Musical Discovery - Rise Against

Continuing my series on enlightening you readers to the various musical artists in the world is this segment on Rise Against.  Now I imagine that many of you might know Rise Against as they're a somewhat well known US rock band.  But for those out of the country or unaware, this might be interesting to you.  I promise I'll get to weird and obscure bands and singers in the following posts in the series.  You'll just have to bear with me as I get through some of the more well known bands.  I will not cover the likes of say Evanescence or Linkin Park or Sara Bareilles as well...to be fair I think most people know them by now, not much to discover.

Continuing on before my little rant explodes into some random tangent, Rise Against is originally from the Chicago area and formed in 1999, although that's just information I took from Wikipedia.  As you might imagine I wouldn't talk about them if I didn't find them interesting.  As of this post, they've released 4 major albums which are, in order of release: Siren Song of the Counter Culture, The Sufferer & the Witness, Appeal to Reason, and Endgame.  (They released two indie albums previously)  All four albums are quite similar in tonal quality with a focus on relatively common punk rock sound.  There are a couple of exceptions obviously as you'll find in 'Swing Life Away' which is from Siren Song for the Counter Culture.