EXCLUSIVE: Stream Rise Against’s Nirvana Cover ‘Sliver’ From Upcoming B-Sides Album

Rise Against are releasing the ultimate possession for die-hard fans, a collection of B-sides and covers dating back to 2000 titled Long Forgotten Songs: B-Sides & Covers 2000 – 2013, and to mark the occasion we’ve got an exclusive stream of a track from the record – their take on the Nirvana classic Sliver.

Long Forgotten Songs is a collection of moments from the seminal punk rock outfit’s last 13 years, including their pre-Fat Wreck Chords days, where the band wrote songs which never made their way to a proper release. As their raw take on Sliver shows, many of the tracks are going to be rough-as-guts, straight-up punk chaos sure to put fans in a mild frenzy.

Speaking of the release, and the decision-making process behind which tracks made the cut, frontman Tim McIlrath says:

“The songs that really aren’t good enough, you’ll never hear. They never make it outside of our practice space. If we finish a song, bring it to the studio, write lyrics, and see it to fruition, then it becomes one of the children that make up a family of songs. If we weren’t proud of it, it would have been scrapped along the way.”

The album is sure to be somewhat of a gap buster for the band, who announced at the start of this year that they would be taking a break before they get cracking on the follow up to 2011’s Endgame.

You can check out the full tracklist for the record beneath the stream, and you can also watch a pretty interesting promo-reel for the album. Pre-orders for Long Forgotten Songs are available now.

Listen: Rise Against – Sliver (Nirvana cover)

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Watch: Rise Against EPK – Long Forgotten Songs: C-Side

Long Forgotten Songs: B-Sides & Covers 2000 – 2013 Track List:

1. Historia Calamitatum

2. Death Blossoms

3. Elective Amnesia

4. Grammatizator

5. Blind

6. Everchanging

7. Generation Lost

8. Dirt and Roses

9. Ballad of Hollis Brown

10. Sight Unseen

11. Lanterns

12. Making Christmas

13. Join The Ranks

14. Built To Last

15. Voice of Dissent

16. Little Boxes

17. Give it All

18. Minor Threat

19. Obstructed View

20. But Tonight We Dance

21. Nervous Breakdown

22. Gethsemane

23. Boy’s No Good

24. Any Way You Want It

25. Sliver

26. The Ghost of Tom Joad

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