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Bombtrack

"Bombtrack"
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Single by Rage Against the Machine
from the album Rage Against the Machine
Released June 20, 1993
Format CD, 7", 12"
Genre Rap metal, alternative metal
Length 4:04
Label Epic
Writer(s) Tim Commerford, Zack de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Brad Wilk
Producer(s) Garth "GGGarth" Richardson, Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine singles chronology
"Bullet in the Head"
(1993)
"Bombtrack"
(1993)
"Freedom"
(1994)

"Bombtrack" is a song by American rap metal band Rage Against the Machine that opens their self-titled debut album. Like most of Rage Against the Machine's songs, the song's lyrics discuss social inequality, proclaiming that "landlords and power whores" were going to "burn". The riffs were composed by Rage Against the Machine bassist Tim Commerford. The song is one of three on the album in F# along with "Know Your Enemy" and "Fistful of Steel". Impressed by their song, Rage Against the Machine named it Bombtrack in reference to hip hop terminology where the word 'bomb' means 'the greatest', making the song title literally mean 'the greatest track'.

A music video was released, depicting support for the Peruvian Maoist guerrilla organization Sendero Luminoso and its leader Abimael Guzman. The video clip did not appear on the group's first home video, citing Rage's first altered political opinion. In 2003, the video finally appeared as bonus material on their Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium DVD.

The single artwork features Cuban photographer Alberto Korda's famous image of Che Guevara, Guerrillero Heroico. A mirrored version of the iconic two-tone portrait by Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick (T-shirt version). Perhaps the song's most notable appearance outside of the music industry would be its appearance in Oliver Stone's controversial film Natural Born Killers, when Mickey breaks out of his prison cell in search of Mallory.


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