 The band publicly announced that if those tracks were leaked online, they would release the album immediately via the iTunes Store.Several months later, the finished album was leaked online, but the band did not release it earlier, despite previous comments.In late 2004, "Mercy", an unreleased track taken from the "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" sessions, surfaced on the Internet through a fan who had been given a copy of the album containing the extra track.