Black Mountain (band)

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Black Mountain
Black Mountain performing at the Mercury Lounge, New York City on October 10, 2007.
Background information
Origin	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Genre(s)	Indie rock Psychedelic Rock
Years active	2004–present
Label(s)	Jagjaguwar
Associated acts	Pink Mountaintops Jerk With a Bomb Blood Meridian Lightning Dust Sinoia Caves Ex-Dead Teenager
Website	www.blackmountainarmy.com
Members
Matt Camirand Stephen McBean Jeremy Schmidt Amber Webber Joshua Wells

Black Mountain is a Canadian indie-rock band composed of Stephen McBean, Amber Webber, Matt Camirand, Jeremy Schmidt and Joshua Wells.

Leader Stephen McBean also heads another similarly named band, Pink Mountaintops, who are the more experimental side of McBean's musical abilities. Black Mountain is the front line band for Black Mountain Army, a collective of musicians, artists and friends in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

By day, three members of the band work for an organization (Insite) that meets the basic living requirements of the chronically poor, drug addicted and mentally ill near Vancouver's infamous Main & Hastings intersection, in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, widely considered to be the heroin capital of Canada, if not North America. The name "Black Mountain" could be a reference to a large pile of hashish or simply the mountain of the same name which lies predominant on the city's North Shore skyline. " Black Mountain has released two LPs, In The Future (2008) and Black Mountain (2005), and 2 EPs Druganaut (2004) and Bastards of Light (2008) on the Jagjaguwar label. A split single with Destroyer was released in Fall 2004 on Spirit of Orr. The "Stormy High" single was released in 2006 on Suicide Squeeze records.

Also, in 2005, the band opened for Coldplay on their Twisted Logic Tour for three weeks, with their final opening in San Diego. Their self-titled album was chosen as one of Amazon.com's Top 100 Editor's Picks of 2005.

They recently were featured on the soundtrack for the box-office hit movie Spider-Man 3, with their song "Stay Free".

A vinyl single was released in April 2007 named "Surrender Sound Session: Unkle vs. Autolux/Black Mountain" with a remix of "No Hits" on the B side.

In a recent 10th anniversary edition of Uncut, the band was mentioned in its included "Book of Rock Revelations."