Evil Empire - Rage Against The Machine Reviews

1996 saw the long awaited release of Rage Against the Machine's second album 'Evil Empire', a much darker and heavier album than their self titled debut. In league with their political stand point the title is in reference to the name given to the former Soviet Union by Ronald Regan and other conservatives. Although the album was produced 12 years ...  Read the complete review

Evil Empire is the reason i got into rock and metal music. A friend bought me a copy for my birthday and I didnt listen to anything else for the rest of the day, the next day i went out and bought the rest pof their albums. Down Rodeo has to be one o ftheir best tracks the ever made. The whole album is fantastic there is not a single song i skip. ...  Read the complete review

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. ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Rage Against The Machine are one of the most important bands in the history of rapcore music. Sadly, however they have recently split up. This was gratefully not before writing great muic and albums such as Evil Empire. The songs on the album cover a range of moral issues which make them relevant to everyone. Capitalism is one of the things that ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

This album has an incredible burden: it follows the jaw-droppingly hard-hitting album that is Rage's self-titled album. That album is probably a tie for the best album ever. So it figures that "Evil Empire" wouldn't QUITE match it. But "Evil Empire" more than lives up to Rage's reputation as quite possibly ...  Read the complete review

Rage against the machine for 10 years bridged the gap between rock and rap very successfully. In their finest hour they produced "Rage against the machine" a defining album for that music genre. Unfortunately this album wasnt able to bridge the gap to that effect.Again they kept it short and sweet with just 11 songs bu instead of a ...  Read the complete review

This album is always underrated by the critics, but I always loved it, it continues the aggression of the first album, along with the scathing political lyrics, but also expands the sound, to produce songs that are funkier and better developed than the first album. The evolution from 'Rage..' through to Battle of Los angeles is clear with ...  Read the complete review

Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire - 1996 Guilty Parties: Vocals - Zach De La Rocha Guitars - Tom Morello Bass - Tim Bob Drums - Brad Wilk 1. People of the Sun - Morello lets you know he still has the creativity from the start, he pulls out an Alan's wrench and plays this horizontally. De La Rocha already showing ...  Read the complete review

I had bought the previous self entitled rage album, and was pleasantly surpirsed with the quality of the music, lyrics etc. So when I got my grubby little paws onto this cd, I was waiting in earnest for the hard rock fest that was to surely prevail, and after 3 tracls I was happy. The cd was living up to, and surpassing my every expectation of ...  Read the complete review

When I first bought this album, I was expecting something like their first. To my surprise (and shock) it was much more of a rap album - here the vocals take the lead, with the bass and guitar adding to the song in much different ways to the first album - gone are the moster riffs from Morello - instead he displays his immense talent for ...  Read the complete review

Rage again don't disappoint with there scond album in 4 years. The powerful and political lyrics of Zack De Longe and the great guitar tricks of Tom Morello make this album one of the best they have done. The songs that stand out for me are "Vietnow" and "Snakecharmer". "Vietnow" has a wonderful catchy chorus that ...  Read the complete review

Four years after their pioneering debut, RATM returned with a *hugely* anticipated follow-up, and one that would dissapoint some fans, but not a whole lot. Atleast RATM progressed then, somewhat. If their debut was a mixture of metal and rap, 'EE' could well be described as a mixture of punk and hip-hop, with some extra funk. ...  Read the complete review

I waited in anticipation for this album and was serverly dissapointed with it. The lyrics are great, but the music is very repetitive. I was hoping that RATM was goiong to come with a new sound after such a long break. It seems that they are to concerned with their message than their music. Still, at least they haven't ...  Read the complete review