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 02-2024: Miserable – Gran Náusea
When ‘Gran Náusea’ was recorded, Miserable was still pretty much the solo project of Adrián Del Aguila, fresh off releasing his first album with M.A.S.A.C.R.E after a decade fronting that band. But two things are clear immediately: one is that this material couldn’t really have worked within what M.A.S.A.C.R.E was…
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Best of 2023: The Albums
As announced, my list of the best albums released in 2023 is a day early in order to fully devote January to Peruvian Metal Month, but that should not have any effect on the actual list. Once again, it wasn’t too difficult to fill the list with twenty titles. After…
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Announcement: Peruvian Metal Month
Exciting news! January will be Peruvian Metal Month on Kevy Metal. What does that mean? For starters, every interview that will be published here throughout the month will be with a metal musician from Peru, and each of the four Album of the Week reviews will be about releases by…
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Album of the Week 51-2023: Malón – Oscuro Plan del Poder
Although I have always preferred Malón to Hermética – the wildly popular Argentine metal band it spun off from – due to their lack of upbeat, punky tracks and overly long ballads, it has been a while since they actually released an album I enjoyed. That sounds worse than it…
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Album of the Week 39-2023: Miserable – Esclavo Miserable
Even the best newer thrash metal bands tend to sound so much like the classic bands from the eighties that they ultimately end up feeling like watered-down versions of those bands. Part of the problem might be that the parameters of what constitutes thrash metal are quite narrow. However, Peru’s…
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Album of the Week 25-2023: Jenner – To Live is to Suffer
It always makes me extremely happy to hear young bands who realize there is more to thrash metal than just speed and aggression. There just aren’t all that many who do. Serbia’s Jenner fortunately does and already manages to impress greatly on their debut album ‘To Live is to Suffer’.…
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Album of the Week 24-2023: Leather – We Are the Chosen
Human voices change with age. That is unavoidable. Singers adapt their voices or their parts to it, but in a full-force singing genre like heavy metal, there is often some loss of power. And singers with a bit of grit somehow tend to be the first to deteriorate. Not Leather…
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Album of the Week 21-2023: Metal Church – Congregation of Annihilation
Surely Kurdt Vanderhoof is one of the very few songwriters in heavy metal who writes material specifically to suit the voices of the singers he works with rather than the other way around. What other explanation is there for ‘Congregation of Annihilation’, the first Metal Church album with new singer…
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Album of the Week 14-2023: OverKill – Scorched
Veteran thrash metal bands are in a curious position when it comes to new material. Their audiences don’t expect them to be as impressed by a new album as they were by their classic releases. It just needs to be good enough to keep the tour bus rolling for a…
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