Langdon Hickman

The longtime grindcore stalwarts' new album continues to push the envelope, one that the band helped define long ago.

In this special roundup, Langdon Hickman details five varied but recent heavy albums to highlight his trials with depressive/anxious episodes, heightened self-expectations, and a world at large gone mad.

Applying the maximums of brutal death metal with a thoughtful extension of technicality, Cytotoxin mutates their formula for their fourth full-length album. Here's our full review.

Langdon plunges into the Canadian metal band's latest album, which weaves together European power metal and melodic death metal into a virtuosic spectacle.

Finding a crucial balance between brutality and complexity, Question's second full-length is a skillful effort -- here's our full review of the album.

The black metal world was gifted with a surprise new Krallice album last week -- after about one billion listens over the weekend, here's where we arrived with our thoughts.

We break down six especially adept death metal albums released this year to summon the vivid and sometimes terrifying sounds of the last seven months.

We dive into the sixth Haken album "Virus" in all of its progressive, hook-laden, and outlandish glory.

Heavy metal and thrash pack the cartridges of New Zealand's Bulletbelt, with a primer of black metal to spark off the destruction. Read our review of their fourth record "Warlords" now.

In this edition, Langdon follows threads of loss and self-destruction through tumultuous and dark realms of his life where echoes of Immolation lead the way either to salvation… or eternal mind-death.