Progressive Metal Reviews
Although I have a somewhat conflicted relationship with the progressive metal genre, the bands that tackle the style well tend to do so exceptionally well. If you like your time signatures odd and often changing, your song structures unpredictable, your chords and harmonies sophisticated, and your songs long, make sure to check up on Kevy Metal’s progressive metal reviews from time to time. You can find all my progressive metal Album of the Week reviews right here.
However, I did not start properly tagging my reviews until a couple of years in. If you are looking for something that doesn’t show up, it might still be there. I recommend using the search bar at the bottom of the page if you are looking for something specific.
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Album of the Week 50-2025: Sexto Sonar – Enfrentando la Realidad
Progressive metal bands often contradict themselves by playing something that closely resembles their influences. Maybe it’s because Sexto Sonar is not from Europe or North America, but even though hints of their influences occasionally pop up, their sole full-length album ‘Enfrentando la Realidad’ has a fairly original sound that largely…
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Album of the Week 43-2025: Aephanemer – Utopie
Aephanemer has always been a promising melodic and especially symphonic death metal band, but nothing prepared me for how much ‘Utopie’ was going to overwhelm me. The French trio went through an evolution that goes beyond the growth bands usually show between two albums, to the point where the whole…
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Album of the Week 41-2025: Coroner – Dissonance Theory
Easily one of my most anticipated releases this year, Coroner’s first original studio album in thirty-two years doesn’t disappoint. It takes everything good about the Swiss trio and translates it to the current day. That should not be too surprising, as Coroner was always ahead of its time both in…
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Album of the Week 38-2025: Amorphis – Borderland
The line between having a clearly defined style and going through the motions is a very fine one. While Amorphis has sporadically found itself on the wrong side of that line – 2011’s ‘The Beginning of Times’ comes to mind – it is genuinely amazing how they have a sound…
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EP of the Week 36.5: Traversus – Navigate
Few young bands excite me quite as much as Traversus does. There is something about the way the Dutch quartet mixes the complexity of progressive metal with the accessibility of melodic rock music that simply works. Traversus manages to avoid the pitfalls of both styles in a way even veterans…
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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 27-2025: Impureza – Alcázares
Mixing flamenco and death metal may initially sound like the type of thing you might find on the social media of a pretentious guitarist. Impureza proves that there can be more to it than just interspersing your intense riff work with some Spanish-style nylon-string acoustic guitar work. When they do…
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Album of the Week 09-2025: Sacrosanct – Kidron
German guitarist Randy Meinhard already immortalized himself as a hero of the Dutch metal scene as a founding member of Pestilence, as well as for releasing the progressive thrash masterpiece that is ‘Recesses for the Depraved’ with his own Sacrosanct in 1991. When he revived Sacrosanct with ‘Necropolis’ in 2018,…
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Album of the Week 06-2025: Obscura – A Sonication
Allegations of plagiarism, as well as the fact that it is the fourth Obscura album – and the second consecutively – to feature a completely different line-up around vocalist and guitarist Steffen Kummerer, caused many people to have an opinion on ‘A Sonication’ before even having heard any of the…
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