{"id":604,"date":"2008-10-03T18:08:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T08:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=604"},"modified":"2008-10-05T13:19:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T03:19:37","slug":"when-youre-not-expecting-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"When you&#8217;re not expecting much&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rise Against have done alot in their existance as a band, more lineup changes than is worth counting, a couple of record labels, a quintet of albums and shitloads of tours. Basically the only thing that has remained a constant throughout is the fact that they&#8217;ve been getting steadily worse. Each album seems to get shitter than the last (with the possible exception of Revolutions Per Minute which is probably as good as The Uravelling but&#8230; you get the point).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/d\/df\/ATRFinal.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0So what a surprise I got when I found a copy of their latest work and discovered that they&#8217;ve written some ripper songs this time around. I was expecting a bunch of radio singles, slow and with big choruses and there are a few, sure, but there is also a powerload or awsome stuff too. And having expected it to be bad, well&#8230; it just makes it even better. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> [audio:http:\/\/www.disconnectrecords.com\/mp3s\/05-rise_against-kotov_syndrome.mp3]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise Against have done alot in their existance as a band, more lineup changes than is worth counting, a couple of record labels, a quintet of albums and shitloads of tours. Basically the only thing that has remained a constant throughout is the fact that they&#8217;ve been getting steadily worse. Each album seems to get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=604\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When you&#8217;re not expecting much&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}