Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

"the Trump administration had a stranger-than-fiction feel to the extent that I can't think of any musical artist at all, satire or protest, who pulled an iconic work out of it off the top of my head."



it's because all of the bands who spent years and years dropping albums that shit on bush (and american imperialism in general) made beaucoup bucks and became significantly less passionate by the time trump got into office



"Sum 41, surprisingly, used Trump to make a good album (Order in Decline), although there were lots of musical factors that also contributed to that album being pretty good"



dropping three consecutive bad records will lower the standards of quality for any band

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Monarch is so good. I like all their albums but find nothing past Endgame to have any lasting appeal, but I'm loving this a lot. It's nice to hear they bring back a lot of the punk that's been missing, and while Tim can't scream like he used to, that minimal use on Sooner or Later is so well done.

Album Rating: 2.5

TBM shits all over this, idk why I'm seeing "best since ATR" so often.

Eco-Terrorist will be the last good heavy Rise Against song, Bridges is Survive part 2, People Live Here might be their objective best ballad, and then we have songs like Zero Visibility and the title track that actually sounded like this band was trying to do something different.

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Rise Against is such a weird band for me. I really do love their sound but I just don't need more than The Sufferer And The Witness. Everything beyond that album is fine... it all just feels like a lesser version of something on that album for me though. Appeal To Reason was pretty good too but everything after that was hit or miss and I just end up coming back to Sufferer instead whenever I want my Rise Against fix.

Album Rating: 3.5

People who call this a return to form and the best release since ATR haven’t relistened to ATR in years, because it’s one of their weakest releases, and haven’t relistened to Endgame or TBM.



They’ve kinda always been consistently good except for wolves which was chalk full of filler.



Monarch and The Numbers kick fucking ass.

Album Rating: 2.5

satire of Trump, although highly deserved, is just so stale nowadays that it just feels redundant + the fact that this is probably dollar store pop punk does not convince me that this will be good

I will maybe check this out for the 1-2 solid tunes they always have, but yeah Wolves just completely destroyed any lingering faint hope I had for this band

Album Rating: 2.5

TBM and Endgame might be better than ATR but i can't say that with certainty cuz Savior, Whereabouts Unknown, and The Dirt Whispered are all 5/5 Rise Against

Nice placeholder artwork

I don't see how Endgame can be better than ATR tbh
BMT is better though, that's just a fact

Album Rating: 2.5

i'm like the only one here that likes Endgame lol

it's got too many tracks but most of em fuck. Architects, Midnight Hands, Lanterns, and Endgame are all somewhere in my top 20 Rise Against. honestly, just cut Wait For Me and Satellite and i have little to no gripes with that album

"People who call this a return to form and the best release since ATR haven’t relistened to ATR in years, because it’s one of their weakest releases, and haven’t relistened to Endgame or TBM."

utterly bemusing opinion, atr clowns over both of those albums easily. it's incredibly consistent even if it issn't their peak whereas the next two were increasingly spotty with a few great tracks and a fair amount of duds and non-starters

Album Rating: 2.5

Agreed with sint

Album Rating: 3.0

I really thought that The Black Market shown an revolution of the sound of Rise Against, and I liked it a lot even though I like Appeal to Reason and Endgame as well. Then they decided to go full ctrl + z with Wolves, and while I think this is a lot better than Wolves I really wish they continued down the path of TBM instead.

Same. TBM was embracing the style of songs like This Is Letting Go and that the path they should go imo

Album Rating: 2.0

"utterly bemusing opinion, atr clowns over both of those albums easily. it's incredibly consistent even if it issn't their peak whereas the next two were increasingly spotty with a few great tracks and a fair amount of duds and non-starters"



100% this, Endgame had two of the band's best tracks in Architects and Survivor Guilt and a whole lot of filler otherwise, and I literally can't remember a single song off of Black Market or Wolves

Album Rating: 3.0

Imagine making the same album every 2-3 years since 20 years

The best song on Endgame has to be This Is Letting Go tbh. But people have different opinions on the favorites there and that probably means the album isn't so bad after all.
The Black Market is still better than Endgame, Wolves or this. And imo it's better than ATR as well

Album Rating: 3.0

ATR = Sufferer > everything else

And best ballad is Hero of War obviously, cheesiness and all