![]() During the tour, guitarist Chris Chasse left the band and was replaced by Zach Blair. Rise Against supported the album with The Sufferer & the Witness Tour throughout the second half of 2006 and all of 2007. All three songs charted on the Modern Rock Tracks chart in the United States, and accompanying music videos were produced. Three songs from The Sufferer & the Witness were released as singles: " Ready to Fall", " Prayer of the Refugee", and " The Good Left Undone". It sold 48,000 copies in its first week, debuting at number 10 on the Billboard 200. The album follows 2004s Siren Song of the Counter Culture. Whereas their last album had a sound that mixed their own style established on Revolutions Per Minute with a sound more akin to Atlantic-era Bad Religion, The Sufferer and the Witness expands on it a bit, adding a noticeable increase in bass volume that gives some of the songs added kick and heaviness that was lacking a bit on Siren Song of the. It was their second release on popular label, Geffen Records. This album has an average beat per minute of 160 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 104/209 BPM). Sufferer however was the best of what was to come and a classic Punk Rock album and the one I gift friends. The Sufferer & the Witness is the fourth album by American punk rock band Rise Against. Reviewers also highlighted the vocals of singer Tim McIlrath and the production of Stevenson and Livermore. The Sufferer and the Witness was a water down version of the first three albums and lacked what those albums oozed. Critical appraisal was mainly positive, with reviewers complimenting Rise Against's ability to mature in its sound while simultaneously retain its punk roots. The Sufferer & the Witness sold 48,327 copies in its first week of release, and charted in seven countries, including the United States where it entered at position ten on the Billboard 200. Rise Against, in The Sufferer & The Witness at least, manage for the most part to maintain a strength in each song which contrast the weaker parts. Dissatisfied with Siren Song of the Counter Culture 's (2004) producer Garth Richardson, the band members decided to record their next album with Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore, the duo that worked on their 2003 album Revolutions per Minute.
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