Torches in the dark

Just a guy with a Rise Against blog. "See those crazy motherfuckers to your left and right? They’re family." -Tim McIlrath || I don't do chain posts, but I will always be anti-fascist, anti-Trump, and anti-hate.  You're safe here.

[kyprioth-rising-against]

Trying to track down two concert photographers

Hi! I'm trying to find the photographers who took these - I'm trying to make art of the band, and I really want to use these photos specifically. The final art won't be for sale, just display, but I want to make sure to get permission, give credit, and possibly pay a licensing fee if needed! -A fellow Rise Against fan

The photos in question:

This one is from @nowheregeneration's post here - the source link in Instagram is broken, possibly because it had been on the band's official page but was cleared when they reset for the new album cycle. Nowheregeration is pretty sure it's from the 2021 tour, maaaaybe 2022, but that's all we've got for now.

The second photo is this one, which I (Kyprioth) shared here in 2014. At the time, I couldn't find any source aside from Pinterest and a random person using it on a Russian social media site, and unfortunately that hasn't changed.

Methods tried so far: Reverse google image search, tinyeye, and using the wayback machine on the source link in NG's post. If anyone knows secrets to getting better results with any of those tools that'd be great, but otherwise - as far as we know - we're just hoping this can spread by word of mouth until someone recognizes them and can get us in touch!

[kyprioth-rising-against]

Update: the photographer of the Tim photo has been identified! He is Kevin Baldes, and the photo is from KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, 2008!

[kyprioth-rising-against]

Trying to track down two concert photographers

Hi! I'm trying to find the photographers who took these - I'm trying to make art of the band, and I really want to use these photos specifically. The final art won't be for sale, just display, but I want to make sure to get permission, give credit, and possibly pay a licensing fee if needed! -A fellow Rise Against fan

The photos in question:

This one is from @nowheregeneration's post here - the source link in Instagram is broken, possibly because it had been on the band's official page but was cleared when they reset for the new album cycle. Nowheregeration is pretty sure it's from the 2021 tour, maaaaybe 2022, but that's all we've got for now.

The second photo is this one, which I (Kyprioth) shared here in 2014. At the time, I couldn't find any source aside from Pinterest and a random person using it on a Russian social media site, and unfortunately that hasn't changed.

Methods tried so far: Reverse google image search, tinyeye, and using the wayback machine on the source link in NG's post. If anyone knows secrets to getting better results with any of those tools that'd be great, but otherwise - as far as we know - we're just hoping this can spread by word of mouth until someone recognizes them and can get us in touch!

[nowheregeneration]

[nowheregeneration]

[open-your-eyes-child]

[kyprioth-rising-against]

We need to protect and help queer folks of all stripes. We need to protect and help trans folks. We need to protect and help folks that are immigrating to our country, we need to help them find safe spaces so they can protect themselves [and] protect their families, they can prosper, they can have better lives. And we need to free Palestine. We need to free Palestine.

-Zach Blair (of Rise Against), on "A Message From Zach," a solo minisode of his Anti-Heroes podcast "You know, I have assumed that you know who I am and where I stand on these issues in the past, I've just assumed that you knew where I stood politically, and I don't agree with the current administration and all the things that it stands for. But again, I've just assumed that, and that's unsafe. That's unsafe. I want you to know who I am."

[kikwibird]

This is genuinely the most adorable and precious post, I wanna cry every time I see it😭

[kyprioth-rising-against]

Prizefighter | Rise Against

[kyprioth-rising-against]

New Rise Against song!

[nowheregeneration]

[kyprioth-rising-against]

‘Nod’ is about the solace we find in community. It’s about the comfort in knowing that we are not alone. This comfort can temper our anger and our frustration, at least temporarily.

-Tim McIlrath of Rise Against

[kyprioth-rising-against]

Nod

And tell me where does the time really go? Tell me when is this moment we're all waiting for? The wasteland so barren, a desert where nothing can grow

I swear I have been here before I'm pleading for something til my throat is sore Standing in water, 's been rising before I was born

And time alone can suffocate I'm choking on everything we made I'm burning through each day

I swear to God, this can't wait One more minute, one more day I feel the ground shaking underneath me There's a lot here at stake If you're hearing what I'm saying Just nod if you understand me Just nod if you understand me

Expecting to grow to infinity Is like building a boat designed to sink Are you sailing the world so desperately Or are you holding a gun, demanding peace?

Because the line that is drawn between nightmares and dreams Is thin like a razor and we're fast asleep, oh When do we smile, yeah, and when do we weep?

I swear to God, this can't wait One more minute, one more day I feel the ground shaking underneath me There's a lot here at stake If you're hearing what I'm saying Just nod if you understand me Just nod

If you think it's going all too fast Oh, just nod If you think that maybe this can't last Oh, just nod

I swear to God, this can't wait One more minute, one more day I feel the ground shaking underneath me There's a lot here at stake If you're hearing what I'm saying Just nod if you understand me Just nod Just nod Oh, oh, yeah just nod

[kyprioth-rising-against]

These are times like we’ve never seen as a culture, and I do feel that it’s important in these times… not just to focus on that futility, or that futile feeling, but instead speak as loud as you can and try to push back as much as you can.

Zach Blair of Rise Against (via kyprioth-rising-against)

[themurdochmemesteries]

RISE AGAINST PLAYING BRIDGES LIVE LETS GOOOO

[zetazetsu]

And I woke up

In the middle of a dream

Chasing someone, or something

A hidden face I've never seen

Where were you when I woke up?

To a world without your voice

To sing me back to sleep

Don't let it go

Are you letting go?

Middle of a Dream, Rise Against

[parastish]

You'll never learn to fly until you're standing at the cliff

[natthemess]

maybe we all just need to hold our best friend’s hand in the mosh pit and kiss each other’s cheeks in a crowd of thousands of people as they’re singing to swing life away