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Rise Against Challenged Themselves On New Album

07/16/2014
. (Radio.com) Rise Against released their seventh studio album The Black Market yesterday (July 15) and frontman Tim McIlrath spoke with Kevin & Bean on KROQ Los Angeles (a Radio.com station) to talk about the new release.

"I felt like we demanded more out of ourselves on this record," confessed McIlrath. "It wasn't just like 'Let's do another record.' It was more like 'Let's create something. Let's go into this and prove that we still have what it takes to challenge ourselves, challenge our listeners. Let's take our fans and our community down this road with us. Let's build something, but do it in a way that's not just rehashing anything old.'"

When Kevin and Bean asked how it felt to be in seven albums in to their career, McIlrath paused and reflected. "I don't know what that was, I don't know if that was sort of like mortality, like a midlife band kind of thing, but it was something about going into this record� it was the first time I had really counted our records. I think that before this record it took a journalist to tell me what record we were on. I wasn't keeping track of them" more on this story

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