The Black Market: The Month In Metal – January 2014
Earlier this week, Mötley Crüe found themselves a "trending topic" for the first time this millennium when they announced they would break up next year -- after some three and a half decades as a band...
View ArticleThe Black Market: The Month In Metal – February 2015
At the very end of January, a few days after last month's Black Market was published, Tom interviewed Wes Borland -- the guitar player in Limp Bizkit who dresses like he accidentally went onstage with...
View ArticleThe 50 Best Metal Albums Of 2015
If we're just talking about the music -- and isn't that, like, the thing we're talking about here? -- then 2015 was a great year for metal. That should come as no surprise. The genre (to the the extent...
View ArticleThe Black Market: The Month In Metal – February 2017
If you need a good barometer for the current national mood in the United States, look no further than the Washington Post. Last Wednesday, the Post added a new motto to its masthead, right beneath the...
View ArticleThe Best Metal Albums Of 2017
Before we begin our discussion of the fantastic year for underground metal that was 2017, a few orders of business: … More »
View ArticleThe Black Market: The Month In Metal – May 2018
To start, a confession: I still daydream about being a professional baseball player. Indeed, despite blowing out my arm decades ago messing around with the world's straightest slider, every June I...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Metal Albums Of 2018
First, some housekeeping. In place of what would have been November’s Black Market column, you are now (in early December) getting our TOP 10 METAL ALBUMS OF THE YEAR (*terrifying thunderclap*) MINUS A...
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