Rise Against to “recharge batteries” after touring, announce plans for next album

After nearly two years of touring relentlessly in support of their last album, Rise Against frontman Tim McIlrath recently told Rolling Stone that the band will “recharge their batteries” before they begin work on their next album. He clarifies:

“We’re kind of focusing on recharging our batteries right now. We’ve been a band for 12 years. We’ve been hitting it hard and looking at this band like a marathon, not a sprint. We realize we need to invest time into our music and our songs, as well as invest time into ourselves, our lives, so I think for the next few months that’s what we’ll be doing – getting away from it so we get a better perspective on what we want to do and what we want to accomplish when we sit down to write the next record.”

Rise Against’s most recent studio album, Endgame, was released in March 2011 on Interscope Records.