They don't change the outlook really they just shed light on what they think we are doing wrong or could improve upon.
War is bad
Nope.
Rise Against writes songs predominantly about social and political issues including war, inequality, environmental destruction, and activism. They often aim to inspire change and raise awareness about important topics.
January 3,2001
They're anti-war.
Standard EADGBE tuning
yes
believe-yellowcard (september 11th) hero of war-rise against (afghanistan)
Some believe "Hero of War" by Rise Against is about the war in Iraq. It is more about the bad things that we are doing there. Tim had a friend that was a soldier who told him stories, look up Rise Against: Making of the Video "Hero of War" Others speculate that it is opposing the universal concept of war, no matter what the individual countries involved are. In the song, the country of the narrator's origin is never named or suggested, indicating that it is an opposition to war in general.
It affected them because many citizens had a negative outlook on them because their home country was fighting against us in the war.
May 20th, 2009
Thousand of people were killed in the civil war.