Rise Against Music Video Shoot Shut Down For Being “Anti-Government”

Rise Against are releasing a brand new record on June 9th titled ‘Wolves’.
A while back, the band released the first single off of this record, titled ‘The Violence’.
As many bands do, Rise Against had plans to shoot a music video for this single, but ran into some trouble in the process of making arrangements.
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The director for this music video had the idea to shoot this particular video in a field filled with presidential busts. A permit for the shooting of this video was granted at first, but was retracted as a board of directors deemed the idea for the music video “anti-government”.

Never bowing out of a fight, Rise Against took to their social media channels to broadcast this to their many fans across the globe.
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Their entire statement can be read below.