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

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.

Five of us teamed up to reflect on last month's spew of releases -- from gnarly death metal to lo-fi black metal, we scoured the realms for our favorites.

Hallucinatory, hypnotic, minimal black metal from a colorful hell.