For one thing, Blair was given an opportunity to do guitar solos in a few of the songs, including “Methadone” and “Zero Visibility.” In January, members reconvened to start work on “The Black Market” with longtime producer Bill Stevenson (of the bands the Descendents and All), and they made a few subtle changes.
It was time to jump off the rock ’n’ roll train and spend some time living a family life. Blair’s three band mates had become fathers, and Blair himself had married. It never stopped.”īut by the time of “Endgame,” the lives of the band members had evolved. I might as well have just put my stuff in storage. And when I got into the band, it was like jumping onto a moving train.
They were in a van a lot longer than most bands are in a van. “Before I was in the band, I just admired the hell out of them because they never stopped, “ Blair said. 2008’s “Appeal to Reason,” 2011’s “Endgame” and now “The Black Market” all enjoyed Top 5 debuts on Billboard’s album chart. That means it got bigger on the back of a band that was staying true to itself and always putting out music that we all four liked, not music that people were telling us we needed to be playing and not following some trend, some fashion trend or some trend in modern music.”īlair joined after the release of the band’s s fourth effort, “The Sufferer & the Witness,” and has watched the group’s audience grow. And I realized what I was getting myself into when I did that. “I dedicated myself to punk rock music, to aggressive, fast, heavy music. “I never expected to be in a band this big,” Blair said in a late-August phone interview. Still, guitarist Zach Blair doesn’t sound too concerned about chasing after arena-headlining success. 3 on Billboard’s album chart when it was released in July.
Meanwhile, “The Black Market” debuted at No. Rise Against’s latest album, “The Black Market,” has arrived at a time when some observers think the group is just a radio hit away from being the next punk band to break through to the mainstream.Īlready one of the most successful punk groups on the scene, Rise Against plays arenas in some markets and fills theaters and large clubs in others.
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