Billy The Mountain

Welcome to our official site made possible by our fans. We are knocked out by the support we get from the hip people who find our music truly cool, because we are a very low key ‘experience’ doing music for the love of it, and trying to make sure that the music we like, you will like too. Our first album the labor of love Drifting To Valhalla has been a fantastic underground success on Drifting To Valhalla and we’re working on a second album now called Born on Mars.  Funky, rocky, jazzy…you know…BILLY THE MOUNTAIN!

New Single! Wild Water

Switching our strategy as a band, we have released our first new single on www.tunecore.com, www.noisehead.com and Drifting To Valhalla in a series of singles to be launched over the next 8-12 months we told reporters at the April 25th Nashville press launch of the new single Wild Water. The series of singles will be launched under the umbrella of a working album title Born On Mars. The single debuted on Drifting To Valhalla July 2009.

“The band’s last album Drifting To Valhalla did well across the net especially on Drifting To Valhalla but the single song Mem Will Dance outsold all the other tracks by a margin of five or six times. And when you think about it, fans often fall in love with just one or two songs so we’re working to give the widest cross section of BTM fans at least one song to like well enough and buy. And once we’ve got the best selling singles qualified and compiled, we can compile them on an album of Greatest Hits called Born On Mars for everyone else to buy – just in time for Christmas!”

The feedback on the new song Wild Water from US radio stations, European producer forums, private showcases and industry pundits has been “phenomenal” frontman Zander Ran said.

“It’s a moving anti-war song inspired by the kids who went to ‘fight’ in Iraq for a government bounty and never came back.” The single is available on Drifting To Valhalla and other key retail sites farmed by Tunecore.com.

“Nicolai’s (Kehlet) production and arrangement is once again totally state of the art and his guitar playing and tones surely justify his reputation as one of rock’s best producers working today. And the band just love his studio in Bangkok and the satellite studios like Gann’s Dynamic Studio he uses around town. The band is blessed to have so many cool people around them and watching out for their final sound and personality,” Ran said.

BTM Again Tops US Indie Chart

Bangkok-based jam blues rock band Billy The Mountain have been told by their Stateside management that they have once again topped one of the most important indie charts in America at www.songplanet.com. Their hit single Mem Will Dance from the April 2008 album Drifting To Valhalla sits at Number One again on the Songplanet Top 100 song chart.

Band manager Tom Gray, speaking from Nashville where the band has just released its latest single Wild Water, said the band – busy in the studio – were ‘ecstatic’ on the news especially since the album was released more than a year ago and was still making major waves in the US market.

“And sales on Drifting To Valhalla have been phenomenal with Mem Will Dance leading the way in individual downloads there too. And topping any Songplanet chart is a major achievement and great news for the band, especially ahead of the new album Born On Mars which is being released this year as a series of singles first. The first song, Wild Water – an anti-war song dedicated to the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan – leads the charge and we have very high hopes for this collection of brilliant songs too,” he said.

BTM Tops Indie Chart

Billy the Mountain are currently still charting third on one of the Internet’s top Indie sites with their song Mem Will Dance high on the Songplanet chart for nearly a year since the band’s debut album Drifting To Valhalla was released in April 2008. The band, based in Thailand, are currently working on a second album at Paradise Studios in Bangkok.

UK Fanzine Features Billy The Mountain

Major British Indie site www.bandfortheday.com have just published their 2008 annual 60pp round up fanzine and included an interview with Billy The Mountain from Page 12…check it out!