The Black Market

An intro to the intro to the intro: Black lives matter. I support the protests against police brutality held in response to the…

Heads up: Wyatt is grabbing the intro reins this month as he takes a deep dive into the Netherlands' flourishing black metal scene. …

Some of the cuts that COVID-19 has slashed into the arts and entertainment side of culture have been cauterized thanks to humanity’s knack for acclimation.

There are only two things I'm capable of writing with any degree of honesty. 1. Hey. It’s, uh, been a month. …

Metallica’s "Enter Sandman." You know it by heart. The avalanche of slightly off-kilter downstrokes punctuated by Lars Ulrich’s perfect snare hits. The way it hurtles…

Black Sabbath’s Black Sabbath turns 50 on 2/13. If you’re like me, you’re probably thinking, Wow, 50 years! If traditional heavy metal were a professional…

Welcome to our December Best Of The Rest Blowout. At midnight, 2019 is dead. Let’s remember it one last time before adorable Baby New Year…

Hails, my fellow Black Marketers. Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Black Market Glossary, a reference guide designed to help new readers interpret what…

First, some housekeeping. Our year-end list is going to run sometime next week. Like last year’s edition, it will be a top 10, one informally…

Before I re-watched Trick Or Treat for last year’s intro on Black Roses and heavy metal cinema, I thought about this 1986 movie in two…

Congratulations! You now own a limited edition 15th anniversary d.Marvin Guitars Dieselharp, offered exclusively through a beer can redemption program overseen by Blake Judd's new…

All right, here's how all of this started. I don't know if I should start here, as I realize what I'm about to unleash will…

If you're reading this, it's either (a) July and nothing is going on, (b) other stories fell apart, or (c) I have died and my…

All right, nerds. Jenovavirus. Demo #1. Check this out:…

Back in January, our own Aaron Lariviere completed a true death metal triathlon, playing the full-length discographies of Immolation, Incantation, and Gorguts back-to-back-to-back over a…