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{{Infobox_band |
band_name = Rage Against the Machine |
image = [[Image:Ratmband.jpg|250px]] |
caption = Left to right: Brad Wilk, Zack de la Rocha, Tim Commerford, Tom Morello |
years_active = [[1991]]–[[2000]] |
music_genre = [[Alternative metal]]<br>[[Funk Metal]]<br>[[Rapcore]]<br>[[Alternative rock]] |
origin = [[Los Angeles, California]] |
record_label = [[Sony BMG Music Entertainment]]<br/>[[Epic Records]] |
current_members = [[Zack de la Rocha]] - lead vocals<br />[[Tom Morello]] - guitar<br />[[Tim Commerford]] - bass<br />[[Brad Wilk]] - drums|
}}
'''Rage Against the Machine''', also known as '''Rage''' or '''RATM''', was an [[United States|American]] rock band noted both for their diligent political conscience and for their pioneering blend of hard rock and rap which over time would come to be known variously as [[Rock Music|Rock]], [[Rap Rock]], [[Hard Rock]], [[Funk Metal]] and [[Alternative Rock]] or [[Alternative Metal]] — as well as their vocal [[radical leftist]] beliefs. At the point of their break-up in [[2000]], ''Rage Against the Machine'' had become one of the most popular political hard rock bands of all time, and certainly of the [[1990s]]. Currently, three members of the band – [[Tom Morello]], [[Tim Commerford]], and [[Brad Wilk]] – are members of [[Audioslave]], featuring former [[Soundgarden]] singer [[Chris Cornell]].


Rage drew inspiration from early [[hard rock|metallic]] instrumentation, as well as rap acts such as [[Public Enemy]], and [[Afrika Bambaataa]]. The coalescence of rhyming styles and vocals along with their sound, especially [[Tom Morello]]'s [[electric guitar|guitar]] techniques, makes RATM difficult to confine to any one particular [[musical genre]].


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==History== [['''''
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[[Image:RATM1.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|The photo cover of ''Rage'''s [[Rage Against the Machine (album)|self-titled release]] from 1992. [[Thích Quảng Đức]], a [[Vietnamese]] [[Buddhist]] monk, [[self-immolation|burns himself to death]] in [[Saigon]] in [[1963]]. Thích was protesting the oppression of Buddhists led by [[United States|U.S.]]-installed [[Prime Minister of Vietnam|Prime Minister]] [[Ngo Dinh Diem]]'s administration.]]
Tom Morello left his old band, Lock Up, and decided to start another band. Morello was in a club in L.A where [[Zack de la Rocha]] was rapping. Morello was impressed by de la Rocha, and asked him to join his band. Tom called and drafted a drummer named Brad Wilk, who had previously auditioned for Lock Up. De la Rocha had a childhood friend, Tim Commerford, who he got to join. The band was now composed of Tom Morello (guitar), Zack de la Rocha (Vocals), Brad Wilk (Drums) and Tim Commerford (Bass). Their name was derived from the unreleased album "Rage Against the Machine" by de la Rocha's former group, [[Inside Out]], as well as being a reference to a speech by [[Karl Marx]], where he told workers to "Rage Against The Machine".{{fact}} Shortly after forming, they gave their first public performance in living room in [[Orange County, California]], which was where a friend of Tim's was holding a house party, and self-produced a 12-song [[Compact audio cassette|cassette]] which already included songs like "Bullet in the Head" [http://www.epicrecords.com/ratm/]. Several record labels expressed interest and they eventually signed with [[Epic Records]]. Morello said, "Epic agreed to everything we asked--and they've followed through... we never saw a[n] [ideological] conflict as long as we maintained creative control."

Their debut album, the self-titled ''[[Rage Against the Machine (album)|Rage Against the Machine]]'' was released in late 1992. To promote the album and its core message of [[social justice]] and [[Social equality|equality]], the band went on tour, playing at [[Lollapalooza]] II and as support for ''[[Suicidal Tendencies]]'' in [[Europe]].

===Mainstream success===
Their second album, ''[[Evil Empire (album)|Evil Empire]]'' entered Billboard Top 200 chart at number one in 1996. A live video, also titled ''[[Rage Against the Machine (video)|Rage Against the Machine]]'' followed in 1997. The following release, ''[[The Battle of Los Angeles (album)|The Battle of Los Angeles]]'' also debuted at number one in 1999, selling 450,000 copies the first week and then going [[platinum album|double-platinum]].

''[[Renegades (album)|Renegades]]'', released shortly after the band's dissolution, was a 2000 collection of [[cover song|covers]] of bands as diverse as [[Devo]], [[Cypress Hill]], [[Minor Threat]], [[MC5]] and even [[Bob Dylan]] (They performed many of the songs on the album at live concerts before they broke up). The following year saw the release of another live video, ''[[The Battle of Mexico City]]''.

A [[bootleg]] album of live and rare material fittingly titled ''[[Live & Rare (album)|Live & Rare]]'' from 1997, was followed up by a proper live release, ''[[Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium]]'' in 2003, an edited recording of their last shows, September 12 and 13, 2000 at the [[Grand Olympic Auditorium]] in [[Los Angeles]]. It was accompanied with an expanded DVD release of the concerts.

On May 4th, 2006 the song '''Bulls on Parade''' entered VH1's '''[[40 Greatest Metal Songs]]''' at #15. While this shows the mainstream impact of '''Rage's''' success, such lists released by VH1 are widely discredited.

Rage Against The Machine is still very popular to this day, and they are played frequently on various rock radio stations.

===Political Beliefs===
[[Image:RATM_-_Burningamp.jpg|thumb|250px|left|RATM burned the [[American Flag]] at the [[1999 woodstock festival]].]]Integral to their identity as a band, the group voiced far left viewpoints highly critical of the domestic and foreign policies of the U.S. Throughout its existence, ''RATM'' participated in political [[protest]]s to advocate these beliefs, including an infamous performance outside the [[2000 Democratic National Convention]] and a performance on [[Wall Street]] earlier that same year. In the case of the latter, on January 26th, 2000, filming of their music video "[[Sleep Now in the Fire]]" — directed by [[Michael Moore]] — shut down the [[New York Stock Exchange]]. The NYSE [http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1433553/20000128/rage_against_the_machine.jhtml locked its doors midday in response to fears] of crowds gathering to watch the filming. Footage of enthusiastic Wall Street employees [[headbanging]] to Rage's music was later used in the completed "Sleep Now In The Fire" video.

The band primarily saw its music as a vehicle for [[social activism]]. Tom Morello, in a February 1997 interview with [[Guitar World]], said,

:''America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn't belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don't care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.''

Meanwhile, detractors on the Radical Left pointed out the tension between voicing commitment to leftist causes while being signed to [[Epic Records]], a [[subsidiary]] of media conglomerate [[Sony Records]]. In response, Morello pointed out,

:''When you live in a [[capitalism|capitalistic]] society, the currency of the dissemination of information goes through capitalistic channels. Would [[Noam Chomsky]] object to his works being sold at [[Barnes & Noble]]? No, because that's where people buy their books. We're not interested in preaching to just the converted. It's great to play abandoned squats run by anarchists, but it's also great to be able to reach people with a revolutionary message, people from [[Granada Hills]] to [[Stuttgart]].''

Some controversial stands taken by the group include tireless advocacy for the releases of former [[Black Panther Party|Black Panther]] [[death row|death-row]] inmate [[Mumia Abu-Jamal]] and life-sentenced political activist [[Leonard Peltier]]. The band were also supporters of the [[Zapatista Army of National Liberation|Zapatistas]], especially de la Rocha, who has taken several trips to the [[Mexico|Mexican]] state of [[Chiapas]] to aid their efforts, and whose travels were soon documented, in part, in one of the band's concert videos.

The song [[Bulls on Parade]] was performed on [[Saturday Night Live]] in April of [[1996]]. Their two-song performance was cut to one song when the band attempted to hang inverted American flags from their amplifiers, a protest to having presidential candidate [[Steve Forbes]] as guest host on the program that night.

At a [[Lollapalooza]] appearance in 1993 in [[Philadelphia]], the band stood onstage naked with duct-tape on their mouths and the letters "PMRC" painted on their chests for 15 minutes in protest against [[censorship]] by the [[Parents Music Resource Center]]. The only sound emitted was [[audio feedback]] from Morello and Commerford's guitars. Regarding this event, Morello told [[Revolver (magazine)|Revolver]] magazine in 2003 that "after 10 minutes the crowd turned savagely hostile and people started throwing things." In the book ''Rage Against the Machine'' <ref>[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0312273266&itm=1 ''Rage Against the Machine''] Retrieved June 15, 2006</ref> by Colin Devenish, Commerford is quoted as saying, "Want me to be perfectly frank? The size of my [[penis]] — that's what was going through my mind in Philadelphia. It looked like I'd just stepped out of the ocean. I swear to God, it's bigger than that. So I was thinking; I wish I'd worn boxer shorts before instead of briefs, because briefs kinda like constrict me. I took them off and it was this ... half-roll of [[nickle]]s." In an interview with [[Modern Drummer]], Wilk was quoted as saying, "I was thinking about how the wind felt underneath my [[scrotum]], and what the people in the front were thinking, and all the cameras flashing, what the photographers were going to be thinking as they developed their film. Actually, doing that was no big deal. It didn't freak me out. That's how we all come into the world. It's a liberating thing."

===Break-up===
[[Image:Ratm_renegades.png|thumb|200px|''[[Renegades (album)|Renegades]]'', RATM's last studio album.]]

On October 18, 2000, de la Rocha released the following statement :

:''I feel that it is now necessary to leave Rage because our decision-making process has completely failed. It is no longer meeting the aspirations of all four of us collectively as a band, and from my perspective, has undermined our artistic and political ideal. I am extremely proud of our work, both as activists and musicians, as well as indebted and grateful to every person who has expressed solidarity and shared this incredible experience with us.''

{{main|Audioslave}}
After the group's breakup, Morello, Wilk, and Commerford briefly tried to replace de la Rocha in RATM. Rumoured vocalists at the time included [[Rey Oropeza]] of [[downset.]], [[Chuck D]] of [[Public Enemy]], and [[B-Real]] of [[Cypress Hill]]. However, the band teamed up with ex-[[Soundgarden]] singer [[Chris Cornell]] to form a new band, [[Audioslave]]. The first Audioslave single, "[[Cochise (song)|Cochise]]", was released in early November 2002, and the [[Audioslave (album)|first album]] followed to mainly positive reviews. However, Cornell's preference to be in the band without rampant political messages have detracted some of Rage's core fan base. Their second album ''[[Out of Exile]]'' debuted at the number one position on the Billboard charts in 2005. The band are currently recording a third one, stated for a summer 2006 release and has vowed to have "one-album-per-year" schedule.

In September 2004, de la Rocha released a song called "We Want It All", produced by [[Trent Reznor]], on the ''[[Songs and Artists that Inspired Fahrenheit 9/11]]'' soundtrack. Tom Morello, credited as "The Nightwatchman," also contributed a song entitled "No One Left" to this compilation. De la Rocha was also featured on the song "Act III Scene 2 (Shakespeare)" on [[Saul Williams]]' [[Saul Williams (album)|self-titled album]].

According to a ''[[Spin magazine]]'' interview, de la Rocha has recorded several tracks with various artists, among them [[Reprazent]] and [[DJ Shadow]] intended for a solo album. He appeared in the first part of [[Blackalicious]]' 9+ minute, multi-sectioned song "Release" on the 2002 album ''[[Blazing Arrow]]''. In 2003 a song called "March of Death" that he recorded with DJ Shadow was released in protest of the [[2003 Iraq War|war on Iraq]].

==References in popular culture==
*The song "Sleep Now in the Fire" is used as the opening soundtrack for MTV's ''On The Rock'', however the show has yet to play any Rage Against the Machine videos.

*When [[Raj Pannu]] led the [[Alberta New Democratic Party|Alberta New Democrats]], the [[social democracy|social democratic]] political party in [[Alberta]], [[Canada]], "Raj Against the Machine" was a popular campaign slogan, especially on t-shirts.

*RATM is referred to in the song "Flagpole Sitta" by [Harvey Danger]. The line states "I want to publish zines / and rage against machines".

*[[Zach de la Rocha]] is a frequent "guest star" on the internet comic [http://www.flemcomics.com/ Flem], where he often appears any time one of the characters says the word "Testify", and destroys everything in sight.[http://www.flemcomics.com/d/20020916.html] He also appears during random moments for no apparent reason [http://www.flemcomics.com/d/20020510.html] This has become something of a popular [[List of Internet phenomena|Internet phenomenon]].

*[[Ugly Kid Joe]] has a song called "Rage against the answering machine" on their album ''[[Motel California]]''.

*[[Bill Hicks]] ended his last performance with the track "Killing in the name", starting were De La Rocha shouts "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me." During this Hicks can be seen running around flipping members of the audience off while shouting along with the chorus.

*[[OPM (band)|OPM]] have a song called "Rage Against The Coke Machine" on ''[[Menace To Sobriety]]''.

*It is believed that following the [[September 11, 2001 attacks|September 11th attacks]], [[Clear Channel]] [[List of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel following the September 11, 2001 attacks|banned the playing]] of '''all''' RATM songs on Clear Channel radio stations for an unspecified period.

*In the [[Simpsons]] episode titled "[[The Heartbroke Kid]]", Bart says that he "raged against the machine and money poured out" after destroying school vending machines.

*In the [[Simpsons]] episode titled "[[Fat Man and Little Boy]]", Bart says that his t-shirt expresses his "rage at the machine". The t-shirt read "Adults Suck, Then You Are One".

*In the game [[Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2]], Rage Against The Machine's Guerrilla Radio is on the soundtrack.

*In the movie ''[[The Matrix]]'', the last scene ends with the song 'Wake Up', from the ''[[Rage Against the Machine (album)|Rage Against the Machine]]'' album.

*In the movie ''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]'', during the credits, RATM's 'Calm Like a Bomb' is played from ''[[The Battle of Los Angeles (album)|The Battle of Los Angeles]]'' album.

*RATM is referenced in the title of [[Richard Cheese]]'s 2000 album ''[[Lounge Against the Machine]]'', this also being the name of his back up group. The album contains a ''swankified'' version of the song [[Guerilla Radio]].

*Australian band [[TISM]] have a live album entitled ''[[Machines Against the Rage]]''

*The [[Opie and Anthony]] Show on [[XM Satellite Radio]] use RATM's version of [[Street Fighting Man]] (a [[Rolling Stones]] song covered by RATM on their album ''[[Renegades (album)|Renegades]]'') as the opening soundtrack to their show

*[[Eminem]] says, "on stage screaming like Rage Against the Machine" in his song '[[Just Don't Give a Fuck]]'.

*Rapper [[Talib Kweli]] says, "We bring it straight to your face from the start, yo, Rage Against The Machine, break it apart" in his song ''"Down For The Count"'' from the [[Reflection Eternal]] album.

*Rapper [[Cage]] says, "I'm against the machine like rage" in the opening verse of his song Agent Orange.

*Australian Comedian John Safran has a reference to RATM at the beginning of his program Music Jamboree joking about how they took the lyrics "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me." out of their song "Killing In The Name" because the record company told them to. Although that particular line was cut out of the radio version, it remains in the album version.

*Rapper [[Necro]] says "ragin' like Morello" in his song "Watch Your Back"

*On [[MTV]]'s [[Celebrity Deathmatch]], Rage Against the Machine faced "the Machine": rather than capitalists, bureaucrats or other represenatatives of the world order (to Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello's disappointment), their opponent was literally a giant robotic machine. The Machine won, killing Tim Cummerford and Brad Wilk who were fleeing right before the match properly started, and cramming the band members' guts into four mayonnaise jar-like glass pots (one for each of them) - Zack and Tom (with one arm cut off) being killed in this process.

*In the animated tv show [[Pelswick]], a band called Rage Against The Washing Machine is mentioned.

*RATM is often credited for performing the theme song for famed WWF/E stable D-Generation X but the song was actually performed by a group known as The DX Band.

*In the game [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]], "Killing In The Name" is featured on Radio X.

*In the [[MC Lars]] song The Dialogue, featuring [[Ill Bill]], Ill Bill says, "It made me wanna Rage Against the Machine, pick up a guitar, and scream into the mic like [[Run-D.M.C.]].".

==Notes==
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==Trivia==
* Rage Against the Machine performed a live show on August 29th, 1997 at the New World Music Theater in Tinley Park, Ill. August 29, 1997 is the date of the original [[Judgment Day]] in the popular [[Terminator]] movie series. In the movies, man's own defense systems turns against them and thus starts a war that pits man against machine.

==Discography==
===Albums===
*''[[Rage Against the Machine (album)|Rage Against the Machine]]'', [[1992 in music|1992]]
*''[[Evil Empire (album)|Evil Empire]]'', [[1996 in music|1996]]
*''[[The Battle of Los Angeles (album)|The Battle of Los Angeles]]'', [[1999 in music|1999]]
*''[[Renegades (album)|Renegades]]'', [[2000 in music|2000]]

===Singles===
* "[[Killing in the Name]]", 1993 (also featured on the ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'' soundtrack)
* "[[Bullet in the Head (song)|Bullet in the Head]]", 1993
* "[[Bombtrack (song)|Bombtrack]]", 1993
* "[[Freedom (Rage Against the Machine song)|Freedom]]", 1994
* "[[Bulls on Parade]]", 1996
* "[[People of the Sun]]", 1996
* "[[Down Rodeo]]", 1996
* "[[Vietnow]]", 1997 Featuring [[Chuck D]]
* "[[No Shelter]]", 1998 (also featured on the ''[[Godzilla (1998 film)|Godzilla]]'' soundtrack)
* "[[Guerrilla Radio]]", 1999 (also featured on the ''[[Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2]] soundtrack)
* "[[Sleep Now in the Fire]]", 2000 (also in ''[[Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle]]'' but not included on soundtrack)
* "[[Testify (song)|Testify]]", 2000
* "[[Calm Like A Bomb]]", 2000 (also featured on ''[[The Matrix Reloaded]] soundtrack)
* "[[The Ghost of Tom Joad (RATM song)|The Ghost of Tom Joad]]", 2001
* "[[Renegades of Funk (RATM song)|Renegades of Funk]]", 2002
* "[[How I Could Just Kill a Man]]", 2002 (A remake of the song from Cypress Hill)

===U.K. Chart History (Singles and Albums)===
''Highest Chart Positions''

Killing In The Name: #25

Bullet In The Head: #16

BombTrack: #37

Bulls On Parade: #8

People Of The Sun: #26

Guerilla Radio: #32

Sleep Now In The Fire: #43

'''Rage Against The Machine''': #17

'''Evil Empire''': #4

'''''The Battle Of Los Angeles''': #23

'''Renegades''': #71


===Live albums===
[[Image:RATM - live.jpg|thumb|200px|RATM were known for their energetic live shows.]]

*''[[Live & Rare (album)|Live & Rare]]'', [[1998 in music|1998]]
A collection of live performances from all over and two newly recorded songs, never released anywhere else.
*''[[Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium]]'', [[2003 in music|2003]]

===Music videos===
* "Killing in the Name"
* "Bombtrack"
* "Bullet in the Head"
* "Freedom"
* "Bulls on Parade"
* "Memory of the Dead (Land and Liberty)" - a poem by Zack de la Rocha.
* "People of the Sun"
* "No Shelter"
* "Guerrilla Radio"
* "Sleep Now in the Fire", 2000, directed by [[Michael Moore]].
* "Testify", 2000, directed by [[Michael Moore]].
* "Renegades of Funk"
* "How I Could Just Kill a Man"

===DVDs===
*''[[Rage Against the Machine (video)|Rage Against the Machine]]'', 1997
Contains footage of concerts in Irvine, CA, at the Rock Am Ring Festival 1996, and at the Pink Pop Festival 1994. It also features music videos for five Rage songs from their first two albums. Also contains a poem by Zack de la Rocha entitled "Memory of the Dead" and the song, "The Ghost of Tom Joad".
*''Revolution USA'', 1999
This unauthorized DVD contains the biographies of the band members and interviews with Tom Morello and music journalists, but does not contain any live video clips, nor actual Rage Against the Machine music.
*''[[The Battle of Mexico City]]'', 2000
Rage's first concert in Mexico. Features songs from Rage's first three albums and a cover of "Zapata's Blood".
*''[[Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium]]'', 2003
RATM's last performance at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in [[Los Angeles, CA]] on September 13, 2000. It features long-time friends [[B-Real]] and [[Sen Dog]] for a cover of [[Cypress Hill|Cypress Hill's]] "How I Could Just Kill A Man". The DVD also contains the music videos "Bombtrack" (previously unreleased) and "How I Could Just Kill A Man" (by way of a career spanning video and photo montage,) footage from the band's free Democratic National Convention concert on August 14th, 2000, as well as two bonus concert performances of "People of the Sun" and "Know Your Enemy".

==Awards==
* '''Best Metal Performance (1997) - "Tire Me" ([[Grammy]] Winner)'''
* Best Hard Rock Performance (1997) - "Bulls on Parade" ([[Grammy]] Nominee)
* Best Hard Rock Performance (1998) - "People of the Sun" ([[Grammy]] Nominee)
* Best Metal Performance (1999) - "No Shelter" ([[Grammy]] Nominee)
* '''Best Hard Rock Performance (2001) - "Guerilla Radio" ([[Grammy]] Winner)'''
* Best Hard Rock Performance (2002) - "Renegades of Funk" ([[Grammy]] Nominee)

==External links==
===Official===
*[http://www.ratm.com/ The official Rage Against the Machine site] containing a [http://www.ratm.com/new2/timeline/index.html band timeline]
*[http://www.axisofjustice.org/ Axis of Justice] Tom Morello and [[Serj Tankian|Serj Tankian's]] activist website
*[http://www.zdlr.net/ Zack de la Rocha Network] (Active RATM Forum and discussion)

===Other===
*[http://www.ratm.net/ tabulature and more]
*[http://www.lyricspedia.com/rage-against-the-machine-lyrics/ Rage Against The Machine lyrics] at lyricspedia.com
*[http://www.musicfanclubs.org/rage/ 'the pretty incomplete RATM site'].
*[http://www.accidentprone.com/ragefaq/ The unofficial RATM FAQ]
*[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:4d57gjqrj6iw Homepage at] [[Allmusic.com]]
*[http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/bio/index.jsp?pid=20064&cr=artist&or=ASCENDING&sf=length&kw=rage%20machine RATM Profile at Billboard.com]
* [http://www.sweepyto.net/Cours/?p=0#R Sweepyto Guitar Lessons, Tom Morello tabs with vids]

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