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 37-2024: Vision Divine – Blood and Angels’ Tears
What is it about concept albums that makes Olaf Thörsen rise above his already lofty standards? ‘Stream of Consciousness‘ (2004) is arguably the best album he ever was a part of, its follow-up ‘The 25th Hour’ (2007) is one of the better Vision Divine albums, and ‘Blood and Angels’ Tears’…
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Album of the Week 21-2024: Witherfall – Sounds of the Forgotten
If you like various types of metal and rock, and you don’t want your band to be constrained by genre limitations, there are two things you can do. You can either throw loads of stuff against the wall, hoping some of it will stick, or you can be Witherfall. The…
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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 08-2024: Tang Dynasty – Mángcì
The black sheep of Tang Dynasty’s discography is actually my second favorite album of theirs. Second only after the near-flawless sophomore album ‘Yǎnyì’, better known in the western world as ‘Epic’. Sure, ‘Mángcì’ (‘Thorn’) sounds different from the band’s earliest works in the sense that its overall sound is significantly…
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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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Album of the Week 04-2024: NMK – Ravenous Spectre
Out of all the Peruvian bands I have dug into over the past few weeks, NMK is probably the one with potentially the biggest international appeal. And it’s not for the reason you might be thinking of. Sure, the lyrics on the band’s debut album ‘Ravenous Spectre‘ are in English,…
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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 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 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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