After 15 years and 6 absolutely fantastic albums, punk rockers Rise Against are back once again with The Black Market, a hard hitting album packed to the brim with raw energy & emotion.

Not content to sit back and say nothing, Rise Against once again deliver 12 stirring tracks with a ferocious intensity; guaranteed to get your blood pumping and brain ticking. There's a point when you realise that this album is like none of its predecessors, sure it has the same high intensity energy, but something is definitely different this time around.

“I underestimated just what a Rise Against song is, what the lyrics are and how they can sometimes take you to a dark place,” explains Tim. “I used to go into songs and walk away virtually unscathed. When I was creating this record I was having a hard time walking away from it – I was wallowing in the sadness and the angst of the songs.”

The superb title track addresses this subject directly. Not only does it question the world, it also examines the burden of the person who feels compelled to ask them. “As a writer I've always felt some responsibility to not just acknowledge the sadness of the human condition but to help people find a way out,” reveals Tim. “That’s where the whole Black Market idea came from – we’re trafficking these emotions, we’re living in them and it can be a dark place, but overall it’s a way for people to get over their hurt.”

This idea soon came to embody the record itself, in turn leading to the most personal record Rise Against has made to this day.

This is an album you absolutely cannot afford to sleep on, swing by and order a copy of The Black Market today for what is undoubtedly one of the hardest hitting punk rock albums of 2014!