Rise Against - 2003 - Revolutions Per Minute (320kbps) KindMetalRG
Style:
Hardcore Punk
FORMED:
1999 in Chicago, Illinois
BIOGRAPHY
Chicago's Rise Against began in 1999 when ex-88 Fingers Louie bassist Joe Principe tapped area vocalist Tim
McIlrath for a new project rooted in the sound and social vision of traditionalist hardcore. Joined by fellow
88 Fingers vet Dan Precision on guitar and, eventually, drummer Brandon Barnes, Rise Against signed to Fat
Wreck and issued The Unraveling in 2001. Precision left the band that same year to be replaced by Todd
Mohney. Extensive touring followed, leading to their sophomore outing, 2002's Revolutions Per Minute. After
solid response from fans and critics alike, as well as a stint on the Warped Tour, Rise Against left the Fat
Wreck fold for DreamWorks/Geffen. By this point, guitar duties were being handled by Chris Chasse (Reach the
Sky). Rise Against made their major-label debut in August 2004 with Siren Song of the Counter Culture. They
toured steadily after the album's release, received plenty of solid press, and even saw Counter Culture crack
the Billboard Top 200. In 2005, Rise Against appeared in the skateboarding film Lords of Dogtown, playing an
old-school Cali punk band. (They performed a rousing version of Black Flag's "Nervous Breakdown" for the
film's soundtrack.) Rise Against continued to tour throughout that summer, including a spot at the U.K.'s
Reading and Leeds festivals in August. Their fourth album, The Sufferer & the Witness, appeared in July 2006
and its debut at number ten on the Billboard Top 200 was their highest yet. The band spent the summer tearing
up Warped's main stage before hooking up with Thursday and Billy Talent that fall. Rise Against continued
playing shows into 2007, but their extensive tour schedule eventually proved to be too much for Chasse, who
bowed out that February. The band solidered on, enlisting Only Crime's Zach Blair to temporarily take his
place.
COVER
RELEASED
Apr 8, 2003
TRACK LIST, TIME, SIZE
1. (00:02:59) Rise Against - Black Masks & Gasoline
2. (00:03:23) Rise Against - Heaven Knows
3. (00:01:32) Rise Against - Dead Ringer
4. (00:03:41) Rise Against - Halfway There
5. (00:02:47) Rise Against - Like The Angel
6. (00:02:17) Rise Against - Voices Off Camera
7. (00:03:39) Rise Against - Blood Red, White, & BLue
8. (00:03:25) Rise Against - Broken English
9. (00:02:14) Rise Against - Last Chance Blueprint
10. (00:01:33) Rise Against - To The Core
11. (00:03:41) Rise Against - Torches
12. (00:03:39) Rise Against - Amber Changing
13. (00:02:57) Rise Against - Any Way You Want It
Playing Time.........: 00:37:46
Total Size...........: 86.46 MB
NFO generated on.....: 7/13/2007 4:49:25 AM
REVIEW
With clenched fists in the air, boots to the floor, and anger swelling in their chests, the members of Rise
Against return with their second album, Revolutions Per Minute. It's a two-pronged attack. From the north
blows the fury of their hearts, swept up as they are in their passion for a girl who is "Like the Angel," but
love that strong almost inevitably eventually engenders the opposite emotions -- and so it is with Rise. And
even as they beg on "Amber Changing" to pretend that tonight will never end, the relationship sours, and even
their "Last Chance Blueprint fails to change the emotional landscape, leaving nothing but hatred it its wake,
reaching a paroxysm of viciousness on "To the Core," a ferocious, fever-pitched number written and delivered
with pure vitriol. If that's the bitter northern wind, bringing with it blizzards of wintry emotions warmed
only by the heat of anger boiling in their hearts, the gale from the south comes as no relief. This, to
continue the metaphor, is the wind of political change that descended with hurricane force on 9/11 and left
all of us, Rise included, reeling in its wake. Across the rest of Revolutions, the bandmembers scan the
wasteland around them and see people running for cover, desperate to find a shred of security again. But as
"Blood-Red, White & Blue" makes clear, safety is an illusion, and our bomb-laden reply futile. "Would God
bless a murder of the innocents?...a war based on pride?...a money-hungry government? No." Desperate for a
real leader, we are left with the blind leading the blind, where "every problem is solved with a fight." "Is
this the point where we give up?...give in?...turn ourselves in?" they demand to know on "Halfway There."
Railing against a government bent on revenge and friends blinded to reality, the band cries out for a
revolution with "Black Masks & Gasoline." Like all Revolutions, this is an album filled with anguish --
spiritual, emotional, and political -- a roar against the tide of history washing over us, echoed by the
wrenching pain of love lost. The music is as impassioned as the lyrics, rubbing emotions raw and minds numb.
QUALITY
* 320kbps MP3
TRACKERS
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