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14 unusual facts about Rage Against the Machine


Adam Dutkiewicz

For this album he took on the job of co-producer alongside Brendan O'Brien (known for his work with AC/DC, The Offspring, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, Incubus, Mastodon, and Stone Temple Pilots).

Alan Forbes

He developed the signature icon of The Black Crowes, as well as posters, symbols and album artworks for many other bands, including Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against the Machine, The Offspring, White Stripes, AFI, Dinosaur Jr. and The Misfits.

Brandon Bolmer

The band was considered to possibly be the youngest to go through Warped Tour, and garnered similarities to Rage Against the Machine and Deftones.

Chevolution

Chevolution also discusses the usage of Che's image by Rage Against the Machine on the 1992 single, “Bombtrack”.

It has a running time of 1 hour and 26 minutes.The film provides commentary from a variety of perspectives including: actors Antonio Banderas and Gael García Bernal, the author of “Che Guevara a revolutionary life” Jon Lee Anderson, the American rock band Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, photographers Jose Figueroa and Laborio Naval, artists Shepard Fairey and Jim Fitzpatrick, and long-time friend Alberto Granado.

DC3 Music Group

In the past three years the company has produced many projects for artists such as Godsmack, Creed, Chickenfoot, Rage Against the Machine, Staind, Alter Bridge, Slash, Guns N' Roses, Three Days Grace, Stone Temple Pilots, 3 Doors Down, Daughtry, and many others.

DigiTech Whammy

A noteworthy user of the Whammy is Tom Morello, who with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave used the Whammy to create otherwise impossible effects.

Groove Family Cyco

"Do What I Tell Ya!" criticizes the band Rage Against the Machine, who are well known for expressing anti-corporate, left-wing politics in their lyrics, but are signed with Epic Records, a subsidiary of Sony, a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation.

Joe Lanham

The station's format consisted mainly of a mix between classic and modern rock, with heavily rotated artists including Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rush, Stone Temple Pilots, Rage Against the Machine, and Tool.

Kenyatta family

Kenyatta was the uncle of Ngethe Njoroge, Kenya's first representative to the United Nations and the great uncle of Tom Morello, the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine.

Kerem Özyeğen

The group was strongly influenced by bands such as Nirvana, Sex Pistols, Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine.

Khalid Abdul Muhammad

Rage Against the Machine later paraphrased this quote in the lyrics of "Freedom" (Rage Against the Machine, 1992) with the line, "Brotha, did you forget your name?"

Rage Against the Machine's 1994–1995 Tour

Rage Against the Machine took some time out of the studio in 1994 and 1995 to travel to Europe and play some festival shows.

Sinners Never Sleep

The album was recorded in Los Angeles earlier this year with producer Garth Richardson, known for his production work with band such as Biffy Clyro and Rage Against the Machine.


Antipop

The album features several well-known guest musicians and producers, including Tom Waits, James Hetfield (of Metallica), Jim Martin (former member of Faith No More), Fred Durst (of Limp Bizkit), and Tom Morello (of Rage Against the Machine).

Drop D tuning

New technique of playing power chords introduced by these early grunge bands was a great influence on many artists, such as Rage Against the Machine and Tool, making by the same drop D tuning typical practice among alternative metal acts the band Helmet used the tuning a great deal throughout their career which would later be influential to many Alternative metal and Nu Metal bands .

Estadio Bicentenario de La Florida

The stadium has also been used for concerts by System of a Down, Primus, Rage Against the Machine, The Mars Volta, The Black Eyed Peas, Green Day, Rammstein among others, and also hosted the concert of Faith No More's The Second Coming Tour after over 30,000 people signed an online petition for the band to close the tour in Chile.

Graciela Iturbide

The image of "Mujer Ángel" was used by the politically charged metal group Rage Against The Machine for their single "Vietnow" in 1997.

Mike Muir

Muir has criticized the band Rage Against the Machine, who are well known for expressing anti-corporate, left-wing politics in their lyrics, but are signed with Epic Records, a subsidiary of Sony, a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation.

Mumia Abu-Jamal in popular culture

KRS-One, Chumbawamba, Rage Against the Machine, Unbound Allstars, Saul Williams, Anti-flag, Man Is the Bastard, Immortal Technique and Snoop Dogg are among artists to have authored those references.

Night Verses

In multiple interviews the band has referenced Tool, Isis, Fiona Apple, At the Drive-In, Opeth, Björk, Deftones, DJ Shadow, Nirvana, Meshuggah, Rage Against the Machine, various Trip hop Artists and the film Beyond the Black Rainbow as influences that have had a heavy impact on their sound.

Our Word Is Our Weapon

"Somewhere between the passionate analysis of Ricardo Flores Magón, and the poetic fury of Eduardo Galeano, lie these most powerful and essential communiques of the new Mexican Revolution. Possibly the most influential collection of writings upon my musical and political perspective." — Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine.

Stadio Alberto Braglia

Artists that have performed at the stadium include Sting, Prince, Simple Minds, U2, Pink Floyd, Guns N' Roses and Rage Against the Machine, among others.

The Blackest Beautiful

The album starts with the flagship single Banshee (Ghost Fame), which is a "unholy collision of Refused and Rage Against the Machine".

The Fabled City

Serj Tankian (of System of a Down), Shooter Jennings, and Perry Farrell (of Jane's Addiction) are featured guests on the album, which was produced by Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave).

The Wanton Song

Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello has often cited "The Wanton Song" as a major influence for the verse riffing for "Vietnow".