Coping with the pressure that followed their 2006 The Sufferer and the Witness chart breakthough appears to have weighed heavy on Rise Against. Though the issue gets mentioned numerous times during Appeal To Reason, they better get used to it cause the new release is going to do big business. Big crunching songs with hooks all over the place, and choruses that will get the fists punching into the air. It’s the perfect mix of punk attitude and mainstream polish. It’s not they are pop in sound, they are just well crafted songs.
Take the noise away and they would still stand tall.
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