Review: Rise Against - Rise Against

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ising from the ashes of 88 Fingers Louie, Chicago's Rise Against started off as nothing more than a run-of-the-mill hardcore band before releasing Revolutions Per Minute, an overtly political masterwork full of jagged protest songs that established the band as a hardcore juggernaut and caused the major labels to come calling. Following two flaccid albums, Appeal to Reason, though not exactly a return to form, is the closest the band has come to their humble hardcore beginnings since Revolutions.

Opening track "Collapse (Post-Amerika)," with all its buzzsaw guitars and frontman Tim McIlrath's growl-singing, plays like old Bad Religion and serves as...