Langdon Hickman

Frozen Soul starts 2021 death metal off strong with a record that delivers on their early potential, taking clear notes from the genre’s lineage but putting their own frosty spin on it. Read our full review.

Langdon Hickman’s top picks for the year range from the emotionally harrowing to just plain kickass.

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.