Songs from Black Mountain
| Songs from Black Mountain | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | April 10, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | May 2005 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, post-grunge, hard rock | |||
| Length | 42:23 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Producer | Jim Wirt | |||
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| Singles from Songs from Black Mountain | ||||
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 50/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Alternative Addiction | |
| Billboard | unfavorable |
| Entertainment Weekly | B− |
| musicOMH | |
| Paste | 1/10 |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Slant Magazine | |
Songs from Black Mountain is the eighth studio album by Live. It was released in most countries on April 10, 2006, but was released on May 9 in Canada, May 29 in the UK and June 6 in the US. It was their only release through Epic Records. The first single, "The River", was released on March 21, 2006. It is the last album to feature lead vocalist Ed Kowalczyk before his departure from the band in 2009. It is also the final studio album to feature the original lineup (Kowalczyk, Chad Taylor, Patrick Dahlheimer, Chad Gracey). Kowalcyzk rejoined in 2016, but Taylor, Dahlheimer, and Gracey were all fired from the band by the end of 2022.
Although the album had some international success, including reaching number 1 in the Netherlands, it had the lowest US sales of any of Live's studio albums since their first album, Mental Jewelry, peaking at number 52 on the Billboard 200.