There are times, McIlrath admitted, where the heavy lyrical content will catch him by surprise on stage. At some point in my life, I had kids and I started being the guy that walks his kids to school every day, meets the teachers and sees inside the classrooms. How could that happen? I feel that really exists and if a song goes into a dark, dark place, I always try leave a little trail of bread crumbs to get out. I would happily sacrifice my career though for that sort of utopia.
Their first release was a full length, self released, cassete, Troy's Bucket which was released in Troy's Bucket was met with warm reception from the scene, and. After some local touring, the band split up. Tim was then in the first incarnation of The Honor System. He sang on their demo and on some songs on their debut album Single File.
They released their debut album the same year that Rise Against released theirs on Eulogy records. After touring around the midwest, Arma Angelus broke up in Also that year, Will not Clear man Records released the complete Discography for. Precision and drummer Brandon Barnes. Precison left, and Todd Mohney filled his role. Later that year they released their sophomore album Revolutions Per Minute, which was greeted with warm succes and is considered by many to be their best work.
They toured the U. With the release of the singles Give it All, Swing Life Away, and Life Less Frightening, Rise Against, became more popular with mainstream fans, but still kept their underground sensibility. After more touring including a European tour and spots on the Vans Warped tour , the band went back to the studio and recorded The Sufferer and the Witness, which included two singles Ready to Fall and Prayer of the Refugee.
Tim is also active in a heavier, more hardcore type side-project band called The Killing Tree along with former Rise Against guitarist Todd Mohney, though all members use pseudonyms in concern to the band. We were just trying to get in front of people. My heart goes out to the bands and musicians and artists where this was supposed to be their year to break, and I hope that this window stays open long enough for them. Support for workers in the music industry in the UK has been incredibly poor.
How have you found it in America? The bigger venues are hurting too, but a lot of them have more resources at their disposal, but the independent venues need the help. These buildings are irreplaceable a lot of the time, too; as a band who have rolled around the world playing all these shows, you really come to appreciate those old venues.
In happier news, we recently got the first new Rise Against music in three years, Broken Dreams, Inc. Do you get nervous about releasing new music at this point? I think, had I heard that sentence before we put the song out, then yes, I probably would have been more nervous.
And so I was so excited to see this song getting the attention it deserves, as opposed to if it was, like, track eight on a record. This has been a cool, unique way to get it out there, too.
Your lyrics were written long before the pandemic and any of the craziness of , and yet they have this dystopian feel and cross over into a superhero world really well.
Were they written once you knew about the Dark Nights soundtrack, or was Broken Dreams going to be a song for the new Rise Against album at first? But it just sort of dovetailed really nicely with this story.
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