There’s plenty of times we’ll be fucking around with something and we’ll do something on the guitar that isn’t normal, noise-wise or whatever, and it’s about simply having the courage to follow that and not do it in the way it’s necessarily meant to be done or playing the guitar in the way it’s meant to be played what you’re doing is interesting so you fuck with it some more. The songs are unforgettable and also act as a benchmark and signpost. When you create something that powerful it stands as a reference point. You can play Rage Against The Machine on a shovel.Why did Rage Against The Machine stand naked onstage at Lollapalooza in 1993?.Story Behind the Song: Killing In The Name by Rage Against The Machine.The Top 10 best Rage Against The Machine Songs.How many albums come along that that happens, let alone in a genre as shred-heavy as metal? It’s the genre with the biggest riffs, and then someone comes along with stupidly massive riffs but also redefined how that instrument can be used – and that’s just the guitar. The fact Tom Morello used the guitar on that record in such a way that they had to put a disclaimer on to say there weren’t synths on it! It’s bonkers. The way the guitar is used in that album, it’s up there on Hendrix’s level. It’s shot off on so many branches and influenced so many different parts of metal, especially with the guitar playing. “There are albums that come along and reach a pinnacle in something that’s established and then there’s albums which completely shift a musical landscape if you look at what that album did it was completely genre-bending and against any trend that was going on at that time and it did it in such a way that it’s created something timeless.
If you look at the impact that the album had on metal music, guitar music and aggressive music it was influential to everything, and it is heavy as fuck. I don’t know if it even qualifies as a heavy metal album but that’s because I don’t know what it qualifies as. But I picked Rage Against The Machine’s self-titled album.
Winston McCall: ”It’s hard to choose just one album from the last 50 years of metal, because there’s obvious choices.
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