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Rage Against The Machine tunes

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Rage Against The Machine’s band members formed Audioslave!

Rage Against The Machine formed in 1991 and released their extremely successful self-titled debut the following year.

Consisting of guitarist Tom Morello, vocalist Zack De La Rocha, bassist Tim Commerford, and drummer Brad Wilk, they released two more albums with original material following their debut.

Ten years after they formed, the singer left for a solo career. Statistically speaking, that would have been it for the rest of the band, the singer leaves for a successful solo career, the band retires, drummer works in a Supermarket.

Not so for this band, the three band members teamed up with Chris Cornell from Soundgarden and formed the awesome Audioslave, my favourite rock band.

You can learn how to play three Rage Against The Machine tunes!

The second single from the debut album, Bullet In The Head, is a reference to how the media is used by the government to control the population.

The track was transferred intact from the demo recording.

The first single from the debut album, Killing In The Name has become RATM’s signature song.

In 1993 it peaked at #25 in the charts, and in 2009 it became a U.K. Xmas #1, mainly as a campaign to prevent the X Factor winner’s single from taking the #1 spot.

Tom Morello invented the riff during a lesson as he was teaching a student about drop D tuning.

Another political, anti-government message we find in Know Your Enemy, a song that heavily criticizes the American government.

Finishing off with the line: Compromise. Conformity. Assimilation. Submission. Ignorance. Hypocrisy. Brutality. The Elite. All of which are American dreams! This was probably the most powerful lyric of the album.