Artist Black Mountain

Jessica Miller

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Black Mountain

Black Mountain’s self-titled 2005 debut heaved with thick, druggy dirges and Sabbath-laden riffs—so much so that the Vancouver group seemed poised to charge Queens Of The Stone Age’s stoner-rock castle, unkempt beards flapping wildly in the wind. Followed by 2008’s In The Future, the highly touted release maintained Black Mountain’s psychedelic meanderings and throbbing, old-fashioned riff-rock. The group’s new Wilderness Heart moves Amber Webber’s house-shaking howl alongside frontman Stephen McBean, and their potent chemistry has remade Black Mountain as a stoner-rock Fleetwood Mac on the band’s slickest, most pop-friendly record yet.

Updated 10/20/2010