Free Endgames Ringtone by Rise Against
Endgames is a sixth studio album by American punk rock band Rise Against from Chicago Illinois formed in 1999. The band consist of Tim McIlrath (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Zach Blair (lead guitar, backing vocals), Joe Principe (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Brandon Barnes (drums, percussion). Rise Against spent its first five years signed to the independent record label Fat Wreck Chords, on which it released two studio albums, The Unraveling (2001) and Revolutions per Minute (2003). Both the albums met with considerable underground success, and in 2003 the band signed with the major label Geffen. The album deals with “the end of humankind as we know it,” with lyrics that, as usual, address world events and politics—including Hurricane Katrina, recent LGBTQ teen suicides, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. According to McIlrath, although the lyrics discuss grim topics, they actually take on a positive view and were written from the perspective of, “What if the place on the other [side] of this transition is [a] place we’d all rather be living in?” Although Spin Magazine labeled Endgame as a concept album and suggested that it may be largely influenced by the Dixie Chicks, on January 7, 2011, McIlrath tweeted a clarifying message stating that “the record is not a concept record and, fret not, has absolutely nothing to do with the Dixie Chicks.” Endgame is Rise Against’s highest charting album on the US Billboard 200, debuting at no. 2 and selling 85,000 copies in its first week. It’s also the band’s first album to enter the UK top 40 album chart, debuting at no. 27. In Canada, the album debuted at #1 on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 17,000 copies.
