- Calm Like a Bomb
Infobox Single | Name = Calm Like a Bomb
Artist =Rage Against the Machine
from Album = The Battle of Los Angeles
Released = 2000
Format = CD, 7", 12"
Genre =Funk metal ,rap rock
Length = 4:58 mins
Producer = Rage Against the Machine
Brendan O'Brien
Last single = "Testify"
(2000)
This single = "Calm Like a Bomb"
(2000)
Next single = "The Ghost of Tom Joad"
(2001) |"Calm Like a Bomb" is a song by American band
Rage Against the Machine , off their third album "The Battle of Los Angeles". It is notable as a display ofguitarist Tom Morello 's creative use of awhammy pedal . The song was featured in the end credits of 2003 movie "The Matrix Reloaded ". Like many of RATM's songs, the song's lyrics discusssocial inequalities . The song also features a reference toEmiliano Zapata .Tim Commerford uses a combination of a home-made overdrive pedal and theJim Dunlop 105Q Bass Wah pedal on his bass throughout the song. In "Rolling Stone " magazine's feature article this past year on the new "Guitar Heroes," a section was printed about Tom Morello, and Calm Like a Bomb was cited as the prime example of his skill and fame on the guitar. He has occasionally referred to the extremely high whammy-pedal effects used in songs such as this as "pterodactyl sounds."Track listing
#"Calm like a Bomb"
External links
* [http://www.ratm.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.axisofjustice.org/ Axis of Justice] Tom Morello andSerj Tankian 's Activist Website "Axis Of Justice "
* [http://www.vietnow.org/ Vietnow.org] Rage Against The Machine news resource and forum
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