Black Flag's album Damaged was included in Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, and the Dead Kennedys have seen one of their albums reach gold status over a period of 25 years. While traditional hardcore has never experienced mainstream commercial success, some of its early pioneers have garnered appreciation over time. Hardcore sprouted underground scenes across the United States in the early 1980s particularly in Washington, D.C., California, New York/New Jersey, and Boston-as well as in Canada and the United Kingdom. It has influenced a number of music genres which have experienced mainstream success, such as alternative rock, alternative metal, metalcore, thrash metal, emo and post-hardcore. Hardcore was heavily involved with the rise of the independent record labels in the 1980s, and with the DIY ethics in underground music scenes. Hardcore has spawned the straight edge movement and its associated submovements, hardline and youth crew. may have helped to popularize the term with the title of their 1981 album, Hardcore '81. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. Hardcore is generally faster, heavier, and more abrasive than regular punk rock. The band wanted the video to showcase how conventional business models allow for various human rights violations.Hardcore punk (or referred to simply as hardcore) is a punk rock music genre that originated in the late 1970s. In the accompanying music video, the band performs in a retail store, with intermittent shots of foreign workers making the store products. Critics praised the contrasting verse-chorus format, as well as the simple yet effective lyrics. Commercially, "Prayer of the Refugee" reached number seven on the Alternative Songs chart, and was later certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. It was released as The Sufferer & the Witness's second single on December 6, 2006.
The song uses a contrasting verse-chorus form, with slow and melancholic verses against fast-paced and chaotic choruses.
The lyrics were written by lead vocalist Tim McIlrath, and deal with the themes of forced displacement and the societal issues surrounding refugees. "Prayer of the Refugee" is a song by American rock band Rise Against, featured on their fourth studio album The Sufferer & the Witness (2006).
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