Evil Empire

This article covers the crossover album Evil Empire . For the term coined by Ronald Reagan, see Empire of Evil .

Evil Empire
Rage Against the Machine studio album
Publication (s)	April 16, 1996
Label (s)	Epic Records ( Sony BMG )
Format (s)	CD , LP , cassette
Genre (s)	Crossover , alternative metal
Title (number)	11
running time	46 min 52 s
occupation	Singing : Zack de la Rocha Guitar : Tom Morello Electric bass : Tim "Bob" Commerford Drums : Brad Wilk
production	Brendan O'Brien
chronology Rage Against the Machine (1992) Evil Empire The Battle of Los Angeles (1999)

Evil Empire is the second album by the crossover band Rage Against the Machine . It was released in April 1996, almost four years after their debut album .

background

The title is a saying of the former US President Ronald Reagan , the Soviet Union as an " evil empire " ( Engl. "Evil Empire") called.

The overall sound of the album differs from that of the other three albums. Rap and rock mix here, too , but not the heavy metal riffs as in the previous and the following albums , but rather in eight of the eleven tracks the rhythm and rap singing of Zack de la Rochas in the foreground. This new style received mixed reviews. The song Bulls on Parade was the first single, followed by four more releases.

Evil Empire was No. 1 on the Billboard charts and the song Tire Me won a 1996 Grammy for Best Metal Performance.

The booklet enclosed with the album contains a three-page photo showing a number of books, for example about the guerrilla war by Che Guevara , the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by writer James Joyce , a book by Jean-Paul Sartre , Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion , the novel Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller , the Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell, a book on the Black Panther movement , Hegemony and Revolution by Antonio Gramsci , The Marx-Engels Reader by Robert C. Tucker , Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum , The Wretched of the Earth by psychiatrist Frantz Fanon , The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by ethnologist Carlos Castaneda, and Race for Justice by criminal lawyer Leonard Weinglass on the Mumia Abu-Jamal legal case .

The songs Year of the Boomerang and Tire Me appear in the soundtrack to the film Higher Learning - The Rebels .

Track list

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Evil Empire   DE 2 04/22/1996 (21 weeks)   AT 2 04/21/1996 (16 weeks)   CH 4th 04/21/1996 (13 weeks)   UK 4th 04/27/1996 (7 weeks)   US 1 05/04/1996 (74 weeks)

Singles

Bulls on Parade   UK 8th 08/07/1996 (2 weeks) People of the Sun   UK 26th 09/01/1996 (1 week)

1. People of the Sun - 2:30
2. Bulls on Parade - 3:51
3. Vietnow - 4:39
4. Revolver - 5:30
5. Snakecharmer - 3:55
6. Tire Me - 3:00
7. Down Rodeo - 5:20 am
8. Without a Face - 3:36
9. Wind Below - 5:50
10. Roll Right - 4:22
11. Year of tha Boomerang - 3:59

Singles

• 1996: Bulls on Parade
• 1996: People of the Sun
• 1996: Tire Me
• 1997: Down Rodeo
• 1997: Vietnow

Web links

• Thomas Erlewine: Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire. Review. at Allmusic (English)
• Review of Rolling Stone (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chart & Awards Rage Against the Machine - Billboard Albums on Allmusic (English)
2. ↑ Chart & Awards Rage Against the Machine - Grammy Awards at Allmusic (English)
3. ↑ Evil Empire in the Official UK Charts (English)
4. ↑ Rage Against the Machine in the German album charts ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Musicline.de; Retrieved March 25, 2009 
5. ↑ Rage Against the Machine in the Swiss hit parade. Hitparade.ch; Retrieved March 25, 2009
6. ↑ Rage Against the Machine in the Austrian charts. Austriancharts.at; Retrieved March 25, 2009
7. ↑ Rage Against the Machine on the US Billboard 200 Albums Charts