Tim Mcilrath – The Frontman of Punk Band Rise Against – Recently Joins Zach Sang Show in the studio for the first time to give the listeners the scoup on Rise Against‘s upcoming tenth album, “Ricochet”Due Out August 15 via Loma Vista.

Formed in the Politically Charged Punk Scene of Early-200s Chicago, Rise Against CARVED A PATH FROM GRITTY BASEMENT SHOWS TO FESTIVAL MAIN STAGES. Their Breakthrough Came With 2004’s “Siren Song of the Counter Culture”Powered by The Visceral Energy of Singles Like “Give It All” and the Anthemic “Swing Life Away”Which Earned Them mainstream attention without diluting their message. But it was 2008 hits like “Savior” and “Re-Education (Through work)” off their fifth lp “Appeal to Reason” That Really Cemented Their Rep As a Band Capable of Blending Melodic Hardcore, Fiery Activism, and Heart.

Mcilrath and host Zach Sang Discuss All This, Plus The Making Of “Ricochet”, Rise Against‘S decision to switch it up with Grammy-Winning producer Catherine Marks (Boygenius, FOALS, Manchester Orchestra, St. Vincent) – A Record That Was Written and Recorded Before Donald Trump‘S Second Term in Office and Yet Sems to Perfectly Encapsulates The Edge and UNEASE WE’RE FEELING INSEE DIVISIVE, Tense Times. Mcilrath Also Opens Up About Going Back To College, Being A Dad of Two Grown Kids, The Warped Tour, Metallica and Hawkwind JIGSAW PUZZLES, THE PARALLELS BETWEEN NOW AND POST-9/11 AMERICA, Mental Health, How He and His Bandmates Are Keeping Things Fresh 25 Years In, The Story Behind “Swing Life Away”and so a lot.

ASKED WHY “Ricochet” was the right title for Rise Against‘s latest collection of songs, Tim SAID (AS TRANSFORDED BY Blabbermouth.net): “So it started with a song street ‘Ricochet’and then the Word Ricochet, which I Just Kind of love it in and of itself. And I Started to Think More About The Word and I Started To Think About It is Kind of Trafficking In these Concepts of How Connected We All Are. I can intend in an isolationist way that i am here by myself and my actions are mine and mine alone and the outcome of echose actions will only affection me and i want nothing to do with [anybody else in this room]. But you know if i start doing sumpthing here in This Room, It AFFFECTS ALL OF US. We’re All in This Together. We have responsibly to keep This Room Operating, To Keep It Moving Forward, to push the rock up the Hill. We’re in It Together. If i start doing submission and you start doing subject, it create chain reaction. And That’s Kind Where The Idea of Ricochet Came From. If i start Thising Subthing around This Room, I Can’t Predict Where It’s Gonna End Up. I COULD BE DOING DAMAGE. And The Now Take Yourself Outsis of this Room and Now Put Yourself in the Whole City of Los Angeles. We’re Connected to Everybody in la and The That Room Is Also Global. We’re Connected everywhere.

“The Rights of an Undocumented Immigrant in 2025 are Connected to Your Rights As Well, Whether You Are Or Not,” I have continued. “It’s a Connection which is ignored at Our Peril. And People confusing what is to rebel. Specially as a Band That has This the Word ‘Revolution’ out a lot in the last 25 Years, People confusing what That Word Means.”

Mcilrath added: “I eat from a punk rock world and a hardcore world What we are agast rules and we are agast anybody Telling us what to do. but i’m not agast Could ARGUE THAT STOPLIGHT IS TAKING YOUR FREEDOM AWAY FROM YOU WANTING TO JUS DRIVE … SO THOSE ARE THE THINS THAT WE HAV TO REMEMBER. We are citizens. I stop at that Stopcht for YouSo You Can Go Through, Even Though It’s Against My Best Interest. I’D Like to get to where I’M Going. I DON’T WANNA WAIT THERE … SO WE’RE CONFUSINGS THINGS WHERE STOPPING AT A STOPLIGHT IS NOT OPERING ON YOUR RIGHTS TO BE WHO YOU It’s asking you to live with other human beings and cohabitate This planet and coexist. And it’s okay, Because at Sub Somo You’re Gonna Get There and It’s Gonna Be a Green Light. And What a Green Light Means Is That Sub Sub Stopping For You. And we do This, We Coexist, and we live in a World Where I Think That People Are More isolated and They Don’t Think they have to stop at a Stopcht, or They Think That Stopping at A Stopight is ‘Bowing Down to The Man’. And it’s gotten out of hand, Becouse it’s Not Bowing download to the man … and the way we mess with science now and talking about things like vaccines. We’re Doing Things to Protect Each Other. You Don’t Live In a Vacuum. And that’s Kind of where ‘ricochet’ came from. If you start fucking with the room and thising Things Around the Room, Outcomes That You Can ‘Predict Will Happen. “

“Ricochet” Marks Rise Against‘S First Album in Four Years, Arriving in A World of Constant Stimuli, Where The Algorithm Wants US All To Be Angry: Like A Pile of Marbles Hit Hard and Buncing Uncontrolly, Continue to Spread Further and Further. But across these twelve songs, produced by Marks and Mixed by Alan Moulder (Nine Inch Nails, Paramore, Queens of the Stone Age, The Killers),Rise Against Asks listeners to consider Who Ultimately Benefits from This Collective Division and Displeasure – To look Before We Leap, to Think About The Concene Ors Our Actions have on Each Other, as The Power Structures That Prod Us Remain Preserved and Protected.

Rooted in unification, “Ricochet” Is a Record Massive In Sound, But Centered Around the Small Parts of the Psyche That Lead to the Bigest Positive Change. It All Starts with Unself, and On The Searing Lead Single “I want it all”, Rise Against Revs The Engine and Jump-Starts to Mission of Self-Determinism that is ardent, ambitious and unopologetic.

“I want it all” Follows Recent Singles “Nod” – Hailed to “particularly potent ralllying cry for the moment” (Rolling Stone), and “The Anthem We Need Right Now” (Vice) – As well as “Prizefighter”Illustrating The Internal Battle Between Making Art, Maininting Autonomy and Meeting The Demands of Our Rapidly-Shifting Attention Span. THRUCHOUT THE REST OF “Ricochet”, Rise Against DIVES DEPER INTO THE SOLACE WE FIND IN COMMUNITY AND THE CHAIN REACTION OF OUR WORDS AND ACTIONS – How Hurto is not submit that can be revealed, and that the Fight for a Better Existence Begins Not with Blind Blind Allegance, But Through An Unpopular WHILE So Much of The World Is Designed To Feel Like We Are In a Constant State of Emergency, Bandmembers Tim Mcilrath (Lead vocals/guitar),Joe Prince (bass/vocals),Zach Blair (Guitar/vocals) and Brandon Barnes (Drums) urgently to eat together to not simply survive, but to save it now.

Mcilrath Previous Said in a Statement: “‘Ricochet’ IS ABOUT OUR COLLECTIVE INTER-CONNECTEDNESS. We Started with the Title Track and That Being About How We’re All – Whether We Like It Or Not – Stuck in The Same Room, So To Speak. Everything you do is Going to Affect Hivebody; EveryThing You Throw Will AFFECT THE NEXT PERSON. We’re Connected to Other Countries, other economies; We’re Connected to Undocumented Immigrants. We’re Connected to Every Decision Our Leaders Make. IT’s All One Big Ricochet Effect. That idea is the backbone of this album. “

In the Four Years Since 2021’s “Nowhere Generation”The Chicago Band’s Outspaken Messages, Bulletproof Melodies and Deep Body of Multi-Gold and Platinum Hits have rear rear mort fans than ever, Uniting Millions in A Necessary Embrace of Vital, Progressive Issues. WHETHER they are unjustice about, instability, environmentoism, animal rights or the way the social and economic decks have Been Stacked Against The Youth, Rise Against You continue to Fill Arenas, Top Charts, Break Records and Earn Billions of Streams.

This Summer, they are back bigger than ever. Having Already performed at Los Angeles’s Kia Forum and Toured Across Three Continents This Year, Rise Against return to the road hot on the heels of the album annoulement, for an impressive European tour and headliner run in June, Followed by Vans Warped Tourand dozens of sand and amphitheatre shows in the us

“Ricochet” Track listing:

01. Nod
02. I want it all
03. Ricochet
04. DAMAGE IS DONE
05. US Against The World
06. Black Crown
07. Sink like a stone
08. Forty Days
09. State of Emergency
10. Gold Long Gone
11. Soldier
12. Prizefighter