Anyone who was at Pinkpop in 1994 will not soon forget the performance of Rage Against The Machine. The Los Angeles group turned the festival grounds into a sea of pounding and jumping people, blasting all 70,000 'Fuck you! I won't do what you tell me! ' roared along. Rage Against The Machine's debut album had been released two years earlier and was a heady mix of funk, punk, rap and rock. A
… real musical Molotov cocktail, thanks also to the highly flammable political lyrics. Twenty years later the debut will be released again and it has hardly lost any power. Bombtrack, Killing In The Name and Bullet In The Head benefit from Tom Morello's inventive guitar playing, Zack de la Rocha's furious raps and Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford's funk-of-two unity. The album is still an assault on your eardrums. The ten beech songs also leave the generation that did not receive the band firsthand on the ground. (PdK)more
