In the time that we’ve worked together, they’ve also become dear friends of mine. You already know that these three are incredible writers with truly deep knowledge of the style. The rest of the Black Market guys - that’s Ian Chainey, Aaron Lariviere, and Wyatt Marshall - will handle the column going forward. It has been a privilege to be part of this community. Genuine thanks to all of you guys for reading (and reading, and reading) these columns, and for offering your own thoughts on this crazy music in the comments. The Black Market unofficially began when the current contributors helped SG editor Michael Nelson assemble a Best Metal Albums post back in 2012, and five years seems like a nice round number to stop on. I’ve just been writing about metal for a very long time, since I was in high school, and the time has come to move on. This may sound cryptic or dramatic, but it really isn’t. Second, I (Doug) won’t be back in the new year to implement these changes, for personal reasons. The goal is a version of The Black Market that you guys can reasonably get through in a sitting.

So we’re gonna cut back to covering 10 songs a month, and abbreviate the intro essay.

Covering everything worth hearing in this vibrant musical niche is basically impossible in the space of one column, and the 15-song setup we’ve historically used feels like an unwieldy attempt to do so. Put simply, future editions of the column will be shorter than the current format has been. Before we begin our discussion of the fantastic year for underground metal that was 2017, a few orders of business:įirst, 2018 will see some adjustments to the Black Market, the monthly metal column whose contributors assembled this list.

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