Saturday, March 24, 2012



Rage Agains the Machine also known as Rage or RATM is an American band founded by Tom Morello, Zack de la Rocha, Tim commerford and Brad Wilk. Their characteristic style is of rapmetal, a fusion between hip hop, funk and heavy metal.  That’s why the band was one of the first on the international favourites successes, becoming very popular in the cossover world.

An important thing about the band’s identity is the leftist political ideology against capitalism, globalization and war that has taken the band to appear on many occasions all over the United States. Also it make join the ideology by the thoughts.               

“Killing in the Name” was the first single released as the lead single from the album “Rage
Against The Machine” of 1992 reaching the 25th place in the UK Singles Chart.

This song’s lyrics reference the revolution against racism and the allegation that some members of US police forces are members of the Ku Klux Klan organization, whose symbol is the burning cross.  That caused the song to be recognized as the symbol single of the band.

People might understand this message like a way to express the anger or maybe as a critique of society and even events. But it clearly depends on the political thought.

The song make us think that we have to do something against war and all the bad things that make this a displeasing world, it also invite us to appear and manifest our “anger”.

The message has being sent to show and tell the people the bad things that happens in the world, maybe we know about it but at the time of the song we become aware and we can relate those facts to the facts of every day.

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  2. "Agains"???? cossover world? Atia, you need to proofread what you read before submitting anything. I loved your choice, but I think the information is incomplete or misplaced: technical info is missing (the year the song is produced should have been in the first paragraph).
    I miss a link between what we see in video (rough cuts, clumsy transitions, etc.) with what we listen to (profanity, heavy music, sharp guitars).
    You write almost at the end: "People might understand this message like a way to express the anger or maybe as a critique of society and even events." You should go beyond the obvious , don't you think?

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    1. I also wrote : The message has being sent to show and tell the people the bad things that happens in the world, maybe we know about it but at the time of the song we become aware and we can relate those facts to the facts of every day.

      but i don't know why the letters are in black

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