Artist(s) Rage Against The Machine Album The Battle of Los Angeles Label Music On Vinyl Label Info MOVLP062 Media Info 180g Mastered - Thanks to aksman Kind Vinyl 24-Bit/96kHz Sound Stereo Genre Rap Metal Year 1999 Artwork MR Scans Media Fileformat .flac File Host FileFactory Uploaded Fileformat .rar Download Size 990 Mb 44.1kHz Version No Allmusic.com rating: 4 out of 5 Stars The Battle of Los Angeles is the third studio album by Rage Against the Machine. It was released on November 2, 1999, and over three years after their second studio album, Evil Empire. Between Evil Empire and Los Angeles, the band released a live album, titled Live & Rare. The song "Calm Like a Bomb" is featured in the credits of The Matrix Reloaded. The videos to "Sleep Now in the Fire" and "Testify" were directed by documentarian Michael Moore. Both "Testify" and "Guerrilla Radio" are also featured in the video game Rock Band 2, being on-disc and downloadable, respectively. The album debuted at #1 on Billboard's Top 200 selling 420,000 copies its first week. That week saw a busy CD release schedule. The album denied Mariah Carey's highly anticipated album the chance to open at #1. "Guerrilla Radio" was featured in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, albeit heavily edited on the Nintendo 64 version, and it is also heavily edited on "Madden NFL 10". Both Time and Rolling Stone named it the Best Album of 1999. It was listed as #53 in SPIN Magazine's 100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005. The album cover art was an original artwork by the LA Street Phantom aka Joey Krebs aka Joel Jaramillo, a well-known Los Angeles artist who has exhibited at numerous galleries in Los Angeles, New York City and throughout the United States. Despite claims to the contrary, the image was not inspired by images from the 1992 street riots of LA or from images of Munich, but by the band's own music and words, and represents one in a series of images of the artist's work, which can also be seen on various street murals in Los Angeles. The Battle of Los Angeles was heavily influenced by the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. "Testify", "Sleep Now in the Fire", "Voice of the Voiceless", among other songs, include direct quotes from the novel, and mention key Orwellian terms in the lyrics. Saul Williams sampled "Born of a Broken Man" for his song "Om Nia Merican", which appeared on his 2001 album Amethyst Rock Star. In 2003, the album was ranked number 426 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Track listing All songs written and arranged by Rage Against the Machine and all lyrics by Zack de la Rocha. Side A "Testify" – 3:30 "Guerrilla Radio" – 3:26 "Calm Like a Bomb" – 4:58 "Mic Check" – 3:33 "Sleep Now in the Fire" – 3:25 "Born of a Broken Man" – 4:41 Side B "Born as Ghosts" – 3:21 "Maria" – 3:48 "Voice of the Voiceless" – 2:31 "New Millennium Homes" – 3:44 "Ashes in the Fall" – 4:36 "War Within a Breath" – 3:36 Personnel - "Guilty Parties" Rage Against the Machine – Producer, Art Direction Zack de la Rocha – Vocals Tim Commerford (credited as "Y.tim.K" and "tim.com") – Bass Brad Wilk – Drums Tom Morello - Guitars Kevin Dean – Assistant Engineer Nick DiDia – Engineer Russ Fowler – Engineer Kevin Lively – Assistant Engineer Stephen Marcussen – Mastering Brendan O'Brien – Producer, Mixing Aimee MacAuley – Art Direction Roger Sommers – Assistant Engineer Danny Clinch – Photography Andrew Garver – Digital Editing Ryan Williams – Engineer Michael Parnin – Assistant Engineer Monique Mitzrahl – Assistant Engineer Tim Harkins – Assistant Engineer Karl Egsieker – Assistant Engineer Erin Haley – Production Coordination Cheryl Mondello – Production Coordination German Villacorta – Assistant Engineer Joey Krebs – Artwork Sugar D – Engineer Steven Tirona – Photography Eye Cue - Photography Technical Log RCM Hannl 'limited' with "Rotating Brush" Music Hall MMF 9.1 Turntable Tonearm: Pro-Ject 9cc evo with Pure Silver Wires Cartridge: Nagaoka MP-500 Brocksieper Phonomax (Tube Phono PreAmp) E-MU 0404 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface Interconnections : Silent Wire NF5 Wavelab 5 recording software iZotope RX Advanced 1.21 for redbook convertion Vacuum cleaning > TT > Belari > Laptop > Wavelab 5.01 (24/96) > manual click removal > analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21) No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.