took a year long hiatus

The extensive touring schedule surrounding Endgame took a toll on the band members, and in 2013 they decided to take a year long hiatus. According to Blair: “You’re constantly gone. You don’t feel like you live anywhere”. He also discussed how the other three band members lives had evolved, and were away from their families for months on end. “It’s an interesting thing to kind of realize that and kind of get out of the bubble, get out of the bus, and go ‘Oh, geez, we actually have lives outside of what we do.’” In January 2014, the band members reconvened at the Blasting Room to record Rise Against’s seventh album The Black Market . The band members used new recording techniques, such as greater usage of analog signals on a Kemper amplifier , and an Evertune bridge to keep the guitars in tune. As McIlrath put it: “I want the songs to feel a certain way. I want the songs to hit the guy and the girl who don’t really care about guitar tones.”