The best Rage Against the Machine songs showcase the band's unique ability to deftly mix rap and rock to deliver music of the most powerful kind: politically charged, pointed and with a purpose. Frontman Zack de la Rocha's venom and vitriol was wrapped around a message, and he was often...
Some of the songs included below may have the words "guns" or "weapon" in the lyrics or title, while others are only about guns as a subject. Various firearms are sung about on these songs, including pistols, shotguns, rifles, machine guns, and more.Music isn't typically categorized by...
Rage Against the Machine are often inspired by weapons like bombs. Their songs, “Calm Like a Bomb” and “Bombtrack,” are some of the best. “Hammer to Fall” by Queen was inspired by the Cold War and they reference nuclear war with their lyrics. “Come you masters of war/You that...
Ahead of Rage Against the Machine's long-awaited reunion tour, we count down their 25 greatest songs.
52: Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine A groundbreaker in a few respects, Rage Against The Machine remains the most powerful case of a rock band absorbing hip-hop. Key tracks “Bullet in the Head” and “Killing in the Name” were made to provoke discussion, and the ...
Enter Pharrell, reciting a mantra about the circular clutches of modern capitalism in the laconic tone he once used to brag about his Gandalf hat; enter Zack de la Rocha, erstwhile Rage Against the Machine frontman, incendiary and conspiratorial about wanting to rip those systems apart. El-P’...
Kissshares parallels to the likes of Rage Against the Machine with a little less rage and a bit more love. This song strikes with its assembly precision, with its instrumental showcasing an attractive interplay within the band, stunningly complimented by the impulses of Kledis’ lyrics and ...
Rage Against the Machine, ‘Rage Against the Machine’ (1992) “I believe in this band’s ability to bridge the gap between entertainment and activism,” declared Zack de la Rocha, whose radical politics found sympathetic muscle in Tom Morello’s howling one-guitar army. On songs like “Kill...
Rage Against the Machine: Rage Against the Machine (1992) Every generation gets the rap-metal it deserves (see: the loutish gum-swallowers who ruled the late ’90s), but in 1992, Rage Against the Machine gave us the rap-metal we needed. Hearing their revolutionary ruckus on the same rock...
Elusive formerRage Against the MachinesingerZack de la Rochacame out of hiding in 2003 for this bomb track withDJ Shadow. Key lyrics: “Instead I curse at murderous men in suits of professionals who act like animals/ Man child, ruthless and wild/ Who gonna chain this beast back o...