Here you go. Our favorite albums of 2024. This is also the final Black Market and my last column. It was an honor writing alongside Wyatt, Doug, Aaron, and Mike. Thank you to Stereogum for putting up with me. And thank you for reading!

This is, understandably, my last post here. Same handle around the web. I'm a little more active everywhere else. I hope we can catch up somewhere down the line.

RT @wyattbmarshall: After 11+ years, we’re shutting down the Black Market @stereogum, our monthly metal column. Thanks to the readers, @ste…

@Mathcoreindex Rest is debatably mathcore, but this song definitely is.

@Mathcoreindex People don't know it yet. But they will soon enough.

As I plot my escape from social media, just a reminder that I have two of these, and I just updated one of them.

RT @MachineMusic81: A deserving send off by a deserving voice.

Giving thanks to Menegroth this Thanksgiving. Blurbs for Effluence, Morgue Breath, Defeated Sanity, and Submerged. Profile on Guck. @wyattbmarshall crushing it, as always.

RT @wyattbmarshall: Thanks for having me on! @greymatterfm @maceagon

@ronofjosenthal Yeah, this whips.

@ronofjosenthal This one is real good for anyone who missed it.

lol

RT @carolinedraws: The rumors, they are true, I’ve finally gotten organized enough to put my print shop together on @ampwall, who I have ve…

RT @ronofjosenthal: Stellar Descent is dead (for now). Say hello to a new project.

@ronofjosenthal A short one.

@DethAndOpeth @TheUnshored Yeah, they have a crazy vocalization range. Lot of gutturals, can do the Predator noise -- perfect brutal death metal singer.

@MachineMusic81 @no_singing I don't know where else to put this, but if you also like this album, the fanbase will be me, you, Islander, Doug, and Rennie, which feels appropriate.

@MachineMusic81 You accidentally linked to me when you should be linking to yourself.