Canadian outfit BLACK MOUNTAIN was formed in 2004 by Stephen McBean (vocals, guitar), Amber Webber (vocals), Jeremy Schmidt (keyboards), Matthew Camirand (bass) and Joshua Wells (drums). While legend has it that they have come out of a hippie-inspired community knowns as Black Mountain Army, the reality is that this is more of a loosely connected network of friends and aquaintances. Perhaps tighter knit than many others, but still pretty far from the communes of the 60's.

Three of the band's members work for an organization handling basic living requirements for drug addicts, chronically poor and mentally ill people, which has given them as well as the band a somewhat different point of view on certain topics compared to many others.

As far as their musical ventures go, their first creative output was the EP Druganaut issued in 2004, followed by their full length debut album Black Mountain in 2005. In 2007 the inclusion of their song Stay Free for the soundtrack of the movie Spiderman 3 raised their public profile considerably, and they also issued the EP Bastards of Light the same year, initially as a tour only 12 EP.

In 2008 their sophomore full length effort In the Future followed.

Source : http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=5043