When LA rap metal quartet Rage Against The Machine burst onto the scene with their spectacular self-titled debut album in 1992, they seemed to point to a revolutionary new future for guitar music. Frustratingly, the record’s success wasn’t immediately capatalised on, with a full four years passing before its follow up, Evil Empire, arrived in 1996.
Although it has been re-evaluated as RATM’s most underrated and experimental album, Evil Empire never truly captured people en masse in the same way that their debut did. At the end of the touring cycle, the members of Rage went their separate ways to do other things.
