Black Mountain : Black Mountain : Review : Rolling Stone

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 on the spaced-out single "Druganaut" and the low-fi Rolling Stones homage "No Satisfaction." Black Mountain somehow caught the ears of Coldplay, who invited the band to open for them on much of their North American tour. It's a weird pairing (especially if Black Mountain plan on breaking out the synth-heavy "No Hits," with the lyric "Lemme holler against the pop-star dream"), but there's no doubt that the band's Monsters of Rock sound is arena-ready.