Vancouver’s hard rocking Polaris Music Prize nominated Black Mountain have been putting out albums for close to 15 years dating back to their 2005 self titled debut from Jagjaguwar Records. Their most recent album Destroyer, released earlier this year in May of 2019 through Toronto based independent record label Dine Alone Records, is the psychedelic quintet’s first record of new material since their 2016 IV LP.
While lacking the scope, depth and nuance of it’s 2016 predecessor, the 8 track 43 minute long Destroyer album is sure to please the head banging hard rock set with it’s liberal use of 80’s power chords and heavy synth lines in the style of Black Sabbath covering Van Halen’s Jump. Vintage strains of vocoders and mellotrons flourish throughout this bone crushing conglomeration which, by the fifth track (Pretty Little Lazies) begins to sound like the Moody Blues meets OK Computer meets Syd’s Floyd. Total heavyosity ensues, a must have for fans of Wolfmother and Queens Of The Stone Age alike.
Rating 6.5/10
Star Rating 3/5
2019 Song Of The Day Club 23/52