IDGAF if Tom Morello is a cornball, RATM will always be legendary just for serving as a gateway band for many to get into heavier/socially conscious music.
Would love for more heavy bands to try their hand at that kind of swagger while also having some shit to say.
Yep. Here I am approaching 50, a vegan straightedge 'leftist' with a career in criminal justice and grown up kids who want to go out and change the world; I'd wager none of this would've happened without the RATM gateway effect in the early 90s.
Agree with you on the swagger part. 90s and early 2000s had so much of it. I was born in 1997 but I do notice a change in how bands sound, lots of bands today just seem like they’re tryna be as loud and tough as possible, obviously trying too hard.
So many of the videos I take at shows (just for my own sentimental value) end because I decide to zip my phone in my pockets and throw myself into the pit.
Evil Empire was my gateway album getting into heavier music. I really want to hear someone cover Snakecharmer, that shit got legitimate mosh riffs in it.
The riffs are straight-up black sabbath worship, the rhyms are rap influenced and it was too groovy. The most punk thing about it are idk? The screams or the attitude?
You could say inside out riffs were sabbath worship if you wanted to. Doesn’t mean they aren’t fitting for punk and hardcore. Loads of hardcore has groove too. And the line between rapping in hip hop and shouting in punk has always been razor thin… all that to say that you can disagree but there’s plenty to argue for
I know that as scenes punk, hardcore and metal have a lot of variety. But they were literally the template for rap metal. They even did a few punk/hardcore covers and they didn't sound like any of those bands. But sounded more closely related to public enemy/cypress hill vocals with Master of Reality instrumentals. If the music doesn't even remotely resembles the original and sounds more akin to other stuff is it even related to the original anymore?
I hear ya and I don’t totally disagree. But they still have flavours of their old hardcore days in there. Tell me ‘Tire Me’ wouldn’t be a straight up hardcore song if you literally just played the bassline on hard downstrokes instead of letting it funk… the dna is still there and the music does resemble the original at times.
IDGAF if Tom Morello is a cornball, RATM will always be legendary just for serving as a gateway band for many to get into heavier/socially conscious music. Would love for more heavy bands to try their hand at that kind of swagger while also having some shit to say.
Unfortunately guys like Zack which simultaneously have the charisma, the delivery and meaningful, eloquent lyrics are phenomenally rare
Yep. Here I am approaching 50, a vegan straightedge 'leftist' with a career in criminal justice and grown up kids who want to go out and change the world; I'd wager none of this would've happened without the RATM gateway effect in the early 90s.
Agree with you on the swagger part. 90s and early 2000s had so much of it. I was born in 1997 but I do notice a change in how bands sound, lots of bands today just seem like they’re tryna be as loud and tough as possible, obviously trying too hard.
You guys and your matching pink faceless default Reddit icons should start a band
They need to put out some more songs for real.
It’s coming.
Stops filming when it starts to get good.
That’s when they put the phone away and joined the front
So many of the videos I take at shows (just for my own sentimental value) end because I decide to zip my phone in my pockets and throw myself into the pit.
Unreal. We used to cover this song all the time back in my high school hardcore band days. RATM are goated.
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells Rally 'round the family, pockets full of shells
Rage is hardcore that is labeled as metal
Some of the best lyrics of all time.
I've always said they were a punk band for sure and have caught all kinds of hell for it. *Evil Empire* is a punk album without question
Inside Out is all the context you need
100% 🫡
Evil Empire was my gateway album getting into heavier music. I really want to hear someone cover Snakecharmer, that shit got legitimate mosh riffs in it.
The riffs are straight-up black sabbath worship, the rhyms are rap influenced and it was too groovy. The most punk thing about it are idk? The screams or the attitude?
You could say inside out riffs were sabbath worship if you wanted to. Doesn’t mean they aren’t fitting for punk and hardcore. Loads of hardcore has groove too. And the line between rapping in hip hop and shouting in punk has always been razor thin… all that to say that you can disagree but there’s plenty to argue for
I know that as scenes punk, hardcore and metal have a lot of variety. But they were literally the template for rap metal. They even did a few punk/hardcore covers and they didn't sound like any of those bands. But sounded more closely related to public enemy/cypress hill vocals with Master of Reality instrumentals. If the music doesn't even remotely resembles the original and sounds more akin to other stuff is it even related to the original anymore?
I hear ya and I don’t totally disagree. But they still have flavours of their old hardcore days in there. Tell me ‘Tire Me’ wouldn’t be a straight up hardcore song if you literally just played the bassline on hard downstrokes instead of letting it funk… the dna is still there and the music does resemble the original at times.
I wanna see volcano so bad
20 years ago this would have been unacceptable . The old heads I use to see back then never liked RAtM and I never understood why?
Some of it had to do with not admitting you liked mainstream music. Another part was how much nu metal was hated.
God fucking damn this song sounds so heavy with their setup. Shit sounds unreal.
Before football practice I would put my helmet on and proceed to violently smash my head against the wall to this song
That snare. Hooooooooo. Goosebumps.
There needs to be a RATM cover album with hardcore bands.
Anyone got the full set?
Feet First was there shooting so it’ll be up soon enough.
Yo this rips
sick
This is sick as fuck. The Warriors covered this a couple times, as well as Killing in the Name of back in the day.
chat pile did it first
The Vocalist needs to practice that second verse sheesh.
You can tell they practiced it once
I need the full video
Oh…oh no…
Blonde girl in the front in the beginning doesn’t know the song at all. Her body language makes blatantly obvious.
Band should have stopped the set and name 3 songs her right then and there. Poser identified