Thrash Metal Reviews
Except for maybe power metal, there probably aren’t any genres I listened to more in my life than thrash metal. The high tempos, intricate riffing and overall intensity of the genre greatly appeal to me. As a result, thrash metal releases have been covered in my Album of the Week reviews frequently. Thrash metal reviews published on Kevy Metal can be found on this page. Minor overlaps with my heavy metal reviews or even my power metal reviews might exist, since I do particularly like the more melodic side of the thrash metal spectrum.
Since I did not start properly tagging my reviews until a couple of years in, some reviews that will not show up below might still exist on the site. Searching for reviews by artist or release title can be done conveniently by using the search bar at the bottom of the page.
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Tools for Discovery: Kat Albums Ranked
One of the most idiosyncratic metal bands of their era, Kat has a fairly unique sound that despite their wide-reaching influence – especially in their native country of Poland – has never quite been imitated. Conventional wisdom will state that Kat plays a blend of heavy metal and thrash metal,…
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Album of the Week 11-2026: Exodus – Goliath
Out of all bands that reunited around the Thrash of the Titans charity concert, Exodus is arguably the one that got the most enduring career and the most consistent set of releases out of it. However, Exodus’ twenty-first century sound is so clearly defined that they were at risk of…
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Album of the Week 06-2026: Leatherhead – Violent Horror Stories
With their 2024 self-titled debut album, Greek old school metalheads Leatherhead already made quite the impression on me, though my overall opinion of that album remains that it shows some potential that was yet to be realized. In all honesty, though, I did not expect them to live up to…
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Album of the Week 05-2026: Megadeth – Megadeth
Farewell albums tend to aim for going out with a bang, but just as frequently see a band fizzling out. To Dave Mustaine’s credit: apart from the lyrics of closing track ‘The Last Note’, he doesn’t seem to weigh down Megadeth’s self-titled album with any grandiose farewell statements. Instead, he…
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Album of the Week 03-2026: Maskhera – Nemesis
Modern metal doesn’t get much more creative than on Maskhera’s sophomore album ‘Nemesis‘. And I don’t just mean in Venezuela. Although the band is mostly known for its groovy post-thrash metal sound, that style doesn’t come with the amount of ambition Maskhera shows here. The songs on the album are…
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Best of 2025: The Albums
We interrupt your regularly scheduled Venezuelan Metal Season for what I think are the twenty best new studio albums of 2025. Like last year, it was quite difficult to limit the list to only twenty titles. Great albums were relesased consistently throughout the year. While I briefly considered expanding the…
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Album of the Week 48-2025: Struck a Nerve – Struck a Nerve
If you get the chorus to the Bad Religion song stuck in your head when reading that band name, rest assured: you are not the only one. There isn’t any melodic hardcore on Struck a Nerve’s debut album, however. In fact, there isn’t much punk at all. Instead, the British…
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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 40-2025: Sanity’s Rage – The Dead Don’t Run
Belgian thrashers Sanity’s Rage released a great debut album in the shape of ‘You Are What You Swallow’ in 2012, and then things went quiet for a while. While they remained active on the live front, it wasn’t until their self-titled single was released ten years later that the band…
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