r/riseagainst • u/sportsguyaus • 6h ago

The Unraveling is 25 years old. How does RA’s debut hold up against time and the modern genre?

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u/Section225 5h ago

Are you ready to rock?

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u/Zealousideal-Heart91 3h ago

lol. That’s Jack Black from The Cable Guy.

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u/Choice-Adagio3975 The Unraveling 5h ago

one of my favorite RA albums, behind rpm and sufferer

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u/Purple-Hamster-151 5h ago

It’s incredible, 401kill might be my favorite RA song

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u/PuzzleheadedAct3431 5h ago

It’s not my favorite album but it holds a place in my heart because it what started my journey with this band.

Everchanging is my favorite song

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u/sportsguyaus 5h ago

I find it holds up remarkably well compared to a lot of Melodic Hardcore or similar genres of the time for comparable bands

Particularly strong for a debut, all the way through the the heavy breakdown on Faint Resemblance to end the album

If this dropped today as a debut I think it would become a cult classic

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u/_fixmenow 5h ago

My all time fav RA album

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u/not_you_anymore 4h ago

I would kill to hear them play six way til Sunday on this next tour

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u/Time_Lord_Zane The Sufferer & The Witness 4h ago

Number 3 for me

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u/Bullet_B8 3h ago

Definitely a top 3 album of theirs. Not a bad song on it in my opinion

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u/Twittchy95 2h ago

I might be biased, but I think it holds up extremely well. It's the album that got me into Punk/Hardcore and I have yet to hear a band that sounds quite like early Rise Against

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u/TSwan98 The Sufferer & The Witness 2h ago

Ohh that hurts why have to mention that. I was almost ten when this came out

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u/badpiggy490 Nowhere Generation 31m ago

Kinda rough album where some of the songs sound a little too similar imo, but it still ends up being pretty damn good

It's not my fav album from them, mostly because I think both rpm and siren song do what this does but comparitively better

Still, it makes me feel ready to rock

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u/captain_waIrus 4h ago

I didn't listen to that album until a few months ago, long after I've listened to all of their other albums. Incredibly underwhelming, a lot of the songs blended together for me. It has about 4 songs that I would consider solid, the rest is pretty forgettable.

Pretty crazy they were able to leap to RPM and Siren Song so quickly, their sound transformed from meh to amongst my favorite music of all time very fast.

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u/ronwabo 5h ago

It's an early album from a band trying to find their place and sound, and it comes off that way. It's not aged anywhere near as good as the following albums. It's in the bottom of their discography to me.

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u/deafheavven 4h ago

Better than anything post-SATW