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When Tom Morello states, "I'll never turn, I'll never bend. I'm with you now until the end", you know without a shadow of a doubt, no truer words were ever spoken. One can imagine him hunkered down in the dark waiting with infinite patience for the final hour. He is a smoldering, but loyal presence behind or in the forefront of everything he believes in. He burns with a slow flame, a flame that endures and ignites insidiously. There is a solemn, gospel quality to...
There's a song by "The Nightwatchman" I almost have to avoid while in public. It's called "No One Left". Hard not to have my eyes get kind of misty when I hear it. It makes me hurt for the victims of American policy here and abroad, while at the same time feel intense anger at those who are to blame for where we are now.
he would have written this album.
No, but seriously, one of the shitty things about most people writing dark folk music is that they tend to be too introspective to see that the world is burning and the bosses are brandishing the torches. Tom Morello has thankfully not been afflicted with this disease. This album works because for the most part, Morello is happy to let the message take center stage rather than the delivery. And the message is simple, striking and beautiful: Ordinary people can...
This is my opinion.
Please remember that like assholes everyone has one so you don't have to take mine personally it's just mine and doesn't have to be yours.
To start with I am not a fan of Rage Against the Machine. I liked some of Tom's guitar parts but I always felt like the music they wrote never made the transition from riffs to songs. Like a meal with a lot of good sauce but little of the stuff the sauce is suppose to come with.
Audioslave was okay by me because I...