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''Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace'' is the eighth studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring, released on June 17, 2008 in the United States and a week earlier in Japan.〔, Offspring.com, 04-09-2008〕 It was their first album of new material in nearly five years, following 2003's ''Splinter'', and their first to be produced by Bob Rock. It was also their first album since 1992's ''Ignition'' not to feature an intro track or a track lasting less than two minutes. The span of nearly five years between ''Splinter'' and ''Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace'' was the longest gap between studio albums in The Offspring's career. The band had been working on new material since the fall of 2004,〔(Offspring Bring The Hits ), Ultimate-Guitar.com, September 24, 2004〕 but showed no further signs of progress until November 2006, when they announced on their official website that they had begun recording with producer Bob Rock.〔, Offspring.com, 11-16-2006〕 The album was supposed to be released in 2007, but kept getting pushed back. The writing and recording process, spanning four years and three recording studios, was finally finished in April 2008. It produced four singles: "Hammerhead", "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid", "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?" and "Half-Truism". Although a video was made for "Stuff Is Messed Up", it was never officially released as a single, but saw regular radio play on popular stations such as Southern California's KROQ. "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" was certified RIAA Gold for 500,000 sales, while the album has sold over 330,000 copies to date 2012. Although drummer Atom Willard (who left in July 2007) was still a member of the band during the recording, session musician Josh Freese actually handled the drum tracks, like he did on ''Splinter''. Due to contract issues with Geffen Records, Willard was not permitted to do recording on the album and later decided to leave the band and continue his duties in Angels & Airwaves full-time while former Face to Face drummer Pete Parada joined the band just in time for the tour.〔, Offspring.com, 07-27-2007〕 ==Writing and recording== Work for ''Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace'' dates back to September 2004, when frontman Dexter Holland said that he wanted to put out the next Offspring album in 2005 and new songs felt "pretty good".〔 From June to August 2005, the band played the Vans Warped Tour for the first time, and followed that with a tour of Europe and Japan. To coincide with that tour, Sony Music released the first Offspring compilation album, ''Greatest Hits'', which includes their hits from 1994 to 2005. After the ''Greatest Hits'' tour ended in the fall of 2005, the band took a break from writing, recording and touring. On February 7, 2006, Holland said in his journal that the band entered a demo studio to work on guitar tracks,〔, Offspring.com, 02-07-2006〕 and a week later, Holland said in his journal that he went out of town to "meet with a guy who might produce" the album.〔, Offspring.com, 02-15-2006〕 On June 13, 2006, Holland stated that the band (minus Willard) had been meeting every week and would begin recording shortly.〔, (The Offspring's Official Website ), June 13, 2006〕 On August 18, he posted another update on the band's journal, saying that they had demoed five songs and were looking to go into the studio soon. He described the new songs as "lots of guitar, energy, lots of energy, and good songs." In September 2006, it was announced that the album would be produced by Bob Rock, who was working with Holland and "helping him sort out songs."〔(Bob Rock devoting energies to other artists following split from Metallica ), (Monstersandcritics.com ), September 20, 2006〕 On November 16, 2006, The Offspring announced on their website that they had begun recording the album with Rock, with an intended release date of spring 2007.〔 Recording took place in Hawaii and California with Rock. By May 2007 the music for thirteen songs had been recorded, with a further 10 tracks demoed. At this time Holland announced that all of the songs were completely new with no re-recordings of older songs, jokingly remarking "that would be cheating, wouldn't it?" (in response to rumors that the unreleased song "Pass Me By" and the re-recording of their 1992 song "Dirty Magic" would appear on the album) and commenting that the new tracks "sound like a friggin' freight train."〔, Offspring.com, 06-12-2007〕 In July 2007, Dexter also confirmed that the band had finished "two more songs" and the album was being recorded in Orange County, California.〔, Offspring.com, 07-18-2007〕 On the Christmas journal entry, he claimed that he had two more lyrics to write, "a couple more" to sing and "various tweaks" to do before mixing could begin. The band was at that time taking a break to spend Christmas with their families. In January 2008, the band comically responded to upset fans who wanted news by having a "breaking news" story regarding the band buying plane tickets for their next show. In his journal, Dexter explained that when there were no updates, it's usually because there's nothing to talk about- hence the faux "news." The next month, Dexter told (Bombshellzine.com ) that The Offspring were "just in the studio getting some tracks down for the new record" and claims "it's a lot louder than the last couple". He also said the band wasn't "going to be making another ''Smash'', or another ''Ixnay''" but thought they were still "relevant to punk when they were created, and this one will be no different".〔(The Offspring's Dexter Holland talks new record, upcoming tour and new drummer ), Punknews.org, February 21, 2008〕 Dexter announced on April 9, 2008 that the new album was finally finished and announced the name and release date, and that "Hammerhead" would be the first single.〔 The album's title is derived from two tracks. "Rise and Fall" is the last track on the album and the song "Fix You" features the line "Rage and Grace". 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「Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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