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Metacritic	76/100
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AbsolutePunk	78%
AllMusic
Alternative Press
Consequence of Sound	C+
Entertainment Weekly	B
NME	(8/10)
PopMatters
Rock Sound	9/10
Rolling Stone
Spin	5/10
Sputnikmusic	4/5

Endgame is the sixth studio album by American rock band Rise Against, released on March 15, 2011 through DGC Records and Interscope Records. Rise Against began work on the album in September 2010, after completing touring in support of its previous album, Appeal to Reason, in mid-2010. The first single from the album, "Help Is on the Way" debuted on KROQ and KKDO on January 17, 2011, and was released on the band's MySpace and digital media outlets on January 25, 2011. The album entered the Billboard 200 at number two, the band's highest position to date. The album has been certified platinum by the CRIA, gold by the BVMI and gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

Following the commercial success of the band's fifth studio album, Appeal to Reason, and the subsequent touring to support the album, Rise Against entered The Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colorado (the same studio where all their albums, except The Unraveling and Siren Song of the Counter Culture, were recorded) in September 2010 to begin recording their next album. Rise Against finished recording the album in January 2011, after they recorded some last minute guest vocals for the album.

The album deals with "the end of humankind as we know it," with lyrics addressing world events and politics, including Hurricane Katrina, recent LGBT teen suicides, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. According to Tim McIlrath, "Endgame was a way to talk about the world in a different way than we have before. It is talking about the world from the perspective that it’s too late to recycle. It’s too late to drive a hybrid. It’s too late to decide whether you believe in global warming or not because global warming has devoured the planet." Although the lyrics discuss grim topics, they actually take on a positive view and were written from the perspective of "What if the place on the other [side] of this transition is [a] place we'd all rather be living in?"

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