Black Sabbath ↔ Rage Against the Machine
Black Sabbath and Rage Against the Machine are directly connected through shared musician Brad Wilk.
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Black Sabbath
📍 Birmingham, England
The fathers of heavy metal. Tony Iommi’s downtuned tritone riffs, Geezer Butler’s driving bass and dark lyrics, Bill Ward’s jazz-metal swing, and Ozzy Osbourne’s eerie delivery created the genre.
Brad Wilk
Drums (studio)
Rage Against the Machine
📍 Los Angeles, California, United States
Revolutionary Los Angeles political rap-metal pioneers driven by Zack de la Rocha’s searing fury, Tom Morello’s inventive turntable-emulating guitar wizardry, and the powerhouse rhythm section of Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk.
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