Rise Against - The Black Market (2014)

The Black Market is the seventh studio album by American melodic hardcore band Rise Against, released on July 15, 2014. With the same line-up as their previous two albums, guitarist Zach Blair has become Rise Against's first guitarist to appear on three studio albums. It is the last Rise Against album to be released through Interscope Records. The Black Market debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200, becoming the band's third consecutive top five album.

The Black Market received mostly positive reviews. It attained a score of 76 out of 100 on Metacritic's average of seven professional reviews. Matt Sloan of CultNoise Magazine scored the album 8.5/10, saying that 'some might consider the social commentary present in The Black Market to be, on the surface, too general and unfocused to be saying anything that hasn’t been said before. However, this is to do the band a disservice; The Black Market is an album about the weariness that comes from living in this world, in having to fight to survive.' MusicReviewRadar wrote that The Black Market "may not be as intense and enraged as their antecessors but, once you listen to it, you will find the political fight Rise Against always print on their albums". The album was included at number 33 on Rock Sound's "Top 50 Albums of the Year" list. The album was included at number 6 on Kerrang!'s "The Top 50 Rock Albums Of 2014" list.

Track List:
01. The Great Die-Off (3:40)
02. I Don't Want To Be Here Anymore (4:00)
03. Tragedy + Time (4:17)
04. The Black Market (4:16)
05. The Eco-Terrorist In Me (2:45)
06. Sudden Life (4:08)
07. A Beautiful Indifference (3:25)
08. Methadone (3:49)
09. Zero Visibility (4:38)
10. Awake Too Long (3:12)
11. People Live Here (4:09)
12. Bridges (4:07)