Biography
The American group Rage Against The Machine performed in the style of rock and hip-hop, subsequently this genre was called Rapcore. Attention to themselves, the musicians attracted the left political statements directed against imperialism, capitalism and globalization of America. All of this they express in texts imposed on aggressive music, which performed with highly fury.The history of creation and composition
The history of Rage Against The Machine began in 1991. Each of the participants is in the team from the first days of its existence, for all time the composition never changed. The first who entered it is the American rapper, the author of the songs and the public figure of Zac de la Rocha.
Embed from getty imagesHe was born and lived all his life in California, but has a Mexican origin. Since childhood, he was fond of music, began to play on the stage as a solo artist. In this role managed to achieve some heights, the guy's concerts attended many, and his work was always positive feedback. In the group it was put on vocals.
With Tom Morello Zack met on his own speech in Los Angeles. It was then that rapper attracted the attention of the grandee nephew of the first president of Kenya and the son of the Kenyan revolutionary. Tom comes from New York, education received at Harvard, and then moved to Latin America.
Embed from getty imagesThere, the guitarist for the first time and acted as part of the Lock Up group. His mother Mary Morello created an organization that opposes censorship in music, and his father held the post of permanent representative of Kenya under the UN.
After short discussions, young people decide to unite in the team, but before they need to find other musicians. Then Zack is associated with a school friend - a bassist Tim Comfect. He was born and grew up in California, the mother of the musician worked as a school teacher, taught mathematics, and his father was busy in the field of aerospace engineering.
Embed from getty imagesIn addition to him, five more children were brought up in the family. When the boy studied in the 5th grade, his mothers were diagnosed with brain cancer, his father divorced her and entered into a new marriage, Tim began to live with him and in the same period began to master the game on the bass guitar. In 2001, Komorford married, with his wife he has two common children, adheres to vegetarianism.
The peculiarity of Tima as a musician is his guitar game, the guy does not use the mediator, as a "working tool", he has enough fingers. Zack knew the skill and professionalism of the comrade, and therefore without any questions offered to join. So in the group Rage Against The Machine there is a bassist.
Embed from getty imagesIt remained to find only the drummer, the guys filed an advertisement to the local newspaper, which Brad Wilk responded. Since childhood, Wilk lived in Chicago, and Misiroval, moved to South California. At the age of 13, began to master the game on the drums and after a year he received the first drum installation. Before becoming a member of the group, he did not communicate on stage in front of the broad audience, so he received the first popularity of Brad in Rage Against The Machine.
Music
The first experience of the speeches before the public, young musicians received at a party at the friend of Komorford, and soon in the same conditions they recorded a debut democassset, there were 12 songs. And since the artists did not have contracts with recording studios, they organize a fan club on their own and 5 thousand copies of cassette records are sold to it, they made it at their own expense.By the "Sarafan Radio" about the work of beginner artists, the Epic Records label soon found out, which suggested them to sign a contract and start joint activities. Before the release of the first album took place, the team introduced the Single to the Single "Killing The Name". In many ways, thanks to him, the plate "Rage Against The Machine" had an incredible success. Also the hit was the song "Wake Up".
The disc quickly fell on the 1st place in Billboard Heatseekers, only in America it was possible to sell 3 million of his copies, for which he received platinum status from RIAA. The songs contained a political promise, to write such texts of guys inspired by the Irish hunger strike in 1981 Bobby Sands and the founder of the Levoradical Organization "Black Panthers".
The following 3 albums were not allowed to wait. "Evil Empire" came out in 1996, "Live & Rare" - in 1998, and "The Battle Of Los Angeles" - in 1999. They were met with the same hype, every year the musicians won more fans. They contributed to the tracks "Bulls on Parade", "Guerrilla Radio" and "Calm Like A Bomb", overnight became hits.
It came to the point that the New York Stock Exchange was forced to locate the doors, when in 2000 the musicians took the clip to the Sleep Now in the Fire song on Wall Street. On the street there was a huge crowd of fans, which caused the fear of everyone who was near.
The last of the listed albums showed that the guys are still ready to climb on the barricades and fight. Like other plates, "The Battle of Los Angeles" musicians were recorded, exclusively using the sounds of the guitar, bass guitars and drums. In their opinion, it gives music more drive and energy.
Almost all concerts promised the teams. They visited the speeches dedicated to the leader of the American Indian Movement Leonard Peltira, as well as a dark-skinned journalist and political activist Mummy Abu-Jamale. In the texts, the current political system was constantly condemned and although they themselves were often subjected to censorship, it did not stop musical revolutionaries.
In 1993, Rage Against The Machine is sent to the LOLLAPALOOZA Festival, where they make one of the bright provocations against US censorship. Young people came to the scene completely naked, and their mouths were missed by scotch. Almost half an hour they stood in full silence under the guitar Fidbeck. On the chest of each was scarked by the letter PMRC - the designation of the company for censorization of music. In order not to disappoint fans, after a couple of days they staged another concert, where everyone came. In this case, the fee for the entrance was not charged.
Further in their biography began regular tours around the cities of America. Despite causing behavior, almost every second concert they had a charitable, reversed funds were sent to the liberation of any innocently convicted political prisoner or to the Tibet Liberation Aid Fund. In 1996, they also performed in Russia, since they had fans and among the Russian-speaking population, and the photo of the group on the poster hung in the rooms every amateur of heavy music.
In 2000, the Rage Against The Machine disgrace appears the "Renegades" album, which is fully consisting of pots. Zack expressed a huge discontent about his exit and threatened the departure from the group. The rest of the musicians did not adhere to the look of colleagues, and the listeners still saw the disk.
After that, the vocalist made a threat and left the team. As for fans and for the remaining participants, it became a big surprise, but they were not confused, they united with a vocalist Chris Cornell of the newly broken SoundGarden team and created a new group called Audioslave.
Embed from getty imagesInformation about the reunion of Rage Against The Machine in the previous composition became known in early 2007. Morello told fans that this is primarily due to the need to participate in political battles to the US presidential elections. At the end of April, they again appeared before the listeners at the Koachella festival in California. In 2010, there was a free concert in London, and then performed in Italy, the Netherlands and Ireland. In the fall, visited Argentina, Chile and Brazil.
Relations inside the group The musicians preferred not to advertise, but after reuniting the activity of their work slept somewhat. In 2010, in an interview, Zak said that the compositions for the new album, which will be released in 2011, are already recorded. But on the designated time it did not happen. I did not give any questions about reporters about the next disk. But in the same 2011, the team managed to create his own festival, where other famous groups were opposed to them.
In honor of the 20th anniversary of the Rage Against The Machine in 2012, the first album of musicians was reissued, but the new did not come out. And in 2014, the drummer Wilk said at all that, perhaps, at the festival, their conscientious performance was the last.
A year later, they released a concert drive from the London concert of 2010. In 2016, rumors appeared about the return of the group on the stage, but this did not happen. But a little later, Morello, Wilk and Komorford announced the creation of a new supergroup prophets of Rage, to which Chuck De and B-Real also joined.
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Now
Probably, now the project called Rage Against The Machine has suspended activities, but officially musicians did not declare it. The last time about the group was heard in November 2018, then they rebuffed the Live & Rare plate. In 2019, there were no news about them, the artists focused on working in the Prophets of Rage group in a new composition.
Discography
- 1992 - "Rage Against The Machine"
- 1996 - "Evil Empire"
- 1998 - "Live & Rare"
- 1999 - "The Battle Of Los Angeles"
- 2000 - "Renegades"
Clips
- 1992 - "BombTrack"
- 1996 - "People of the Sun"
- 1996 - "Bulls on Parade"
- 1999 - "Guerilla Radio"
- 1999 - "Testify"
- 2000 - "The Ghost of Tom Joad"