“Future Shade” – Black Mountain

Originally published by Alt Citizen

Black Mountain's Stephen McBean quipped in a 2016 interview that the band had toyed with calling their then-upcoming fourth album "Our Strongest Material To Date." IV was indeed colossal and saw the band expanding their signature heavy psych sound with out of this world electronics and space age synths, but after that massive achievement the Vancouver rockers fell silent, hibernating for what has felt like an age.

“Future Shade” is the first single from their upcoming and hotly anticipated LP Destroyer and what a welcome return it is. A guitar forward wall of sound, tall and imposing, its peak enshrouded in wispy clouds of analog synths. The track is organic and primal, like an ancient thing that has never been vanquished but dares to be conquered by its sheer magnitude. McBean’s vocals forge a path to the summit, encouraged by the Valkyrie-like wail of Sleepy Sun’s Rachel Fannan on the chorus riding an avalanche of icy riffs and punishing rhythms.

Destroyer is out May 24th via Jagjaguwar. If IV was Black Mountain’s strongest material to date, this album could very well be one of the best of all time. Get ready.