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 48-2021: Kalapács – Apokalipszis
József Kalapács is a key figure in Hungary’s heavy metal history, having fronted two highly influential bands before starting a band under his own last name. In all honesty though, I think both of those bands improved after his departure. Pokolgép recorded their best albums with Joe Rudán at the…
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Album of the Week 45-2021: Mary’s Blood – Mary’s Blood
‘Confessions’ was a pretty divisive album among Mary’s Blood’s fan base. It saw the band moving towards modern hardrock in a significant number of songs with a production style focusing on the band’s biggest asset: the voice of singer Eye. Its follow-up, a self-titled release no less, takes a U-turn…
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Album of the Week 39-2021: KK’s Priest – Sermons Of The Sinner
When KK Downing left Judas Priest, something about the wording of his statements made me think he was retiring for good. Ten years later, we are treated to ‘Sermons Of The Sinner’, the debut album of his own band KK’s Priest, which also features singer Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens, who fronted…
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Album of the Week 37-2021: Rage – Resurrection Day
In all honesty, I did not think Peavy still had a full good album left in him. Recent years have shown that he still knows how to write a good song with an excellent chorus, but ‘Resurrection Day’ is easily the best Rage album since 2003’s ‘Soundchaser’, possibly since the…
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Album of the Week 34-2021: Flotsam And Jetsam – Blood In The Water
Flotsam And Jetsam is generally considered to be experiencing a comeback in recent years, but I’m not sure if I agree with that assessment, as the band never went through prolonged periods of releasing poor albums. Even when their music was closer to hardrock than heavy metal in the mid-nineties,…
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Album of the Week 33-2021: Aion – Absolute
No, ‘Absolute’ is not the best Aion album. ‘Aionism’ will probably forever hold that title for me. Given the time it came out, however, it is quite surprising how good the album is. It came out on the heels of their far too upbeat self-titled album and the rather plodding…
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Album of the Week 32-2021: Attacker – Sins Of The World
Attacker might just be the only US power metal band that is better now than they were in the eighties. Their peers often suffer from the “best since” syndrome. Even the ones that are actually making good albums; every good album Vicious Rumors makes might be their best since ‘Welcome…
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Album of the Week 30-2021: Heretic – Breaking Point
Mike Howe’s untimely death earlier this week spurred on a lot of people to put on the excellent albums he recorded with Metal Church again. For the record, I don’t think either Howe or Metal Church have ever sounded as good as on those records, but I thought it might…
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Album of the Week 28-2021: Rakshasa – Hyakka Sousei
Rakshasa came to my attention while searching for bands that sound like Onmyo-za. They don’t really; both bands have an approach that combines heavy metal with traditional Japanese elements in their sound and aesthetics, as well as an emphasis on female vocals – pretty much exclusively in Rakshasa’s case –…
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