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''Endgame'' is the sixth studio album by American rock band Rise Against, released on March 15, 2011 through DGC Records and Interscope Records. Rise Against began work on the album in September 2010, after completing touring in support of its previous album, ''Appeal to Reason'', in mid-2010. The first single from the album, "Help Is on the Way" debuted on KROQ and KKDO on January 17, 2011, and was released on the band's MySpace and digital media outlets on January 25, 2011. The album entered the ''Billboard 200'' at number two, the band's highest position to date. The album has been certified platinum by the CRIA, gold by the BVMI and gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association. ==Background and recording== Following the commercial success of the band's fifth studio album, ''Appeal to Reason'', and the subsequent touring to support the album, Rise Against entered The Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colorado (the same studio where all their albums, except ''The Unraveling'' and ''Siren Song of the Counter Culture'', were recorded) in September 2010 to begin recording their next album. Rise Against finished recording the album in January 2011, after they recorded some last minute guest vocals for the album. The album deals with "the end of humankind as we know it," with lyrics addressing world events and politics, including Hurricane Katrina, recent LGBT teen suicides, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. According to Tim McIlrath, "''Endgame'' was a way to talk about the world in a different way than we have before. It is talking about the world from the perspective that it’s too late to recycle. It’s too late to drive a hybrid. It’s too late to decide whether you believe in global warming or not because global warming has devoured the planet." Although the lyrics discuss grim topics, they actually take on a positive view and were written from the perspective of "What if the place on the other () of this transition is () place we'd all rather be living in?" Before the album's release, ''Spin Magazine'' labeled ''Endgame'' as a concept album and suggested that it may have been largely influenced by the Dixie Chicks, but on January 7, 2011, McIlrath tweeted a clarifying message stating that "the record is not a concept record and, fret not, has absolutely nothing to do with the Dixie Chicks."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 date = January 7, 2011 )〕 ''Endgame'' is notable for being the first album to establish Rise Against's stance against homophobia and bullying with the third song on the album, "Make It Stop (September's Children)", which references the September suicides of teenagers in the LGBT community, specifically mentioning Tyler Clementi, Billy Lucas, Harrison Chase Brown, Cody J. Barker, and Seth Walsh. The album's seventh track, "Survivor Guilt", features dialogue from the film ''Catch-22'', which was also in .baxter.'s song "Burden". The album's liner notes recommends the documentaries ''Collapse'', ''Capitalism: A Love Story'', ''Countdown to Zero'', and ''The Cove'', as well as two books, ''Eating Animals'' by Jonathan Safran Foer and ''The Shock Doctrine'' by Naomi Klein. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Endgame (Rise Against album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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