“KILLING IN THE NAME”
Rage Against the Machine
THIS TIMELESS ANTHEM of social angst and enormously popular breakout song from RATM’s 1992 debut album elevated innovative axman Tom Morello to modern guitar god status, but not for the usual reason. Eschewing the shred credo that was de rigueur for rock players at the time, Morello took a different but equally compelling approach to creating musical drama, focusing instead on crafting an arrangement that features the use of drop-D tuning and the DigiTech Whammy pedal to perform powerful, in-the-pocket ensemble riffs and a uniquely angular, otherworldly solo that sonically darts to the stratosphere like an alien spaceship.
