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 52-2024: ADX – L’Empire du Crépuscule
Out of the first generation of French heavy metal bands, ADX is the only one that releases music that matches the quality of their eighties heyday, in my opinion. Even with that in mind, however, ‘L’Empire du Crépuscule’ is a pleasant surprise. Its predecessors ‘Bestial’ (2020) and ‘Non Serviam’ (2016)…
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Album of the Week 36-2024: Flotsam and Jetsam – I Am the Weapon
When bands from the eighties release something worthwhile these days, it often gets designated as a “best since” release. The implication being that it’s good, but not as good as the classics. One band that is at least as good today as they were in the eighties, possibly even better,…
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EP of the Week 34.5-2024: Lovebites – Lovebites EP II
Just over seven years ago, ‘The Lovebites EP’ was released. Despite the history that some of the band members had in a couple of underground bands that gigged fairly frequently – Destrose most notably – it was the first introduction for many people to the music of the band that…
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Album of the Week 33-2024: Horcas – El Diablo
For veteran heavy metal acts, there isn’t much incentive to release something that is better than good enough to keep them touring for a couple more years. Not sure if it works quite the same in Horcas’ native Argentina, but it seems like it does. That is exactly why any…
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Album of the Week 31-2024: Volcano – Tenka-Musou
‘Tenka-Musou’ is Volcano focusing on its biggest strengths. Plain and simple. In that sense, the four year break between ‘Tenka-Musou’ and its direct predecessor ‘Godspeed’ seems to have done the band well. Where that album had moments of subtle experimentation to mix up the band’s tried-and-true formula a bit, largely…
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Album of the Week 20-2024: Kerry King – From Hell I Rise
‘From Hell I Rise’ is a fairly unique solo debut situation for an established metal guitarist in that it is basically an extension of Kerry King’s old band, rather than a vehicle for something he couldn’t express with his main band. Now that Slayer isn’t recording anymore, everybody expected King’s…
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Album of the Week 16-2024: Miserable – Al Abismo de la Libertad
Miserable has got to be one of the most productive metal bands in Peru. ‘Al Abismo de la Libertad’ is their third album of original material in six years, and like its predecessors, it is a breath of fresh air within the thrash metal landscape. They can riff viciously whenever…
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Album of the Week 07-2024: Morbid Saint – Swallowed by Hell
Full disclosure: I did not expect Morbid Saint’s first proper post-reunion album ‘Swallowed by Hell’ to be anywhere near as good as it is. Thrashers their age often end up sounding tired or neutered by modern production techniques, and given the fact that Morbid Saint is known primarily for its…
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Album of the Week 05-2024: Jenner – Prove Them Wrong
Jenner’s debut album ‘To Live is to Suffer’ impressed me with its surprisingly mature approach to thrash metal songwriting. Guitarist and main songwriter Aleksandra Stamenković is one of the few young thrashers that realizes a good thrash song needs more than just a bunch of fast riffs and a handful…
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