Black Wooden

In high summer of 2007, PHIL ELVERUM, in the guise of MOUNT EERIE, found his way to Southern Studios, armed with a borrowed guitar, some notebook paper, and with little time before an evening gig, Mount Eerie and Southern's engineer HARVEY BIRRELL recorded the six songs of Black Wooden. Black Wooden is the coming together of ideas that had traveled with Mount Eerie for months and had solidified into compositions in the days and hours before the studio session. The title itself refers acutely to the genre black metal-perhaps less surprising a reference considering black metal often shares Mount