Speed Metal Album Reviews
Every Speed Metal record the editors have reviewed, scored out of ten.
5 reviews
9.0
Helloween
Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I
The first true map of power metal, and only half the continent
Julien Vasseur
Aug 23, 2026
8.8
Blind Guardian
Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Eleven songs of genuine grandeur, and eleven fragments that are not songs.
Julien Vasseur
May 23, 2026
8.0
Sodom
The Arsonist
Analogue drums, four decades in, and nowhere to play it.
Declan Rourke
May 16, 2026
7.5
Darkthrone
It Beckons Us All.......
It Beckons Us All opens with "Howling Primitive Colonies," immediately immersing listeners in a dense, doom-laden atmosp...
Eirik Solvang
Jun 8, 2024
7.5
Enforcer
Nostalgia
A speed band reaching for the big rock album, and mostly getting there
Saint Sylveszter
Oct 14, 2023