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 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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Album of the Week 05-2024: Jinjer – Duél
Jinjer is the best live band I have seen in recent years. The way the Ukrainian quartet manages to play their demanding music without sacrificing even the tiniest bit of their unbridled energy is something the contemporary metal scene could use a lot more of. Their studio albums generally don’t…
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Album of the Week 02-2025: Labÿrinth – In the Vanishing Echoes of Goodbye
These are excellent times for those who enjoy Italian-styled progressive power metal of the highest order. Labÿrinth’s new album ‘In the Vanishing Echoes of Goodbye’ comes hot on the heels of the new album by guitarist Olaf Thörsen‘s other band Vision Divine, which was released in September. And it is…
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Album of the Week 01-2025: Saqqara – Harmadik Csapás
Saqqara was once brought to my attention when a promo of their second album ‘Második Csapás’ was included with an order from Hungary. It was promising enough, but since it is over five years old at this point, and there was only a year between their first two albums, I…
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Best of 2024: The Albums
In all honesty, I was not prepared for 2024 to be a year with such a great number of amazing new releases. In a way, it was great timing professionalizing the website halfway through a year with this release schedule, though it would be a blatant lie to chalk that…
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Album of the Week 48-2024: Athena XIX – Everflow Part 1: Frames of Humanity
About two and a half decades ago, Athena’s ‘A New Religion?’ was one of my favorite progressive metal albums of the era. The album was an irresistable blend of progressive metal, power metal and even some pop tendencies, and displayed a better grasp of songwriting than most prog bands did…
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Album of the Week 46-2024: Opeth – The Last Will and Testament
After the first song released off ‘The Last Will and Testament’ showed Mikael Åkerfeldt growling for the first time since 2008’s ‘Watershed’, rumors of the album being a return to form started surfacing. This is the wrong way to approach the album for two reasons. First off, Opeth never really…
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Album of the Week 39-2024: Galneryus – The Stars Will Light the Way
After last year’s disappointing ‘Between Dread and Valor’, my expectations for its follow-up were mixed. On the one hand, the last album wasn’t exactly a reason to be hopeful for what would be next. However, Galneryus has a habit of following up their most disappointing releases with something good. That…
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Album of the Week 38-2024: Saber Tiger – Eliminated
Through the years, Saber Tiger has carved a great niche for itself by combining familiar elements to create something that sounds like them, and them alone. The surprisingly wide chords for what is essentially a traditional heavy metal band, the relatively low tunings for the style, the mildly proggy song…
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