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Track List
01) The Great Die-Off
02) I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore
03) Tragedy + Time
04) The Black Market
05) The Eco-Terrorist in Me
06) Sudden Life
07) A Beautiful Indifference
08) Methadone
09) Zero Visibility
10) Awake Too Long
11) People Live Here
12) Bridges
13) Escape Artists
01) The Great Die-Off
02) I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore
03) Tragedy + Time
04) The Black Market
05) The Eco-Terrorist in Me
06) Sudden Life
07) A Beautiful Indifference
08) Methadone
09) Zero Visibility
10) Awake Too Long
11) People Live Here
12) Bridges
13) Escape Artists
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3:59
4:17
4:15
2:45
4:08
3:24
3:48
4:38
3:11
4:08
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The Black Market is the seventh studio album by American melodic hardcore band Rise Against, released on July 15, 2014. It is the last Rise Against album to be released through Interscope Records.
The Black Market debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200, becoming the band's third consecutive top five album.
Release
On April 14, 2014, the band posted a short video on their Facebook page teasing a new album with the message "Coming Soon." On May 5, 2014, the band posted another short video indicating that a new album would be released in the summer of 2014. On May 27, 2014, the band released a short video with a teaser of a song from the new album, and clarified the summer release date to be July 2014. On June 4, 2014, a new teaser was released on Facebook revealing the album title The Black Market and release date of July 15, 2014.
The album's first single, "I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore", was released to radio on June 10, 2014. On June 13, 2014, the band released the artwork for the upcoming album. This was released on all the major social networking sites. On July 8, 2014, the band released the entire album for pre-release streaming via iTunes. "Tragedy + Time" impacted radio on October 21, 2014.
Critical reception
The Black Market received mostly positive reviews. It attained a score of 76 out of 100 on Metacritic's average of seven professional reviews. Matt Sloan of CultNoise Magazine scored the album 8.5/10, saying that 'some might consider the social commentary present in The Black Market to be, on the surface, too general and unfocused to be saying anything that hasn’t been said before. However, this is to do the band a disservice; The Black Market is an album about the weariness that comes from living in this world, in having to fight to survive.' MusicReviewRadar wrote that The Black Market "may not be as intense and enraged as their antecessors but, once you listen to it, you will find the political fight Rise Against always print on their albums". The album was included at number 33 on Rock Sound's "Top 50 Albums of the Year" list. The album was included at number 6 on Kerrang!'s "The Top 50 Rock Albums Of 2014" list.
Commercial performance
The Black Market is Rise Against's third highest charting album on the US Billboard 200, debuting at no. 3 and selling 53,000 copies in its first week.
In Canada, the album debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 14,000 copies in its first week.
The album became Rise Against's highest position in the UK thus far after it debuted at number 13. Their previous peak was number 27 with 2011's Endgame.
User Album Review
The Rise Against of 2014 are very different band to the one that formed in 1999—they've cycled through a half-dozen guitarists, their music has noticeably become more melodic since those early days and they’ve become a Billboard charting band (2011’s Endgame hit No. 2 on that magazine's top 200) who have sold millions of records worldwide. Yet one listen to this seventh full-length and it’s clear that, despite those changes and successes, the heart, soul and intentions of the Chicago activist punks haven’t diminished in the slightest.
Full of both fury and melody, opener “The Great Die-Off” sets the turbulent tone of this record, which sees frontman Tim McIlrath battle some of his most personal demons to date. But he fights them well—the impassioned, insistent surge of “I Don’t Want To Be Here Anymore” is wrought with both existential and geographical angst, and “Tragedy + Time” pits emotional loneliness against one of the band’s most catchy, anthemic choruses. “Zero Visibility” is a rollicking, rowdy burst of defiant energy that rallies against the insecurities and uncertainties of its lyrics, while “The Eco-Terrorist In Me” soars with vicious vigor and aggression. Elsewhere, pentultimate song “People Live Here” is a slow, sad acoustic lament (“Do you cry my name in the dark like I cry yours?” asks McIlrath) before the urgent chug of “Bridges” finishes the album.
As with most Rise Against songs, the lyrics of these are open to interpretation. They certainly have a specific intention—McIlrath told AP that he was questioning why he does this when writing the record, and that inspired a lot of his words—but at the same time, they can be applied to a multitude of different ideas, emotions and situations. Whatever meaning you take from them, however, one thing remains solid—the sheer heart with which they were forged and the very visceral emotion they contain.
SOURCE: https://www.altpress.com/reviews/entry/rise_against_the_black_market
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The Black Market is the seventh studio album by American melodic hardcore band Rise Against, released on July 15, 2014. It is the last Rise Against album to be released through Interscope Records.
The Black Market debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200, becoming the band's third consecutive top five album.
Release
On April 14, 2014, the band posted a short video on their Facebook page teasing a new album with the message "Coming Soon." On May 5, 2014, the band posted another short video indicating that a new album would be released in the summer of 2014. On May 27, 2014, the band released a short video with a teaser of a song from the new album, and clarified the summer release date to be July 2014. On June 4, 2014, a new teaser was released on Facebook revealing the album title The Black Market and release date of July 15, 2014.
The album's first single, "I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore", was released to radio on June 10, 2014. On June 13, 2014, the band released the artwork for the upcoming album. This was released on all the major social networking sites. On July 8, 2014, the band released the entire album for pre-release streaming via iTunes. "Tragedy + Time" impacted radio on October 21, 2014.
Critical reception
The Black Market received mostly positive reviews. It attained a score of 76 out of 100 on Metacritic's average of seven professional reviews. Matt Sloan of CultNoise Magazine scored the album 8.5/10, saying that 'some might consider the social commentary present in The Black Market to be, on the surface, too general and unfocused to be saying anything that hasn’t been said before. However, this is to do the band a disservice; The Black Market is an album about the weariness that comes from living in this world, in having to fight to survive.' MusicReviewRadar wrote that The Black Market "may not be as intense and enraged as their antecessors but, once you listen to it, you will find the political fight Rise Against always print on their albums". The album was included at number 33 on Rock Sound's "Top 50 Albums of the Year" list. The album was included at number 6 on Kerrang!'s "The Top 50 Rock Albums Of 2014" list.
Commercial performance
The Black Market is Rise Against's third highest charting album on the US Billboard 200, debuting at no. 3 and selling 53,000 copies in its first week.
In Canada, the album debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 14,000 copies in its first week.
The album became Rise Against's highest position in the UK thus far after it debuted at number 13. Their previous peak was number 27 with 2011's Endgame.
User Album Review
The Rise Against of 2014 are very different band to the one that formed in 1999—they've cycled through a half-dozen guitarists, their music has noticeably become more melodic since those early days and they’ve become a Billboard charting band (2011’s Endgame hit No. 2 on that magazine's top 200) who have sold millions of records worldwide. Yet one listen to this seventh full-length and it’s clear that, despite those changes and successes, the heart, soul and intentions of the Chicago activist punks haven’t diminished in the slightest.
Full of both fury and melody, opener “The Great Die-Off” sets the turbulent tone of this record, which sees frontman Tim McIlrath battle some of his most personal demons to date. But he fights them well—the impassioned, insistent surge of “I Don’t Want To Be Here Anymore” is wrought with both existential and geographical angst, and “Tragedy + Time” pits emotional loneliness against one of the band’s most catchy, anthemic choruses. “Zero Visibility” is a rollicking, rowdy burst of defiant energy that rallies against the insecurities and uncertainties of its lyrics, while “The Eco-Terrorist In Me” soars with vicious vigor and aggression. Elsewhere, pentultimate song “People Live Here” is a slow, sad acoustic lament (“Do you cry my name in the dark like I cry yours?” asks McIlrath) before the urgent chug of “Bridges” finishes the album.
As with most Rise Against songs, the lyrics of these are open to interpretation. They certainly have a specific intention—McIlrath told AP that he was questioning why he does this when writing the record, and that inspired a lot of his words—but at the same time, they can be applied to a multitude of different ideas, emotions and situations. Whatever meaning you take from them, however, one thing remains solid—the sheer heart with which they were forged and the very visceral emotion they contain.
SOURCE: https://www.altpress.com/reviews/entry/rise_against_the_black_market
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