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 02-2019: Gargoyle – Gaia
For some reason, ‘Gaia’ often gets ignored when people discuss the greatest works of Gargoyle. Up until last year’s unfortunate dissolution of the band, the songs on ‘Gaia’ did not even appear on their live sets all that much. Maybe that is a result of the material on the album…
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Album of the Week 01-2019: Vader – De Profundis
Vader is easily my favorite death metal band of the non-progressive variety. Unlike many of their contemporaries and a staggering number of bands that followed them, the Polish band around vocalist and guitarist Piotr ‘Peter’ Wiwczarek knows how to create something memorable if you don’t have a great deal of…
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Album of the Week 39-2018: Doom – Still Can’t The Dead
Some albums are much better than they are supposed to be. With the death of fretless bass wizard Koh Morota, Doom had lost a key member. In addition, their last album before disbanding, released seventeen years prior to ‘Still Can’t The Dead’, wasn’t all that good. And yet, ‘Still Can’t…
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Album of the Week 38-2018: Voivod – The Wake
After ‘Target Earth’ being much better than it had any right to be and the excellent ‘Post Society’ EP, Canadian sci-fi thrashers Voivod had a reputation to live up to. They proved that they could still write a song that their late guitarist Denis ‘Piggy’ D’Amour would be proud of.…
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Album of the Week 30-2018: Volcano – Darker Than Black
‘Darker Than Black’ is Volcano’s fourth original studio album since mid-July 2015. While that may seem a bit excessive, it is also remarkably good. Volcano was always the perfect band for anyone who could not choose between the vicious aggression of thrash metal and the melodic appeal of traditional heavy…
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Album of the Week 26-2018: Iced Earth – Night Of The Stormrider
‘Night Of The Stormrider’ is often mentioned as a favorite by those who followed Iced Earth from the very beginning and it is easy to hear why. The song material is notably more complex than the songs that would make the band a big name less than a decade after…
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Album of the Week 25-2018: Doom – Complicated Mind
One risk when you are listening to Doom is that you will only pay attention to the late Koh Morota’s crazy, but always serviceable work on the fretless bass. Especially when he is put front and center in the mix like he was on the ‘Killing Fields’ EP. However, Doom…
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Album of the Week 20-2018: OverKill – Horrorscope
While OverKill had line-up changes before guitarist Bobby Gustafson left in 1990, but Gustafson contributed heavily to the songwriting. Therefore, there must have been some sense of anticipation leading up to the release of 1991’s ‘Horrorscope’. It was the first OverKill record with two guitarist – always a plus –…
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Album of the Week 14-2018: Skyclad – A Burnt Offering For The Bone Idol
Before folk metal became synonymous with heavy drinking songs – that being either heavy songs for drinking or songs for heavy drinking – Skyclad managed to blend folk and heavy metal in an intelligent and reasonably complex manner. For the British band, the folk influences were there to enhance the…