Thorns consists of experienced musicians, the band is not a supergroup in the traditional sense of the…
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Best of 2023: The Albums
As announced, my list of the best albums released in 2023 is a day early in order to fully devote January to Peruvian Metal Month, but that should not have any effect on the actual list. Once again, it wasn’t too difficult to fill the list with twenty titles. After…
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Announcement: Peruvian Metal Month
Exciting news! January will be Peruvian Metal Month on Kevy Metal. What does that mean? For starters, every interview that will be published here throughout the month will be with a metal musician from Peru, and each of the four Album of the Week reviews will be about releases by…
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Album of the Week 51-2023: Malón – Oscuro Plan del Poder
Although I have always preferred Malón to Hermética – the wildly popular Argentine metal band it spun off from – due to their lack of upbeat, punky tracks and overly long ballads, it has been a while since they actually released an album I enjoyed. That sounds worse than it…
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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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