Happy post-Thanksgiving, everyone! Hope you all are having a wonderful time with your loved ones, or, if applicable, a warm, introspective time to yourself. To those who still get up butt early trying to catch big saving sales today, Godspeed to you!

I haven’t done the Video Jukebox in a while, and decided this time I would drop y’all a Black Friday edition. Given the amount of bands, song titles and albums featuring the word “black” in it, I had a tough time narrowing it down to five tunes. Fair warning, these five are on the heavier side, but the heavier side is well-known as being paved crepuscular. Bird-in-hand. Raven, as it were.

Not much else preamble other than to mention my choice of the Ronnie James Dio-led Black Sabbath over Ozzy Osbourne is due to watching the Heavy Metal animated film last night (I also prefer Dio to Ozzy in voice), and “My War” from Black Flag (in my opinion, the most dangerous song ever dropped) has a scene of prominence inside my novel Revolution Calling.

Be safe out there amongst the crazies on holiday launch weekend, and hope these tracks give you a little extra bounce. Or something.

The Rolling Stones – “Paint it Black”

White Zombie – “Black Sunshine”

Megadeth – “Good Mourning/Black Friday”

Black Sabbath – “The Mob Rules”

Black Flag – “My War”

–Ray Van Horn, Jr.