Ready to Fall is an incredibly catchy single with a powerful video accompaniment. Strings add more vibrancy and life to Roadside, and all in all make the most beautiful song ever from the band. Tim McIlrath shows an excellent evolution in his vocals, making a perfect baritone-tenor voice that accompanies the female back-up vocals perfectly.

The explorations include a much softer Roadside, which pulls in clean guitar lines and female back up vocals. The Sufferer and the Witness makes further explorations, the band certainly remembers and uses their excellently refined punk sound. Siren Songs began to explore more melodic songs, but many songs like State of the Union stayed in their usual style. However, on Revolutions Per Minute and Siren Songs, the band normally went through an extremely similar sound. The guitar interplay creates excellent melodic structure even in the normally power chord infested punk rock layout. A driving rhythm section, with typical punk rock drums and that bright picked bass tone, allows for the rest of the band to build tremendous energy off of them. Their music accompanies their message perfectly, a furious brand of punk rock. They stand among the many bands taking a political viewpoint as one of the honest and true bands. Rise Against have certainly made a name for themselves. The Sufferer and the Witness is an intense, raging album of stories, messages, and ideas. With swift political ideas, the band gleams with an angry intensity that still hasn’t diminished from Revolutions per Minute. Rise Against, in that manner, spread their own message quick and fast. The man who coined the term Windy City, a New York journalist, made the term due to the quick way ideas spread throughout Chicago, not for the excessive wind in the city. However, the real connection between Chicago and Rise Against is in the nickname The Windy City. It hosted the World Columbian Exposition, among the world’s most influential fairs in history. Chicago grew up in the industrial revolution, although having to restart in the Great Fire of 1871. It’s not surprising that Rise Against hail from Chicago.

The sufferer and the witness tracklist