There are three things you should know about Black Mountain:
1. Social work is their day job - in a centre for recovering drug addicts
2. Lead singer Stephen McBean has an awesome beard
3. They rock...
Their new album Wilderness Heart is due for release on September 13th and will be well worth a listen. For those of you who like your riffs heavy, your imagery occult, and your organ present on most if not every track, I suggest you give this record some heavy rotation.
Incidentally on the subject of Black Mountain, there used to be a fantastic literary journal called the Black Mountain Review, which I believe was affiliated to Black Mountain College in North Carolina. The journal was the mouthpiece for many pioneering writers of the time - including Charles Olson and Robert Creely. Perhaps more innovative than their musical namesakes, but at least our BM score points in that they are still a functional group.
Black Mountain: The Hair Song
NB: Bonus marks if you get the pictorial pun.
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