Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine

• 1 Bombtrack 04:04
• 2 Killing In the Name 05:13
• 3 Take the Power Back 05:36
• 4 Settle for Nothing 04:47
• 5 Bullet In the Head 05:08
• 6 Know Your Enemy 04:55
• 7 Wake Up 06:04
• 8 Fistful of Steel 05:31
• 9 Township Rebellion 05:24
• 10 Freedom 06:06
• Total Runtime 52:48

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On paper, Rage Against The Machine reads like Beavis, Boogie Down Productions and Butt-Head: an angry and enlightened rap frontman who preaches a multi-cultural alternative to what they teach you in schools and show you on TV, backed by a funky heavy metal rhythm section whose vampage and riffing pay direct tribute to the likes of the Edgar Winter Group and Led Zeppelin.

But there's no sense of fusion here. Neither a metal band toying with rap nor a rap group fronting as a rock band, R.A.T.M. is four guys who were never told that there's a difference, and who don't care to know. The knowledge-is-good-but-schools-are-bad rap, 'Take The Power Back,' gives way to a metal instrumental bridge; and the guitar that introduces the Martin/Malcolm/Cassius homage, 'Wake Up,' pays its own tribute to Zeppelin's 'Kashmir.' The closest spiritual--but not stylistic--reference point are the alternative raps of the Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy; and Rage's 'Bullet In The Head' may be the best song about TV since the Heroes' 'Television, The Drug Of The Nation.'

Rapper Zack De La Rocha has a thin voice that sounds more like a bored suburban thrasher than an inner-city rhyme animal, but his lyrics are something else altogether. Rising high above the nihilism of both hard-core rap and punk, he offers not just good slogans for a t-shirt, but the promise of a system to replace the one he's bent on destroying. His is a revolution with a purpose.

„Probably the first album to successfully merge the seemingly disparate sounds of rap and heavy metal, Rage Against the Machine's self-titled debut was groundbreaking enough when released in 1992, but many would argue that it has yet to be surpassed in terms of influence and sheer brilliance -- though countless bands have certainly tried. This is probably because the uniquely combustible creative relationship between guitar wizard Tom Morello and literate rebel vocalist Zack de la Rocha could only burn this bright, this once. While the former's roots in '80s heavy metal shredding gave rise to an inimitable array of six-string acrobatics and rhythmic special effects (few of which anyone else has managed to replicate), the latter delivered meaningful rhymes with an emotionally charged conviction that suburban white boys of the ensuing nu-metal generation could never hope to touch. As a result, syncopated slabs of hard rock insurrection like 'Bombtrack,' 'Take the Power Back,' and 'Know Your Enemy' were as instantly unforgettable as they were astonishing. Yet even they paled in comparison to veritable clinics in the art of slowly mounting tension such as 'Settle for Nothing,' 'Bullet in the Head,' and the particularly venomous 'Wake Up' (where Morello revises Led Zeppelin's 'Kashmir' riff for his own needs) -- all of which finally exploded with awesome power and fury. And even listeners who were unable (or unwilling) to fully process the band's unique clash of muscle and intellect were catered to, as RATM were able to convey their messages through stubborn repetition via the fundamental challenge of 'Freedom' and their signature track, 'Killing in the Name,' which would become a rallying cry of disenfranchisement, thanks to its relentlessly rebellious mantra of 'Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!' Ultimately, if there's any disappointment to be had with this near-perfect album, it's that it still towers above subsequent efforts as the unequivocal climax of Rage Against the Machine's vision. As such, it remains absolutely essential.“ (Eduardo Rivadavia, AMG)

'...some of the fiercest, most impassioned musical polemics ever....fuses metal-tinged punk rock with hardcore rap....relentlessly inventive...' (Spin)

Zack de la Rocha, vocals
Tom Morello, guitar
Tim Commerford, bass, backing vocals
Brad Wilk, drums, percussion
Additional musicians:
Maynard James Keenan, additional vocals on 'Know Your Enemy'
Stephen Perkins, additional percussion on 'Know Your Enemy'

Recorded April–May 1992 at Sound City, Van Nuys; Scream Studios, Studio City; Industrial Recording, North Hollywood, CA
Engineered by Stan Katayama
Produced by Garth Richardson, Rage Against the Machine

Digitally remastered

Rage Against the Machine
is an American alternative rock band, formed in 1991 in Los Angeles, California. The band's line-up comprises vocalist Zack De La Rocha, guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk. Critics have noted Rage Against the Machine for its 'fiercely polemical music, which brewed sloganeering leftist rants against corporate America, cultural imperialism, and government oppression into a Molotov cocktail of punk, hip-hop, and thrash.

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