CLEVELAND, Ohio -- If you haven’t bumped some Rage Against the Machine in the past two months or so, there’s a chance you’re lacking a soul. The band’s music was made for these harsh times, even though some of it stems back nearly 30 years ago.
RATM preceded the rap-metal boom of the late 1990s and, thus, influenced most of it. But what separated Rage from the critically derided likes of Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit was the band’s expert musicianship and frontman Zack de la Rocha’s hard-hitting rhymes.