Rise (Bad Brains album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Rise
Type = Album
Artist = Bad Brains


Released = August 17, 1993
Recorded = April 1993
Genre = Alternative rock, crossover thrash, heavy metal
Label = Epic Records
Producer = Beau Hill
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://wc07.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jnfqxqrgldke~T1 link]
Last album = "Spirit Electricity"
(1991)
This album = "Rise"
(1993)
Next album = "God of Love"
(1995)

"Rise" is the fifth full-length studio album by hardcore punk pioneers Bad Brains. It is the first Bad Brains album to be released on a major label (Epic Records) and is notable for the absence of two original members: Here, a young Israel Joseph I replaces vocalist H.R. and Cro-Mags drummer Mackie Jayson, who was a session musician on the band's previous album "Quickness", replaces drummer Earl Hudson.

The album was released in the wake of a number of funk/rock acts whose sounds recalled the latter work of Bad Brains. Unfortunately for Bad Brains and several of these pioneering rap/funk/metal bands of the early 1990s, the Seattle grunge movement of 1992 had taken over the music industry, leaving Bad Brains without a record contract by the beginning of 1994.

Track listing

#Rise (Joseph I, Jenifer)
#Miss Freedom (Joseph I, Jenifer)
#Unidentified (Jenifer, Miller, Jayson)
#Love Is The Answer (Joseph I, Jenifer, Miller)
#Free (Joseph I, Jenifer, Jayson)
#Hair (L. Graham)
#Coming In Numbers (Jenifer, Miller)
#Yes Jah (Joseph I, Miller)
#Take Your Time (Joseph I, Jenifer, Miller, Jayson)
#Peace Of Mind (Joseph I, Jenifer, Miller, Jayson)
#Without You (Joseph I, Jenifer)
#Outro (Jenifer, Miller)

Personnel

*Israel Joseph I - vocals

*Dr. Know - guitar

*Darryl Jenifer - bass

*Mackie Jayson - drums