Up until the sixth track, “Hold the Line” ( hmm, where have I heard that title before?) featuring grandson, everyone can follow in Tom and his buddies’ steps. Even though Chris sounds a little tired and though Morello constantly tries hard to overrun him with his guitar techniques, it comes closest among these songs to have any kind of a soul.
I love Chris Stapleton’s raspy whiskey voice and I really enjoyed his album Starting Over from last year, so there’s no surprise that I like “The War Inside” the most out of these twelve tracks. At least, we finally got a tasty little guitar solo suggesting that the guitarist on this record is in fact the same guy who introduced us to Rage Against the Machine’s furious, relentless, and politically conscious rap-metal back in 1992, and the same man who ended up at an impressive number forty when Rolling Stone ranked their 100 Greatest Guitarist of All Time.Īny casual rock radio station-listener will notice the similarities to Rage Against the Machine’s big breakthrough hit “Killing In the Name” and the third track on the record, “Get the Party Started”, featuring Yorkshire metalcore-group Bring Me the Horizon, as Oliver Sykes sings “ I’m so happy I could die right now” in a similar way to how Zach de la Rocha sings “ F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me.” Any casual rock radio station listener will also hear how the chorus is a complete rip-off of Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive.” It must be on purpose, right? It was a better idea to get Eddie Vedder and Bruce Springsteen into the same studio, but a bad idea to cover AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” – a song immune to improvement – rather than coming up with something interesting. I’m not sure if “Harlem Hellfighter” is his take on 100 gecs’ hyper-pop, but a brief check on YouTube comments and other online music forums suggests that his fans certainly aren’t ready for it.
Whoever thought it was a good idea to open Tom Morello’s second solo album in the Atlas Underground Fire series with autotuned vocals – and I’m afraid that this was Morello himself – were obviously wrong. Save Our Souls (featuring Dennis Lyxzén of Refused)ġ2.Tom Morello – ‘The Atlas Underground Fire’ Album Review Charmed I’m Sure (featuring Protohype)ġ1. The Achilles List (featuring Damian Marley)ġ0. The War Inside (featuring Chris Stapleton)Ĩ. Driving to Texas (featuring Phantogram)ĥ. Let’s Get The Party Started (featuring Bring Me The Horizon)Ĥ. Highway to Hell (featuring Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder)ģ. Tom Morello – The Atlas Underground Fire tracklisting:Ģ. The Atlas Underground Fireis out October 15th. Sarah has one of the most haunting and beautiful voices of anyone singing today, and Josh’s production is stylistically so fresh and eerie…” Will they descend into the abyss or will they find redemption? “Driving To Texas,” really shows the breadth of the music you’ll hear on this record. The guitar solo needed to feel like a vengeful angel who has come down to decide the fate of the protagonist.
This song is creepy as hell –a dark journey, a struggle for a tortured soul. “I’d worked with Josh from Phantogram on my first Atlas Underground album and I was thrilled when he and Sarah reached out about collaborating on this record. Turns out Tom was just as surprised at the final outcome as we are: ‘ Driving To Texas‘ features multi-instrumentalist duo Phantogram, consisting of Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter, who, combined with Morello, create this alluring piece of music that’s one part love song, one part soul crushing experience when you take a step back and listen to what’s being sung towards you. Following on from the drop of his collaborative cover of AC/DC‘s ‘ Highway to Hell‘ alongside Eddie Vedder and Bruce Springsteen, the one and only Tom Morello is back with the next collaboration from his forthcoming album The Atlas Underground Fire and it’s a haunting slow burn that’s gonna make your road trips last that little bit longer.
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