Rise up and RISE AGAINST!

No one really listens to alot of music that I do, and at the moment I really don't care about it. I am different in my music tastes and I like it. Thank you Deadmau5 for filling my ears at this very moment.

What I really want to talk about is one of my favorite punk rock/ hardcore punk/ melodic punk band is Rise Against. No one really knows that this band is fighting against the cruelty of this world. Fighting for what is right and not wrong. You never realize that there is a meaning to alot of what Rise Against is really about. There are alot about this band that I like. I bet you never knew this band were all vegetarians, and how they support Peta. That MEAT IS MURDER! Well according to the band.

Rise Against started there band in the city of Chicago Illinois, in the year of 1999. I was only 7 years old when this band was created. Though later in my life, I fell in love with this band. The Band consists of four members. Tim McIllrath is the lead vocals and rhythm guitar. Joe Principe is the bass guitarist, and back up vocals. Brandon Barnes is the drummer and percussion. Zach Blair is the lead guitarist, and back-up vocals as well. There were more members in the band, but after the years of being together, the band settled with these fortunate four.

The band has released a total of four Albums, Independent Years (1999-2003), Siren Song of the Counter Culture (2004- 2005), The Suffering and the Witness (2006-2007) and there newest one Appeal to Reason which was released October 7 of 2008. Three albums were certified platinum in Canada, and Gold in the US.

I love rise against because they are active supporters to Peta , an animal rights organization. RA was voted Best Animal-Friendly Band in 2009. There single video, Ready To Fall (hhtp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN2FrUUq-zI), contains footage of factory farming, rodeos and sport hunting, as well as defrostation, melting ice-caps, and forest fires. The group called the video the most important video that they have ever made. I recommend people watch the video because the line at the end of the song that Tim says, makes alot of freaking sense! Though no one ever thinks of the planet. "Every action has a reaction, we got one planet, one chance."

Another thing which makes this band so great are there songs, and the meanings they have in there lyrics, though it's the rhythm and the upbeat tunes that don't make you think about what they really mean. You need to sit down and wonder what the songs means. Like theses are some lines from some of my favorite songs.

• "I brought down the sky for you and all you did was shrug, you gave my emptiness a name! You ran away!" Audience of One


• "Am I loud and clear or am breaking up, am I still your charm or am I bad luck, are we getting closer or are we just getting more lost" - Swing Life Away


• "One last thing I beg you please, just before you go, I've watched you fly on paper wings, half way round the world until they burned up in the atmosphere and sent you spiraling down, landing somewhere far from here with no one else around" - Paper Wings


• "If there's no war outside, then why are we losing!! I don't ask for much, but truth be told I'll settle for a life less frightening, a life less frightening" Life Less Frightening.


• " Hold on slow down again from the top now and tell me everything, I know I've been gone for what seems like forever and now here I am waiting" Ready To Fall


• "When faith alone is not enough to keep our heads barely apart, we look for reason and come up empty handed, when little kids are fighting wars, we sit back and keeping score we're teaching murder not understanding" Bricks


• "Chest thrown and tables topples, hands armed with broken bottles, we stand with no chance to win but, we're not running , we're not running!" Behind Closed Doors


• "In fields where nothing grew but weeds i found a flower at my feet, bending there in my direction, I put my hand around it's stem pulled into the roots gave in, finding there what I've been missing!" The Good Left Undone.

So I end this with I really don't know what to say because I think I said everything that I wanted to. Rise Against is my favorite band. I love there music, I love there image, and I love that they are trying to make the world a better place to live. Cause who wants to be in a world where everyone doesn't really understand whats going on. Come on people One Planet, One Chance. Lets make things right!