Black Honey (song)

"Black Honey"
Single by Thrice
from the album To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere
ReleasedApril 27, 2016
Recorded2015
StudioPalmquist Studios
Genre
Length3:49
LabelVagrant
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Eric Palmquist
Thrice singles chronology
"Blood on the Sand"
(2016)
"Black Honey"
(2016)
"Hurricane"
(2017)

"Black Honey" is a song by American rock band Thrice. The song was released on April 27, 2016 as the second single from their ninth studio album, To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere. It was the first single the band released following their hiatus in 2012 and subsequent reunion in 2015. The political track uses the imagery of a man swatting at a beehive in search of honey as a metaphor for the creation of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as a consequence of United States involvement in the Middle East, using the titular "black honey" as a euphemism for oil. The song was a large comeback hit for the band, charting at No. 11 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, their highest-charting single to date and their first charting single since "Image of the Invisible" in 2005.