Tom Morello - The Atlas Underground (Cd And LP Box Set With Book)

Creators: ; Kevin Mills; ; Carl Restivo.Photographers: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; .After years of recording and collaborating with a dizzying number of musicians, prolific axeman Tom Morello combined his inspired guitar wizardry and revolutionary's spirit with a genre smorgasbord of surprises on The Atlas Underground. Billed as a genre of music that hitherto hadn't existed, The Atlas Underground blends Morello's guitar firepower with pounding EDM beats, cutting social justice rhymes, and urgent rock vocals, like a modernized union of the Judgment Night and Spawn soundtracks from the '90s. In regards to Morello's own sprawling discography, this set honors the spirit of outspoken protest from his dusty Nightwatchman work, but veers closer to the cross-genre aggression of Street Sweeper Social Club and Prophets of Rage. Considering his past work with the Prodigy ("One Man Army") and the Crystal Method (Tweekend, Drive), as well as his penchant for guitar-as-turntable scratching, it sho