The Black Market (Rise Against album)

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Length 46:18 Release date 15 July 2014		Artist Rise Against

Released July 15, 2014 (2014-07-15) Studio The Blasting Room, Fort Collins, Colorado Producer Bill Stevenson & Jason Livermore Label Insomniac/Interscope Records Genres Punk rock, Melodic hardcore, Alternative rock Places recorded The Blasting Room, Fort Collins, Colorado Similar Rise Against albums, Punk rock albums

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.

The Black Market debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200, earning the band their second career number three.

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Release

On April 14, 2014, the band posted a short video on their Facebook page teasing a new album with the message "Coming Soon." On May 5, 2014, the band posted another short video indicating that a new album would be released in the summer of 2014. On May 27, 2014, the band released a short video with a teaser of a song from the new album, and clarified the summer release date to be July 2014. On June 4, 2014, a new teaser was released on Facebook revealing the album title The Black Market and release date of July 15, 2014.

The album's first single, "I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore", was released to radio on June 10, 2014. On June 13, 2014, the band released the artwork for the upcoming album. This was released on all the major social networking sites. On July 8, 2014, the band released the entire album for pre-release streaming via iTunes. "Tragedy + Time" impacted radio on October 21, 2014.

Critical reception

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.

Commercial performance

The Black Market is Rise Against's third highest charting album on the US Billboard 200, debuting at no. 3 and selling 53,000 copies in its first week.

In Canada, the album debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 14,000 copies in its first week.

The album became Rise Against's highest position in the UK thus far after it debuted at number 13. Their previous peak was number 27 with 2011's Endgame.