Evil Empire - Rage Against The Machine

Well to take a bit of a break from Shed Seven and Runrig I decided to pull something a bit heavier out of my collection after seeing Audioslave on MTV2. No not the Audioslave album but an album by Rage Against the Machine who no make up 3/4 of Audioslave. This album was released back in 1996 and is considered to be their poorest album. The band were an American 4 piece who started out playing in some ones front room in Orange County, California. A good number of RATM (from here on) songs are political protest songs but that shouldn’t put you off as they are quite good as well. As I mentioned 3/4 of Rage are now in Audioslave, after Zack left a couple of ...

Firstly, I just want to say, now this album is as good as the first album and, yes, this is as good as anyone else I can think about’s best album. In other words… This is a very good album, a masterpiece in it’s self, but off the back as their self-titled album it really was going to find it difficult. And don’t worry; Tom Morrello is still a legend on this album. The Cons Okay, let’s get the cons over us. Firstly… Zack’s voice. It seems like he’s a lot older now. Last album, his voice sounded like he hadn’t gone thru puberty and well even though this must read very corny, it sounded better. It ...

This is a problem faced by many bands.... 1990 - Your band explode onto the international rock scene with a revolutionary debut album, that was, and still is an absolutely fantastic album... 1994 - After four long years you release the follow up to the debut mentioned above. How could any band follow up such a great album? Zak De La Rocha, Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Timmy C set out to find a way... This album is very different to their self-titled debut. The rapping and lyrics are greatly improved and their is far more variety in between the individual songs, this is the story of an ever changing band... Track 1 - People Of The Sun: ...