BLACK METAL!!!!

[Murph]

So is the consensus that this song will indeed be available for purchase tonight at midnight? Or is it one of those wait until tomorrow morning type deals?

I have no idea about that, but it is up on youtube already.

My Morning Jacket- Holding on to Black Metal

[walterfredo]

Awesome, other non facebookers! We're a dying breed, we got to stick together...it's a jungle out there.

[ericm]

so you have to have a facebook account to listen to this.....booooooooh!!

Im with you walter.  How do the folk who havent joined the facebook cult get their new MMJ goodies?  Frowny face...

no facebook for me but my teenaged son thought it was cool so he let me listen on his page.  still no plans for me to join facebook but glad i got to listen.

No FB for me either, and I thought I was the only one left!  ;)

Finally got to listen thanks to the posts on this page. 8)

[rincon]

Whatever one thinks of this song, these guys got balls. Very little identifies it as MMJ. I think Jim made up his mind with Z that he would not be predictable, and do what HE wants, and after it filters into the fans brains it clearly becomes an MMJ song. Not sure how much I like it yet, by I sure respect the left field curve ball stuff. Makes Circuital sound like an old classic.

[el_chode]

Ugh. As a Thai Pop purist, it disgusts me that some gun-toting, "we're the best country in the world" Americans come over and make it cool to like my beloved Thai pop. Now its too mainstream and I need to go find another genre to be superior about. I'd tell you what it is, but all you poseurs on this message board would just go and make it uncool by listening to it.

[Ruckus]

Ugh. As a Thai Pop purist, it disgusts me that some gun-toting, "we're the best country in the world" Americans come over and make it cool to like my beloved Thai pop. Now its too mainstream and I need to go find another genre to be superior about. I'd tell you what it is, but all you poseurs on this message board would just go and make it uncool by listening to it.

Eat my balls Chode

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

Ugh. As a Thai Pop purist, it disgusts me that some gun-toting, "we're the best country in the world" Americans come over and make it cool to like my beloved Thai pop. Now its too mainstream and I need to go find another genre to be superior about. I'd tell you what it is, but all you poseurs on this message board would just go and make it uncool by listening to it.

it's like srsly?  I still can't believe they used guitars on this track. 

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

that scream towards the end is going to be so juicy live.  it's going to rip faces clean off like butter. right at the "I want to blow" then it's like "YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA yea yea yea yayo!!!"(oh whatever).  best part. 

[oistheone]

I'm trying to avoid listening to it via stream -- I just want to download it and pop it on my iPod so I can listen to it in an environment of my choosing. However, something tells me I'm going to have to wait until the early hours of the morn before it becomes available to purchase. It's already available on amazon.co.uk but us North American folk can't download from there.

[wamsankas]

its on itunes under the circuital preorder... which is only 7.99.. but black metal is only .99 and full track list is there

[the_wizzard]

again.. this song is honest to god rock and roll and i can't believe that there are some people whining and finding things negative to say about it.

What he said...

I, for one, cannot fucking wait to throw down some funky dance grooves to this...it is ON!

[Tracy 2112]

[Ruckus]

YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[oistheone]

This song could totally be a Bond theme.

[CodyT3212]

I think in time people will realize its a classic. Its fuckin weird and makes you think "wtf!? this is mmj!?" but at the same time you love it and can't explain why. Then again I'm one of the people who loved Highly Suspicious from the get-go...so...yeah.

Also, on another forum i saw where some guy said that this song will "evoke a Smells Like Teen Spirit type response" from the public  ;D. For one, things like that don't happen in music anymore. The market has changed and culture has shifted significantly, not to mention we're all a bunch of jaded fucks. Secondly, even if songs DID have that kind of impact these days, I don't think this would even come close to being the one to do it. Its a great, far out track but i don't even think it will do modestly well on radio to be honest.  :-\ I mean, I'm Amazed is their only charting single in America right? Adult Contemporary if I'm not mistaken....and if a song like that can't crack the airwaves this surely won't.

[Ruckus]

After two more listens this morning, I'm completely sold on it. 

[jones]

I think that it sounds a lot like the Hawaii Five O theme song.

Oh yeah, and this: Black Metal > Circuital.

[Bigsky]

These boys never stop...they just keep melting my face...and I just keep holdin on...to Black Metal!

[bold992006]

Big disappointment if this is a track on the album compared to circuital which i really love.  Hopefully the mix is better as well, i can barely understand what they are saying as the sound is just off.  Im as big as a fan as they get as i was at all 5 nights in nyc but just not feeling this one.

I have to agree..this song does nothing for me...I kept waiting for it to change but it really doesn't do much.

[walterfredo]

I think that it sounds a lot like the Hawaii Five O theme song.

Off the Record=Hawaii Five O theme song...at least the openings notes of it.