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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Album of the Week 43-2026: Xentrix – Allied with the Enemy
How Xentrix does it is beyond me, but their post-reunion work manages to make complete sense as follow-ups to ‘Shattered Existence’ (1989) and ‘For Whose Advantage?’ (1990) without sounding even the slightest bit dated. That is less common than one might expect from thrash metal veterans, as most of the…
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Album of the Week 41-2026: Forbidden – Forbidden
Since Forbidden’s second split about a decade and a half ago, guitarist Craig Locicero has always been very vocal about not wanting to revive the band without singer Russ Anderson. Hearing Imagika’s Norman Skinner perform with Bay Area Interthrasional changed his mind, and that is a great thing, because that…
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Album of the Week 39-2026: ADX – 13ème Choc
How many bands that have been around for over forty years can say that they are releasing their best material these days? The last three original ADX studio albums have been every bit as good as their classic material, and they somehow manage to maintain their classic heavy/speed metal sound…
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Album of the Week 33-2026: Flotsam and Jetsam – Rats in the Temple
Even though Flotsam and Jetsam is a classic thrash metal band, they are actually experiencing their heyday right now. Since their current line-up materialized about a decade ago, they have released highlight after highlight, and ‘Rats in the Temple’ is no different. Admittedly, the first two singles off the album…
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Album of the Week 22-2026: Eternal Evil – Forever Feared
One of the most irritatingly untrue opinions frequently encountered in my work as a music journalist is that there are hardly any good young bands anymore. This was never true, but one thing that especially stands out lately is just how much young talent there is in the old school…
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Album of the Week 19-2026: Eradikated – Wiring of Violence
What a relief when a young band that is advertised as thrash metal actually plays thrash metal. Too often, labels, managements and PR agencies have the tendency to throw the thrash label around for death metal bands that aren’t very blastbeat-heavy or – even worse – relatively uptempo metalcore. On…
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Check Out Joad Manuel Jiménez’ ‘Retrospective’
One of the best things to come out of Venezuelan Metal Season for me was befriending Joad Manuel Jiménez. For those of you who don’t know: Joad was the singer of Venezuelan heavy metal pioneers Arkangel from 1994 to 2002, and then again from 2015 to 2016. After leaving Arkangel…
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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…