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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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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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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