Mount Eerie to Release 'Black Metal' LP in August

When Phil Elverum released his awe inspiring Mount Eerie album, it felt a little like a black-metal record. Epic, conceptual, referencing classic literature and snow-drenched, windswept nature; telling a tale of man questioning spirituality, seeking to understand the cosmos. After he made it, Elverum even retreated to a cabin in remote, Northern Norway during an Arctic winter, plunging himself into literal isolationism.

Okay, maybe Mount Eerie lack'd the logo and facepaint and could've done with a lot more tinny treble, but, hey, work with me here. The album served an obvious landmark in that, to that point, Elverum had recorded as The Microphones, but after it he begun calling himself Mount Eerie.

The latest LP from the prolific, ever-traveling songsmith fulfills this surmised black-metal promise. Wind's Poem, the third 'official' Mount Eerie album, is a record inspired by time Elverum spent in the Northwest Washington woods, listening to the wind; album channeling black-metal's wind-blown sound and Twin Peaks' "mystery of the woods." The owls, indeed, are not what they seem.

Elverum describes Wind's Poem as a work of "impermanence, dark change, destruction, temporary blossoming, mortality, and an immense river of air tearing through the world." It shall be released August 18 on his own P.W. Elverum & Sun label, and will be supported by a fall tour in which Mount Eerie will function as a full band featuring "two drummers, some gongs, and a wall of amps." Heavy.

• Interview: Mount Eerie

Wind's Poem Track List:
1. "Wind's Dark Poem"
2. "Through the Trees"
3. "My Heart Is Not at Peace"
4. "The Hidden Stone"
5. "Wind Speaks"
6. "Summons"
7. "The Mouth of Sky"
8. "Between Two Mysteries"
9. "Ancient Questions"
10. "(something)"
11. "Lost Wisdom Pt. 2"
12. "Stone's Ode"