Battle Of Los Angeles/Renegades - Rage Against The Machine

Advantages: Innovative, hard hitting and ferocious
Disadvantages: Unrelenting

...and equality). It was produced by Garth 'GGGarth' Richardson who has also worked with L7, Kerbdog, The Melvins, Rise Against and Skunk Anansie. Four years later they released 'Evil Empire', a much darker and heavier album. 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. It features less innovation and more melody from the guitar and more production on the vocals. Released in 1999 just one day off the seven year anniversary of their debut album 'Battle for Los Angeles' was a final testament to their genius with notable affiliations, not least with top producer Brendan O'Brien. 'No Shelter' featured on Godzilla soundtrack, 'Guerrilla Radio' on Tony Hawkes Pro Skater 2 and promotional videos for 'Testify' and 'Sleep Now in the Fire' were... Read review

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Advantages: RATM, thought provoking, fantastic musicianship
Disadvantages: RATM are no more

...The Battle of Los Angeles is Rage Against the Machine's 3rd album following on from the success of their self-titled debut and sophomore success "Evil Empire". Once again the trademark RATM sounds and aesthetics of Tom Morello's guitars, Zack de la Rocha's vocals, Tim Commerford's basslines and Brad Wilk's drums are featured on a fantastically well thought out and produced album. Opening with "Testify" the album fits somewhere between the band's other 2 albums and sounds as if RATM had really found their place within the music arena at the time they recorded this album. Following testify is "guerilla radio" the biggest single success of the album and a song which sums up RATM in their finest. The song is full of standard RATM guitar, bass and drum stylings as well as having a strong basis for the lyrics, in this case the wrongful... Read review

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Advantages: Zack De La Rocha manages to become more enraged and lively every album
Disadvantages: Not quite as good as the first album (self titled), but better than the second (evil empire)

...Once again Rage Against The Machine have made another excellent contribution to our CD collection. While this may not QUITE be their best record to date, it is definitely close behind their amazingly original and groundbreaking debut album (Rage Against The Machine). Finally Rage are being given some well deserved media attention, and most of you may well know their recently released songs such as ‘Guerilla Radio’ and ‘Sleep Now In The Fire’. While these are two of the best tracks on the album, the remaining selection are by no means poor, featuring other brilliant tracks such as, ‘Calm Like A Bomb’, ‘Mic Check’, ‘Testify’, and many others. Personally I would say that there are no poor songs on the whole album, and the record as a whole accurately reflects the unique Rage vibe. Zack De La Rocha manages to become more enraged every... Read review

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