Black Mountain

Once you get past the sensible pop opener, the rest of Black Mountain's debut album takes you on a heavy rock journey with mammoth guitars, ham-fisted rhythms and smoky male/female vocals. Fans of Wolfmother and Black Sabbath will feel right at home here, as will anyone who digs good songs cloaked in fuzzy space rock.

Near the end of "modern music," a groovy sax-fueled nugget and the first song on their
debut album, Black Mountain announce their true intention: The band downshifts into a
viking ship of a riff and turns into an indie-rock version of Black Sabbath. Flying in the face
of arch Eighties revivalism, the Vancouver fivesome melds heavy-metal thunder, black-light
psychedelia and blues-powered sludge into a stylish brand of stoner rock -- as o... More >