Tim McIlrath has a theory – more like learned experience, really – that no matter who you are and what you’ve done in life, when you return home and sit at the dinner table with your family, you naturally and sometimes unintentionally resume your earliest role of son, daughter, sibling, cousin, child.

“Because that’s the dynamic you grew up in,” he explains. “You’ve gone all over the world and spread your wings, but you come back to that same table and you’re like, ‘I’m still that guy.’”

The Rise Against vocalist/guitarist is comparing this universal position to that of his band going into their 10th album Ricochet. Up until this point, the Chicago punk rock heroes have remained extremely – and admirably – consistent. But, Tim thought, rather than returning to a studio like Fort Collin

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