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 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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Album of the Week 36-2025: Helstar – The Devil’s Masquerade
Anyone who thinks that Helstar’s post-reunion albums sound a bit too modern should definitely give ‘The Devil’s Masquerade’ a spin. While no one will mistake the album for one of Helstar’s earlier works, not in the least because it has a thick, beefy production job, it is notably less borderline…
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Album of the Week 25-2025: Sodom – The Arsonist
Out of all the classic German thrash metal bands, Sodom is arguably the one that found the best balance between sticking to their guns and evolving their sound. Having said that, their previous original studio effort ‘Genesis XIX’ (2020) had a certain looseness that I didn’t think benefit their sound.…
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Album of the Week 20-2025: Cryptosis – Celestial Death
Four years ago, Cryptosis’ debut album ‘Bionic Swarm‘ completely blew me away. The sci-fi inspired thrash metal with prominent symphonic elements of the Dutch trio sounded unlike anything I had ever heard before, making it breath of fresh air that a scene full of Voivod and Vektor soundalikes needed. The…
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